"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
“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
“A collection of gang ephemera guaranteed to blow your mind beyond whatever you’re on as you peruse it.” - Mike McBeardo McPadden, author of Teen Movie Hell and Heavy Metal Movie
“…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
“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
“A collection of gang ephemera guaranteed to blow your mind beyond whatever you’re on as you peruse it.” - Mike McBeardo McPadden, author of Teen Movie Hell and Heavy Metal Movie
“…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