Artist Al Hansen was a member of the Fluxus art movement as well as being involved in the 1960s pop art scene, and as such was an habitué of Andy Warhol's Factory.

On the night that Valerie Solanas shot Warhol, Hansen was on his way up to the Factory, just missing Solanas in the elevator as she hurried away from the scene of the crime. Hansen was one of the first people to arrive on the scene and later made the book 'Why shoot Andy Warhol?' about that fateful night.

This book was produced in a limited edition of thirty copies and consists of a cardboard box with a hand-coloured photocopy title-sheet. Inside the box are four loose pages of comic-strip style illustrations, three of these are hand-coloured photocopies, one is hand-drawn and coloured. There is also a sheet of handwritten text ruminating on the non-fatal shooting of Warhol 'the Leonardo da Vinci of the twentieth century' and comparing it to a Fluxus Happening.