{"title":"Adult Coloring Books","description":"\u003ch1\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAdult Coloring Books (For People Who Peaked in Detention)\u003c\/h1\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eI used to think coloring books were for kids and people at the dentist's office. Then I made one that said something horrible in bubble letters surrounded by flowers, and it turns out that's exactly what a lot of adults have been waiting for. So now I make these too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eThese are dark humor coloring books, the kind with cynical one liners and questionable line art instead of unicorns and mandalas. Same relaxing, repetitive, zone out activity your therapist probably recommended, just aimed at something slightly more unhinged than a garden. Some pages are funny. Some pages are mean. A few are both, which is honestly my favorite combination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eGood as an adult humor gift, good as a white elephant option that doesn't need batteries, good for the friend who says they're \"not really a reader\" but will absolutely sit there for an hour coloring in a swear word with a gel pen. No context needed. No age appropriate excuses either.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eGrab a set, grab some markers, and color like nobody's watching, because if they were, this wouldn't be the book you'd have chosen.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ratchet-pussy-colouring-book-signed-copy","title":"Ratchet Pussy Colouring Book (Signed Copy)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eRatchet Pussy Colouring Book... The Interactive Adult Colouring Experience For A Cat Who Has Seen Some Things\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eRatchet Pussy is back. She's strutting down the alley with that pussy swagger, matted and proud, and now she's waiting for your colour choices. The dumpster-diving diva has been translated into colouring pages, which means you get to decide what shade of \"living on the edge\" looks right for a cat who has no collar, no chain, and no apologies for any of it. The smelly rash is there. The alley is there. The scraps she's working for are there. All of it is waiting for your artistic contribution to a story that is definitely about a cat.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eThis adult colouring book takes the original Ratchet Pussy and renders every verse in illustrated colouring-page format, because apparently the adult colouring book format has no restrictions on subject matter and this particular cat's biography deserves the hands-on treatment. The meditation of colouring meets the chaos of Ratchet Pussy's life choices, and the combination is either deeply therapeutic or the opposite of therapeutic, and either outcome is the correct adult colouring experience when the subject is a cat this committed to her lifestyle.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eThis Book IS For:\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cul\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eFans of the original Ratchet Pussy who want the colouring book extension of a cat story that was always destined for this format\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAdults who use colouring as a relaxation tool and want to test how relaxed they can stay while colouring a cat named Ratchet Pussy\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAnyone who appreciates an adult colouring book that doesn't pretend the \"adult\" in \"adult colouring book\" has to mean botanical illustrations\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eGift-givers who want to combine the activity gift with the gag gift in a single item that works on both levels\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eThis Book Is NOT For:\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cul\u003e\r\u003cli\u003ePeople who bought adult colouring books for their mental health benefits and are protective of what they expose those benefits to\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eReaders who feel cats deserve to be represented in colouring books in a more flattering light\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAnyone who hasn't read Ratchet Pussy and will need the full context to understand why she's coloured the way she is, which is any colour you choose, because this is your artistic expression now\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eColouring purists who feel the genre peaked with celestial maps and abstract geometric patterns\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eAppropriate For:\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cul\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eBachelorette parties where the activity portion of the evening benefits from having something to do with their hands and also laugh at\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eGag gifts for the cat owner whose cat's behavior is best described as \"ratchet\" and who will recognize the taxonomy immediately\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eWhite elephant exchanges where you want to give something usable and also completely unhinged\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAnyone who already owns the original and needs the version where they can contribute their own artistic decisions to the alley narrative\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eWhy Buy This\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eThe adult colouring market has given you every option: forests, galaxies, intricate patterns, botanical collections, architecture, animals in dignified poses. None of those options are Ratchet Pussy prowling the alley at whatever hour Ratchet Pussy keeps. This fills the gap. You have the markers. You have the coloured pencils. You have the question of what colour best represents a cat who eats what she eats and does what she does and feels no particular way about any of it. The answer is yours. The pages are waiting.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eBuy it for someone who will use it. Buy it for someone who will display it. Buy it for someone who has every other adult colouring book and needs the one that the other adult colouring books looked at and said nothing. Ratchet Pussy talks. Every page tells you where she's been. Pick up your pencils. The alley is right there. She's already out there working. The page just needs your colour choices.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bradgosse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50239510839599,"sku":"B0D8BZ53HC","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/1962\/9871\/files\/B0D8BZ53HC.png?v=1720546039"},{"product_id":"baby-in-a-hot-car-colouring-book-signed-copy","title":"Baby in a Hot Car Colouring Book (Signed Copy)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eBaby In A Hot Car: Colouring Book... The Interactive Version Of A Story That Did Not Need To Be Interactive But Here We Are\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eBetty has a baby. Betty has a casino. Betty has made a prioritization decision that the child services system will later describe with clinical precision and that this colouring book describes with illustrated pages waiting for your artistic input. Baby Sam is in the car. The sun is not kind. Tom the guard is doing his rounds. The story is the same as it has always been. The difference is that now you get to colour it in, which adds a participatory dimension to the narrative that neither Betty nor baby Sam requested but that the adult colouring book market has enthusiastically accommodated.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eThis adult colouring book takes the darkest parenting cautionary tale in the catalog and gives it the therapeutic colouring treatment that the adult colouring industry has applied to mandalas, nature scenes, and now apparently this. The irony is that colouring is supposed to be relaxing. The subject matter is the opposite of relaxing. That gap... between the meditative act of colouring and the content being coloured... is where this book lives, and it is comfortable there, and your pencils are going to have opinions about what colour to make Betty's terrible decision.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eThis Book IS For:\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cul\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eFans of adult colouring books who have exhausted the botanical and celestial genres and are ready for something with a narrative arc\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAdults who find colouring therapeutic and want to test whether that holds when the subject matter is specifically this\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAnyone who enjoyed the original Baby In A Hot Car and wanted a version where they could contribute artistically to the proceedings\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eGift-givers who want to combine the functional gift of a colouring book with the experience of a gag gift in one item\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eThis Book Is NOT For:\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cul\u003e\r\u003cli\u003ePeople who bought their adult colouring books for actual stress relief and are protective of the genre's therapeutic reputation\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eReaders who need their colouring content to stay in the botanical-floral-celestial lane where the subject matter does not have a child in it\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eBetty, who has enough problems without this documentation existing in a format you can hang on the refrigerator when you're done\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAnyone whose relationship with cars and summer heat is currently complicated for personal reasons\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eAppropriate For:\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cul\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eBachelorette parties where the activity portion of the evening involves colouring books and someone brought this one\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eWhite elephant exchanges where you want to give something interactive and also hilarious and not a gift card\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eGag gifts for the person who owns every adult colouring book and thinks they've seen the full range of the format\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003cli\u003eAny occasion where a regular funny book isn't quite hands-on enough and you want the recipient to be part of the story\u003c\/li\u003e\r\u003c\/ul\u003e\r\u003ch4\u003eWhy Buy This\u003c\/h4\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eThe adult colouring book market exists because people need to do something with their hands while processing the ambient stress of being alive. Usually that something is a mandala or a forest scene. This book offers a different kind of processing: the colouring-as-coping approach applied to a story about a mother, a casino, a very hot car, and a baby who made it because Tom was doing his rounds. You can colour Tom heroically. You can use whichever shade you feel best represents Betty's specific category of bad decision. The pencils are your editorial voice.\u003c\/p\u003e\r\u003cp\u003eIt costs less than a colouring supply kit and comes with the story already illustrated. Buy it for someone who has the markers and needs the content. Buy it for someone who wants to test the format's limits. Buy it for yourself and decide what colour Betty's shame is. The casino lights are waiting. Baby Sam is waiting. Tom is on his rounds. The page is blank. Not for long.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bradgosse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50239511003439,"sku":"B0D8CLDXC7","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/1962\/9871\/files\/B0D8CLDXC7.png?v=1720546041"},{"product_id":"bathroom-friends-grossly-adorable-adult-colouring-book-signed-copy","title":"Bathroom Friends Grossly Adorable Adult Colouring Book (Signed Copy)","description":"\u003ch4\u003eEveryone poops. But not like this.\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\rFrom bestselling author Brad Gosse comes \u003ci\u003eBathroom Friends\u003c\/i\u003e a grossly adorable adult colouring book that takes everything cozy, cute, and comforting... and drops it straight into the toilet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\rInside this square little disaster (8.5 x 8.5 inches), you’ll find 40 bizarre, hilarious scenes of innocent-looking animals doing awful things in even worse bathrooms. Whether it’s a sloth applying hemorrhoid cream mid-wine, a penguin having explosive regrets in a frozen stall, or a rabbit managing a literal poop factory, every page delivers laughs, relief, and artistic trauma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\r\u003cb\u003eWhat You’ll Colour:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r• A pig enjoying a poop-bath spa day\u003cbr\u003e\r• A llama vomiting into a bidet while the water sprays back\u003cbr\u003e\r• A raccoon eating tacos mid-wipe\u003cbr\u003e\r• A fox scrubbing acorns labeled \"balls\"\u003cbr\u003e\r• A parrot screaming “I SHIT MYSELF” from the sink\u003cbr\u003e\r• A turtle stuck on the toilet for four hours\u003cbr\u003e\r• And 34 more scenes that should not exist, but do\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\r\u003cb\u003ePerfect for:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r• White elephant parties and gag gifts\u003cbr\u003e\r• Friends who overshare in group chats\u003cbr\u003e\r• People who colour on the toilet (you know who you are)\u003cbr\u003e\r• Immature adults, overworked nurses, disgruntled coworkers\u003cbr\u003e\r• Fans of Cozy Friends... but feral\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\r\u003cb\u003eProduct Details:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r• 8.5 x 8.5 inch square paperback\u003cbr\u003e\r• 40 single-sided pages (no bleed-through disasters)\u003cbr\u003e\r• Easy-to-colour linework with just the right amount of disgusting detail\u003cbr\u003e\r• Great for pencils, markers, or scented highlighters (poop-scented not included)\u003cbr\u003e\r• Includes a test page to prevent marker bleed\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\r\u003ci\u003eBathroom Friends\u003c\/i\u003e is the chaotic comfort book you’ll laugh at, colour through, and leave proudly next to the plunger. Equal parts adorable and disturbing, it’s your new favourite bathroom companion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\r\u003cb\u003eNot safe for children. Probably not safe for adults either. But highly recommended.\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"bradgosse","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51513753043247,"sku":"B0FD9R3HML","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/1962\/9871\/files\/39a867cc828176f154a80bd14648374d.png?v=1750187684"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0698\/1962\/9871\/collections\/Bathroom_Friends_Colouring_Book_page_13_colored.png?v=1783010657","url":"https:\/\/bradgosse.com\/collections\/adult-coloring-books.oembed","provider":"Brad Gosse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}