Ray Troll’s new
book Spawn Till You Die: The Fin Art of
Ray Troll is an exuberant plunge into the fantastic realities of sea
creatures and prehistoric animals that come alive with scientific realism and
his quirky sense of humor.  For more than four
decades, this celebrated Alaskan artist has been luring, hooking, and landing
fans around the world with his mesmerizing renditions of the inhabitants of
Planet Ocean, past and present. His art is featured in the nation’s major
natural history museums including the Smithsonian, in galleries, and in books,
as well as on immensely popular T-shirts. Part natural history adventure and
part underground comic, his work depicts beautiful and accurately drawn fish of
all kinds, Northwest Coast totems, Freud and Darwin, fossils, resurrections of
extinct animals, and much more.

 Troll’s art is deeply thought provoking
(pun intended) but also simply fun to experience and never far from an inside
joke he seems to be sharing with everyone. Some of his pieces are amusingly
tongue-in-cheek, others are beautifully surrealistic and evocative of the
interconnectedness of life on Earth, and his grandly composed major pieces are
brilliant, inspiring panoramas of the natural world. His whimsy and attention
to detail in his renderings of fish and other aquatic creatures has earned him
a devoted following of scientists, anglers, and people who just like a good
laugh. Welcome to the fishy, funny, inspiring art of Ray Troll.