In contrast to many artists’ scrapbook work, and especially Edwin Morgan’s and Isa Genzken’s, Ray Yoshida’s is steadfastly mono-material.  Yoshida, who was making art and teaching in Chicago throughout the latter half of the last century and beyond, ‘encouraged his students to collect images, as one might collect stamps, in order to develop patterns of “looking”’ (https://www.mmoca.org/artist/ray-yoshida).  Not surprisingly, Yoshida was an avid, eclectic collector.  In the scrapbook, however, and many related works on paper, he focusses exclusively on comic-book imagery.

Ray Yoshida – spread from scrapbook 196-?

And at times, this work crystalises further as an anatomy of comic-book tropes:

Ray Yoshida – first page from scrapbook 196-?

The connections to Pop Art are palpable, and indeed, Yoshida acknowledged Lichtenstein’s recourse to ‘non-traditional’ sources for art-materials (https://vaaam.tome.press/chapter/ray-yoshida/).

The Smithsonian’s digitised version of Yoshida’s scrapbook can be found here: https://www.si.edu/object/AAADCD_item_15546