*Pre-order* The Comic Book History of the Cocktail: Five Centuries of Mixing Drinks and Carrying On (David Wondrich and Dean Kotz) *Signed*

Expected September 23, 2025. Available for pre-order now! Signed with a specially mounted bookplate.  Personalized copies will be available after our author event with David on November 12. Please let us know at check out if you'd like to wait for a signed copy (and if you'd like it personalized!).   A graphic novel history of the cocktail—from prehistoric wassail to our current boozy renaissance—featuring 20 recipes by drinks historian, Daily Beast columnist, and award-winning author David Wondrich.There's no better writer to tell the colorful history of cocktails than David Wondrich, widely considered to be one of the world's foremost authorities on cocktails and a driving force behind the early-twenty-first-century revival in the classic American art of mixing drinks.In The Comic Book Story of the Cocktail, Wondrich teams up with comics artist Dean Kotz to trace the evolution of the cocktail. Beginning with the ancient days of wassail and hypocras (mixed drinks based on wine and bee