Standard practice for Panjabi MC, who has been conjuring up imaginary collaborations since he was a youth.
And their first collaboration, Imaginary Fred (HarperCollins, £12.99), more than delivers on the promise, bringing out the very best of these great complementary talents.
That's a spoiler, though, worth forgetting until after seeing Ms. Maricich, who performs and records as the one-woman band the Blow, play her new material, which takes the form of imaginary demos for such a collaboration, and which shaped her show at Joe's Pub on Friday night.
In the above video, Legoman and Mandril discuss the origin of their collaboration and the genesis of their imaginary city, and the video below offers a preview of the viewing experience.
Those after more challenging illustrated fiction should try The Song from Somewhere Else (Bloomsbury), a collaboration between AF Harrold, author of The Imaginary, and artist Levi Pinfold.
His mysterious portraits of imaginary women drawn with graceful, razor-sharp pencil lines look like collaborations among Ingres, Picasso and the American folk artist Ammi Phillips.
Hugh's collaboration with Xu Bing, Book from Sky, is an interpretation of 4000 imaginary Chinese characters.
Conceived in collaboration with LVMH and AD, the show allowed 13 designers to create "imaginary journeys through the arrangement of interiors".
Featuring "Imaginary Beings: Mythologies of the Not Yet" The collection was sponsored by Objet and created in close collaboration with W. Craig Carter (Department of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT) and Joe Hicklin (The Mathworks).
Produced in collaboration with Evil Twin partners Taylor Steele and Todd DiCiurcio, the short film is a visual trek through an imaginary wooded universe, populated by mythical characters and gorgeous Aussie landscapes.
