From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms.
 
When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design, the speech went viral, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. Now we all can enjoy his sly wisdom in a manifesto that reminds us, no matter what eld we choose, to embrace chaos, be nosy, and outrage outdated critics.

Waters notes with irony that he is eminently qualified to be a commencement speaker because he was suspended from high school, then kicked out of college—yet he is a success doing what he loves best. Anyone embarking on a creative path, he tells us, would do well to realize that pragmatism and discipline are as important as talent, and that rejection is nothing to fear. Waters advises young people to eavesdrop, listen to their enemies, and horrify us with new ideas. In other words, make trouble.

Illustrated with slightly demented line drawings by Eric Hanson, Make Trouble is a one-of-a-kind gift, the perfect playbook for gaming the system by making the system work for you.

NOTE: Copies of this book come signed by John Waters.

Author: John Waters
Illustrator: Eric Hanson
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Pages: 80pp
Size: 5 x 7.5
Notes: hardcover, b/w, signed
Release Date: April 11, 2017
ISBN: 978-1616206352