One of the luckiest artists alive, Richard Prince has made his career and fortune re-photographing magazine advertisements and retelling jokes in paintings and drawings. Equally gifted at designing his own artist's books and exhibition catalogues, Prince fills this volume with his free-spirited, figurative hippie drawings, prefaced with a cover photo of the artist in 1969 as a longhaired, bearded hippie and accompanied by Richard Brautigan's offbeat 1958 poem "The Galilee Hitch-Hiker." Childlike in portrayal, Prince's colorful characters look crazed but cheerful as they flash peace signs, dangle smokes from their grinning mouths, and assume yoga positions. Drawn with ink, acrylics, markers, and crayons between 1996 and 2000, these works owe as much to the work of '80s art stars Jean-Michel Basquiat, Donald Baechler, and Martin Kippenberger (to whom the book is dedicated) as they do to Prince's uninhibited mind and hand.

A comprehensive survey of Richard Prince's work opens at the Guggenheim Museum in New York on September 28.