Interesting Things

Poster designed by Alfredo Rostgaard, for the Organization of Solidarity with the People of Asia, African and Latin America, 1968

ET Guru wants you to know you are special every day.

Celebrating the 19th amendment by registering and voting. Poster published by the Americanization Society, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1919.

Souvenir program cover, art by Merrill, 1939

Actual poster from her 1972 Presidential campaign. She didn't open the door, but she kicked it hard enough to break the lock.

Hand drawn poster used in the Freddie Gray protests in Baltimore, Maryland, 2015. Artist unknown. This sign has been saved in the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American history and culture.

Gay liberation front poster, 1970.

Black Panther headquarters in Oakland, CA. Huey Newton and Bobby Seale. With a quote from Huey Newton. 1971, photographer unknown.

1939 exploitation movie "Don't send them to juvenile hall, Judge, I'll give them a job at my turpentine factory, and they'll turn out okay." It's not okay.

A fourth of July design that's almost as loud as your fireworks. Show your true patriotism!

From a painting by Ed Emshwiller, for Science Fiction Quarterly, 1957. Is that a mind scanner in her hand?

Book cover by José Guadalupe Posada. One of a series of pamphlets for children published in Mexico, in 1900. Dang, children's books used to be a lot more interesting.

Have a serene and snug holiday.

from our baseboards to yours. Roachy Claus brings the cheer.

It's less work.

Whip up a cup in the lab

It's the Night for Fright, it's De-fright-ful

Have a Halloween to die for

Aliens can be Zen, too.

Some scientists have a strange sense of humor.

pompous alien explains why you're wrong.

It's Pagan, it's scary!

Don't trust a goblin with a golden apple.

Gator Woman is a real catch

Mr. Tentaculum at your service.

Devil drinking Halloween punch from a stein, giving a thumbs up.

He wants to bite your nuts.

Party with Frankston for a monstrous Halloween!

It was ugly. It is still ugly. No matter how much anyone might try to find good in it. Photo courtesy of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

1963 movie in "Spectarama"! Surprisingly good movie.

1978 poster, with a heroic Sci-fi theme that has nothing to do with the movie. This is the Turkish rip-off version.

Clowns have been evil at least since the 40's.

1935 Italian adventure movie.

A landmark legal case. (name misspelled on poster) The first woman in US history acquitted for using deadly force to resist rape. 1974.

1922 mystery western silent movie. By Norman Studios, a producers of what were known at the time as "race films". Colored cast, for colored audiences, and ignored by film historians.

Creepy and suspenseful 1927 silent film. Vampires,hypnotism, and bizarre deaths.