THE WATERS: & OTHER BEDTIME STORIES FROM THE PAST, PRESENT & THE FUTURE captures a lifetime of creative evolution, distilling decades of visual and narrative inquiry into a singular, razor-sharp collection. Drawing on a distinguished career that began in the 1970s as an underground cartoonist for the NOLA Express, the work marries the raw, iconoclastic energy of underground comix with a refined, literary sensibility. (Max also taught cartooning at SVA at the same time as Art Spigelman of "Maus" fame.)