"This book is magisterial. It'll have to be on reserve in libraries or it will be immediately stolen." - John M. Hagedorn, professor of Criminality, Law and Justice at University of Illinois at Chicago, and author of The Insane Chicago Way, People and Folks and A World of Gangs
"A marvelous book...vital, coherent and necessary." -- Tony Fitzpatrick, acclaimed Chicago artist, actor and writer ("Best iconic Chicago personality now that Studs is gone.")
"Decidedly haunting" - Steven Heller, graphic design historian, former art director of the New York Times, and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at the School of Visual Arts
“If you are at all interested in the history of gang graffiti, street graphics or punk/hip hop stylings, GET THIS BOOK! It's amazing. It’s chock full of gang cards and crude snapshots of gang life, and fills in an enormous amount of Chicago street gang history. Essential! Kudos to the authorz.” - Art Chantry, graphic designer and author of Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design
“…Chicago gangs in the past were so Medieval in scope and behavior…reading the book was much like watching Game of Thrones: the rivalries, the conflicts, the posturing.” - Miriam Downey, The Cyberlibrarian
"A marvelous book...vital, coherent and necessary." -- Tony Fitzpatrick, acclaimed Chicago artist, actor and writer ("Best iconic Chicago personality now that Studs is gone.")
"Decidedly haunting" - Steven Heller, graphic design historian, former art director of the New York Times, and co-chair of the MFA Designer as Author Department at the School of Visual Arts
“If you are at all interested in the history of gang graffiti, street graphics or punk/hip hop stylings, GET THIS BOOK! It's amazing. It’s chock full of gang cards and crude snapshots of gang life, and fills in an enormous amount of Chicago street gang history. Essential! Kudos to the authorz.” - Art Chantry, graphic designer and author of Art Chantry Speaks: A Heretic's History of 20th Century Graphic Design
“…Chicago gangs in the past were so Medieval in scope and behavior…reading the book was much like watching Game of Thrones: the rivalries, the conflicts, the posturing.” - Miriam Downey, The Cyberlibrarian