Spartan Holiday No. 1: Shanghai Pictorial

Dispatches from the road and notes on visual culture. The first in DB Dowd's series of illustrated 40-pagers describing his a mix of memoir, history, and cultural reflection. Richly illustrated, designed, and art directed. Dowd, narrating in character as "Professor Red," takes the reader to Shanghai to investigate China's version of nineteenth-century illustrated journalism. The story explores Dianshizai Huabao, an illustrated newspaper supplement launched in 1884. "Shanghai Pictorial" establishes the Spartan benchmark of gorgeous design and illustration.