Von Dutch - The Art, The Myth, The Legend

Author: Pat Ganahl, ISBN: 9781613251584, Paperback, Published in 2014, 191 pages

There's nothing completely clear about the man who called himself Von Dutch. The one thing you can be sure about is that you shouldn't believe everything you hear. Though the stories about Von Dutch are entertaining striping a car for 10 days straight, firing a cannon out of his living-room window, fleeing California after shooting at a police helicopter, conversing with invisible martians — they are probably not all entirely accurate. Like a copy of a copy of a copy, the stories have undoubtedly changed, and the Von Dutch legend grown (with some creative nudging from Dutch himself), over the years. Unfortunately, like many of life's mysteries, the harder you look at Von Dutch, the more out of focus he becomes.

In this book, author Pat Ganahl uses interviews, published accounts, photos, and Dutch's artwork to straighten things out and nail down the truth. This is probably the closest we'll ever come to knowing what really happened.