Imbibe Magazine | 04.05.2026 20:17
The recent tour for David Wondrich’s newest book, The Comic Book History of the Cocktail, included at least one stop you wouldn’t call usual for a cocktail historian: Comic Con at the Javits Center in New York City. There, he and illustrator Dean Kotz signed books for cosplaying buyers dressed as Boba Fett and Sailor Moon. “That was insane,” Wondrich says. “But that was just people buying books to buy books. These weren’t people who knew anything about cocktails.” Wondrich could conceivably qualify as a comic-book superhero. Call him Captain Cocktail.
