In the 1960s, Adult Coloring Books Were Radical Texts

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The 'Executive Coloring Book' they show some images from seems to be 'A Coloring Book For Lawyers' here: http://pdf.textfiles.com/posters/lawyercoloringbook.pdf - pretty fun to look through.

> How many buttons does your phone have? Mine has five.

This is of course will ring most familiar to HN readers: http://thecomputerboys.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/progra...

La plus ça change…

I was hoping this would be something like the Fortran Coloring Book (link below) - although it is indeed funny to see what remains the same 40 years later.

http://www.seas.gwu.edu/~kaufman1/FortranColoringBook/Colori...

I like the lawyer one better, because if you wanted to, you could actually color it, but not really for the fortran.

Color me surprised.

Makes me think about the "for dummies" series of books.

Lol. I had something very different in my head re "Adult" colouring book. Perhaps, "colouring books for adults".

Ah, if you'd read the article you would have seen a link to a Cunt Coloring Book [0].

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Cunt-Coloring-Book-Tee-Corinne/dp/0867...

It's just the continued infantilization of adults.

Coloring in for adults is actually surfacing as a popular app niche too - https://play.google.com/store/search?q=coloring%20books%20fo...

I like the Security Bell.

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