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The Subversively Comical Adult Coloring Books Of The Early 1960s

WORDS Posted: December 30, 2015 7:41 am

“‘This is my suit. Color it gray or I will lose my job,’ reads a caption next to a picture of a man getting dressed for work” in 1961’s Executive Coloring Book. “The coloring books that followed managed to cover, between them, a selection of the decade’s neuroses: national security, the red scare, technology, sex, mental illness. … There were coloring books that made fun of communists and coloring books that made fun of people who were scared of communists.”

WORDS Published: 12.28.15

Read the story in The New Republic Published: 12.28.15

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