Category Archives: American Way

Congress sit in

Sitting For Justice

  Taking a stand by sitting. Finally Democratic leaders are acting like social justice advocates. Bravo!

Congress sit in

Sitting For Justice

  Taking a stand by sitting. Finally Democratic leaders are acting like social justice advocates. Bravo!

vintage love comics

Love is Love

Hours after the horrific news broke of the shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, the gunman’s father suggested to the media that the sight of 2 men kissing may have prompted his son to go on a killing rampage.

vintage love comics

Love is Love

Hours after the horrific news broke of the shooting at the gay nightclub in Orlando, the gunman’s father suggested to the media that the sight of 2 men kissing may have prompted his son to go on a killing rampage.

guns nra-stop-gun-madness

End the Gun Violence Now

Keep Hope Alive In July 1969, a full-page advertisement  in the Sunday  NY Times posed a request to the American public: Hold onto this page for 1 year and hope and pray it’s ended. The hopeful ad  appeared  one  year

guns nra-stop-gun-madness

End the Gun Violence Now

Keep Hope Alive In July 1969, a full-page advertisement  in the Sunday  NY Times posed a request to the American public: Hold onto this page for 1 year and hope and pray it’s ended. The hopeful ad  appeared  one  year

Urban Middle Class – A Thing of the Past

“Want to build a wall around Manhattan?” asks this 1948 ad for Goodyear. Well in 2016 one has already been built. Billionaire Donald Trump’s pipe dream of wanting to build a wall along the Mexican Border of the U.S. may

Urban Middle Class – A Thing of the Past

“Want to build a wall around Manhattan?” asks this 1948 ad for Goodyear. Well in 2016 one has already been built. Billionaire Donald Trump’s pipe dream of wanting to build a wall along the Mexican Border of the U.S. may

vintage comics PSA

What Donald Trump Could Learn From a Vintage Comic Book

Donald Trump’s “Good Neighbor” policy is appallingly un-American. Although sometimes it seems that all Donald Trump learned about life he learned from a comic book, clearly Little Donnie would have benefited from reading these Public Service ads that ran in 

vintage comics PSA

What Donald Trump Could Learn From a Vintage Comic Book

Donald Trump’s “Good Neighbor” policy is appallingly un-American. Although sometimes it seems that all Donald Trump learned about life he learned from a comic book, clearly Little Donnie would have benefited from reading these Public Service ads that ran in 

comic cartoon homophobia

Hating Love in the Name of God

Why do so many still hate in the name of Religion? Taking it to its ugliest extreme is this latest mass killing in  a gay nightclub in Orlando where  one man shot and killed 49 people, injuring over 50  because

comic cartoon homophobia

Hating Love in the Name of God

Why do so many still hate in the name of Religion? Taking it to its ugliest extreme is this latest mass killing in  a gay nightclub in Orlando where  one man shot and killed 49 people, injuring over 50  because

Robert Kennedy Campaign For President 1968

Robert Kennedy Through the Eyes of a Teenage Girl

1968 was no ordinary time and Robert Kennedy was no ordinary candidate. The wave of young idealists propelling Bernie’s campaign feel similar to that infamous year when Bobby had fired up Americas youth. Including a barely teen age me. I

Robert Kennedy Campaign For President 1968

Robert Kennedy Through the Eyes of a Teenage Girl

1968 was no ordinary time and Robert Kennedy was no ordinary candidate. The wave of young idealists propelling Bernie’s campaign feel similar to that infamous year when Bobby had fired up Americas youth. Including a barely teen age me. I

Muhammad Ali Esquire Magazine

Muhammad Ali RIP Champ

R.I.P. Muhammad Ali – we lost a legend, a champion and an inspiration. George Lois’s powerful Esquire cover in April 1968 of the great Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr Saint Sebastian was one of the most iconic images of

Muhammad Ali Esquire Magazine

Muhammad Ali RIP Champ

R.I.P. Muhammad Ali – we lost a legend, a champion and an inspiration. George Lois’s powerful Esquire cover in April 1968 of the great Muhammad Ali posing as the martyr Saint Sebastian was one of the most iconic images of

Detail Collage- Constant Cravings by Sally Edelstein. Collage composed of appropriated vintage images

Disordered Eating

  Our eating really got disordered over half a century a go. In a culture where many still feel unempowered, where rigid beauty standards and body shaming run rampant  and women still learn to nurture others while neglecting to nourish

Detail Collage- Constant Cravings by Sally Edelstein. Collage composed of appropriated vintage images

Disordered Eating

  Our eating really got disordered over half a century a go. In a culture where many still feel unempowered, where rigid beauty standards and body shaming run rampant  and women still learn to nurture others while neglecting to nourish

Vintage illustration WWII Soldier

Memorial Day a Day For Remembering

On Memorial Day we pay homage to all the soldiers who didn’t come home. To all those we lost in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraqi, and Afghanistan, this Buds for you! Memorial Day has the word “memorial” for a

Vintage illustration WWII Soldier

Memorial Day a Day For Remembering

On Memorial Day we pay homage to all the soldiers who didn’t come home. To all those we lost in WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, Iraqi, and Afghanistan, this Buds for you! Memorial Day has the word “memorial” for a