Black and white illustration of a man with large feet leaning back with his foot thrust forward. Black text on an orange background. 

The restaurant G.I. Joe's, appropriates the famous "Keep on Truckin'" image from a comic by American artist and cartoonist Robert Crumb. The "Keep on Truckin" cartoon was published in the first issue of Zap Comics in 1968. It was based on lyrics from the Blind Boy Fuller song "Truckin' My Blues Away" and became associated with the hippie movement in the 1960s. The copyright of the image has been widely violated and the image is often reproduced without permission.

Abstract design of a white and black geometric shape on a green background. 

This illustration is part of a series of buttons that were distributed at the Park Place Gallery in New York, the first art gallery in SoHo. According to an Art in America article, they were given out during the opening show in 1966 at a party for the Rolling Stones at the Scene discotheque. The designs were created by different artists including Dean Fleming, Tony Magar, Tamara Melcher, Patsy Krebs, and Steve Vasey. According to Fleming, the colorful geometric designs encourage the viewer to interpret the art in their own way.

Cartoon illustration of a face with narrowed eyebrows and a red tongue sticking out on a green background. 

This cartoon face illustration of a tongue out is part of a series of buttons by an unknown artist. The faces are intended to elicit lighthearted humor and depict exaggerated features or expressions to elicit laughs. This series was created at Colonial Sales, a greeting card and stationary shop in Massachusetts.

Painted image of overlapping light green, dark green, pink, and purple brush strokes. 

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Abstract design of a yellow diamond shape, two black shapes and two red shapes. 

This illustration is part of a series of buttons that were distributed at the Park Place Gallery in New York, the first art gallery in SoHo. According to an Art in America article, they were given out during the opening show in 1966 at a party for the Rolling Stones at the Scene discotheque. The buttons were designed by different artists including Dean Fleming, Tony Magar, Tamara Melcher, Patsy Krebs, and Steve Vasey. According to Fleming, the colorful geometric designs encourage the viewer to interpret the art in their own way. 

Black and white illustration of two figures slouching on chairs with their feet up on a table. Artist's signature is underneath the table with black text centered below the image.

This illustration was created by cartoonist Herb Gardner. Herb Gardner (December 28, 1934 – September 25, 2003) was born in New York and studied at Antioch college. While at Antioch, he developed the comic strip "The Nebbishes" which became very famous in the 1950s. The Nebbishes characters (depicted here) were marketed on everything from coffee mugs to ashtrays. Besides being a cartoonist, Herb Gardner was also a musician, novelist, and playwright.

Color illustration of an old man with glasses with two children behind him and a white rabbit in front of him. Black and red text on a yellow background with a blue border. 

Foxy Grandpa was a popular comic strip by cartoonist Carl E. Schultze (May 25, 1866 – January 18, 1939). Schultze drew his comics under the pseudonym Bunny, his childhood nickname, usually accompanied by a drawing of a rabbit. Foxy Grandpa was one of the earliest popular newspaper comic strips, which later became a stage play. 

Abstract design of four black and white triangles on a yellow background. 

This illustration is part of a series of buttons that were distributed at the Park Place Gallery in New York, the first art gallery in SoHo. According to an Art in America article, they were given out during the opening show in 1966 at a party for the Rolling Stones at the Scene discotheque. Each design was created by different artists including Dean Fleming, Tony Magar, Tamara Melcher, Patsy Krebs, and Steve Vasey. According to Fleming, the colorful geometric designs encourage the viewer to interpret the art in their own way.

Black and white photographic image of Albert Einstein's face on a black background. 

Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who developed the general theory of relativity and the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc^2_, which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation". His great achievements have made the word "Einstein" synonymous with "genius". Einstein won the Nobel Prize in Physics and was named Man of the Century by Time magazine but he actually did not do very well in school, once failing his university entrance exam; and had a very poor memory. Two of Einstein's least favorite things were haircuts and socks, while his two favorite things were sailing and his violin, which he named Lina. 

Illustration of a man with several noses around his head with white text on a red background.

This button is from the 1965 series of LEAF "Fink Buttons" illustrated by popular Mid-Century artist Basil Wolverton. Perhaps best known for his work at MAD Magazine, Basil Wolverton (July 9, 1909 – December 31, 1978) was an American cartoonist and illustrator famous for his humorously grotesque drawings. Wolverton worked in the "Golden Age" of comic books doing features like "Powerhouse Pepper" and "Spacehawk" in the 1940s. A 2009 New York Times article states that Wolverton’s drawings embodied the “sick-and-proud humor” of MAD magazine and were considered a “virtuoso exercise in bad taste, made all the weirder for being so meticulously executed.”