Lost in "Lost in Space"
Mark Cotta Vaz has authored nine books, his first beingSpirit in the Land(NAL/Signet, 1988), a chronical of mysticism in the United States.  His works on Popular Culture range fromTales in the Dark of Knight(Ballentine Books, 1989), the authorized fiftieth birthday celebration of the Batman character, toIndustrial Light & Magic: Into the Digital Realm(Ballentine Books, 1996), a look at the second decade of the famed effect house.  As a board member of the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, he curated the 1992 show "Visions of the Floating World," one of the most comprehensive exhibits ever of original Japanese comics art.