Marcie hans biography

Over the past few years, adult coloring books have become popular as a form of art therapy. Aided on by an increasing "Peter Pan" adult demographic market, along with social media virality, some books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide.

The adult coloring book concept, however, is not exactly new. During the 1960s, bookstores exploded with all kinds of satirical and subversive coloring books geared towards adults that offered a mocking look at American society, Laura Marsh writes for The New Republic.

But reading through Marcie Hans, Dennis Altman & Martin A.

Cohen’s “The Executive Coloring Book” isn’t as much relaxing as it is a biting indictment of 1960s corporate culture, Marsh writes.

The first coloring book made expressly for adults, “The Executive Coloring Book” was published in 1961.

While most of the drawings—featuring a businessman getting ready to go to work in a big office building