2010.54.2613

• counter culture

Poster has a stylized drawing overall. The background of the drawing is dominated by a large black sky, towards the bottom there is a cityscape with factories and tall buildings at the horizon and the ground covered in rubble and other small figures and destroyed things. Some examples of items depicted in the rubble are: police in gasmasks, an overturned tanker truck with the text: "shell", and skeletons in suits and top hats. Standing, emerging from this rubble is a giant nude figure that has a penis, breasts, and wings. This figure is holding above its head a large circle or stylized sun that contains the text: "Arise / You Banshees / Werewolves & Scum / Rise Up Break The Myths / And Chains Binding You To / Hades - Bust Out And Boogey / With Your New Found Reality. You Are The Future's / Freedom. You've Got The / Power. / Life To The Lifestyle". Above this in a kind of cloud are a number of cartoon like figures including: a rat with a machine gun, a cowboy with a large nose, and a worm in a top hat". Verso has pages 13 and 16 of the February 6-13, 1970 issue of The Berkeley Tribe.