Off the Wall: The Best Graffiti Off the Walls of America

by Robert Wilson

OFF THE WALL! The Best Graffiti Off The Walls Of America will make you laugh... make you think... and may even inspire you to write on walls.

Robert Wilson and Ken Frankel have scoured the nation's bathrooms for 15 years to find the best graffiti in America. The words of wit and wisdom they uncovered reveal the vernacular of our era... the unedited thoughts written from the heart (or lower).

Designed and hilariously illustrated by Bob Salo, each page of OFF THE WALL looks as if it were lifted right off a rest room wall. You'll laugh through ten chapters covering topics of universal interest and anguish including graffiti from bars, the workplace, school, military bases and more. ( It will take more than one reading to discover all the hidden humor in this very funny book.)

You'll see how the solitude of a bathroom stall has become our nation's sounding board for angry young men venting their rage... budding comics rehearsing their wit... and for new ideas gathering critical mass. It could said that the rest room wall is the last great medium for pure self-expression. And, you may even be one of the legions of anonymous authors immortalized within the pages of OFF THE WALL.

We hope this collection will satisfy the curiosity of women who wonder what really happens in the sanctity of a men's room stall, and we hope it will serve as a reminder for men who have forgotten what writing on walls is all about. And let's face it, ultimately, this book is for anyone looking for a good chuckle.

82 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Robert Wilson has written thirteen novels including the Bruce Medway noir series set in West Africa and two Lisbon books with WW2 settings the first of which, A Small Death in Lisbon, won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999 and the International Deutsche Krimi prize in 2003. He has written four psychological crime novels set in Seville, with his Spanish detective, Javier Falcón. Two of these books (The Blind Man of Seville and The Silent and the Damned) were filmed and broadcast on Sky Atlantic as ‘Falcón’ in 2012. A film of the fourth Falcón book was released in Spain in 2014 under the title La Ignorancia de la Sangre. Capital Punishment, the first novel in his latest series of pure thrillers set in London and featuring kidnap consultant, Charles Boxer, was published in 2013 and was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. This was followed by You Will Never Find Me in 2014. The third book in the series, Stealing People, will be published in 2015. Robert Wilson loves to cook food from all over the world but especially Spanish, Portuguese, Indian and Thai. He also loves to walk with dogs…and people, too.