Local artist Elizabeth Graeber has illustrated a book on the eternal question Should I Get Bangs? She’s brought to life a Guide to Cocktails. She’s drawn all kind of pies for an almanac of, well, pie. But for her latest project, Graeber turned to a particularly personal topic: redheads.

“I can relate to all the redheads. The anesthesia—that’s true,” she says, referring to a tidbit noted in A Field Guide To Redheads that redheads often have a lower pain tolerance. “I went to the dentist and I needed more anesthesia.”

A few years ago, Graeber started a project where she drew a famous redhead each day, which eventually became the basis for the nearly 200 portraits that make up the new book. And she didn’t stick to real-life people either, drawing the Weasley family and Pippi Longstocking with as much aplomb as Bette Midler and Vincent Van Gogh.

Many of the pen, ink, watercolor, and gouache paint portraits feel familiar because Graeber situated them quite intentionally. “I wanted to show part of their personalities—like Miss Frizzle, she’s next to a space meteor which is also red and she’s also wearing a space dress because her outfits always change,” Graeber says.

As one might imagine, there’s plenty of whimsy, with an entry titled A Tale of Two Chuckies: Chucky (“carries a knife, terrifying”) and Chuckie (“shoes always untied, terrified”). Another features the “Real Housewives of Hanna-Barbera” (Wilma Flinstone and Jane Jetson). And the 80s gets its own page, with everyone from Molly Ringwald and Cyndi Lauper to My Little Pony and Cabbage Patch Kids making an appearance.

Peppered between are historical anecdotes—perhaps some of which contribute to today’s continued ginger bias—like the ancient Greeks believing that redheads turn into vampires when they die.

Some of Graeber’s other work can be found around town, including murals at Harper Macaw’s chocolate factory and the Georgetown outlet of Alice + Olivia. She didn’t leave Washingtonians out in the book, either, with a series on seven presidents that count among the tribe. But there are few local redheaded references as endearing as Rusty, the red panda. “He’s one of my favorites,” she says.

Find A Field Guide to Redheads at Politics and Prose, Riverby Books, Crafty Bastards, or online (if you buy it directly from Graeber’s website, it comes with an “official redhead fan club membership card.”)