A is for Anarchist

by woods, billy; musgrove, m.

• ISBN13: 9780789341457
• ISBN10: 078934145X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-03-14
• Publisher: Universe

Summary

A sardonic spin on the ABC book, A is for Anarchist is a sharp knife in a drawer full of safety scissors.

Wryly written by critically acclaimed rapper billy woods and sublimely illustrated by artist m. musgrove, A is for Anarchist upends the traditional ABC format with earnestness that belies its irreverence. Anarchist takes modest ideas, like E is for Energy and G is for Ghosts, and flips them into incisive commentary on modern life and the state of the world. Also, it has to be the only alphabet book with annotated footnotes and a Nas reference.

Author Biography

m. musgrove is a painter, comic artist, illustrator, and amateur animator. billy woods is an artist who defies easy categorization. He was born in the United States but spent much of his childhood in Africa and the West Indies as the second child of a Jamaican intellectual and a would-be Marxist revolutionary. On the mic, woods is no less a conundrum, possessed with versatile flows and an ability to tackle topics other artists wouldn’t imagine and bring unique perspectives to the familiar ones.