FROM THE PUBLISHER

“It’s not against any religion to want to dispose of a pigeon.” Tom Lehrer, from “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park”

“They’re rats with wings.” Woody Allen, from Stardust Memories

No one is certain when pigeon-loathing began, but the anti-pigeon phenomenon has by now insinuated itself into every medium of popular culture. Whether in film, television, music, or advertising, pigeon eradication has become an accepted way to tug at a person’s funny bone. With Canceled Flight: 101 Tried and True Pigeon Killin’ Methods, A.V. Jones has created an Anarchist Cookbook of comic relief for the worldwide pigeon-hating population.

Conjured from Jones’ twisted brain, 101 surefire methods for speeding a pigeon’s journey to the grave are laid out for even the novice pigeon-despiser with lists of required materials and step-by-step guidelines. Every method has been brilliantly illustrated with the help of more than eighty-five of today’s hottest street-inspired painters, illustrators, designers, and photographers. Whether visualized in the pre- or post-death stages or at termination, each piece faithfully represents Jones’ methodology with incredible energy and originality in “The Butcher,” a Dalek Space Monkey picks up a cleaver to “chop, chop, chop till he can’t chop no more,” and Struggle, Inc’s “The Permanent Press” illustrates how two scorching hot irons can make a toasty pigeon sandwich in no time flat. An exhaustive compilation of execution, Canceled Flight is sure to provide the pigeon-killing technique perfect for you.

Canceled Flight features some of the hottest young artists working today including Peter Sutherland, Ryan McGinness, Richard Colman, Derrick Hodgson, kozyndan, David Choe, Dustin Amery Hostetler, Jon Burgerman, and Nago Richardis, among others.

Canceled Flight- The show and the book.