"Manages to reach to the limits of bad taste!"-Abbie Hoffman
Buy This Book was one of the first graphic novels, but, unlike Maus and most of the others that followed, is not in a narrative/sequential form. It's innovative design is more reminiscent of Marshal McLuhan's "Medium is the Massage", perhaps crossed with a bit of MAD magazine. Abbie Hoffman really DID characterize it as above, and the Small Press Review called it "profoundly moral." Includes a visual excursion through the 1970s in author/artist/designer Pete Wagner's political cartoons. The meat of the book is about "post-Sixties political activism" and advocated a kind of surreptitious revolution using humor rather than violence. The author's friendship with Yippie leader Abbie Hoffman was an influence on both the title and the content.