The Profit

    (Go Broke, 1966)

The title of The Profit parodies Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet, a book of poetic essays published in 1923 that has sold over 100 million copies and was very popular in '60s counterculture. Beck's spoof sold only a few thousand, but its insights on greed and class warfare are still relevant to today's society. The Profit offers some of Beck's most insightful and funny work, made all the more remarkable when you realize he produced it before he was 24 years old. -- ComixJoint, comixjoint.com/profit.html
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