Category: “Paper Bullets” exhibition

Political graphics dotted the walls of my family home when I was a child during the 1960s and ’70s, while my father was actively involved in U.S. civil rights and peace movements, though in far less prominent roles than others better known. An oversized print of Lorraine Schneider’s War is Not Healthy for Children and Other Living Things hung in the stairwell leading upstairs, and Sister Corita Kent’s yellow submarine and other posters protesting the war in Vietnam lined his home office. As a young man in the early 1950s, my conservative Ohio-born father enrolled at Yale Divinity School to…

KEVIN HOWLEY (PhD Indiana University, 1998) is a writer and educator. He is the author of several books including, most recently, Drones: Media Discourse & The Public Imagination. His research has appeared in Literature/Film Quarterly, Television & New Media, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism and Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture. In addition to his record of peer-reviewed scholarship, Howley has worked as a community newspaper columnist, radio broadcaster, and video producer. In recent years, his flash fiction and creative nonfiction have appeared in South Florida Poetry Journal, Quibble, Fauxmoir, and The Ryder Magazine. He is currently working on a…

Kevin Howley (PhD Indiana University, 1998) is a writer and educator. His work has appeared in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Social Movement Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly and Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture. His most recent book is Drones: Media Discourse and the Public Imagination. [Editor’s Note: Kevin was one of the first people to contact me offering to contribute to the Paper Bullets exhibition and book. His original plan was to write about the Richard Nixon “Watergate: The Proof Increases Every day” sticker, but after seeing his final essay, I asked if I could include other Nixon stickers, too.] Watergate: The Proof Increases Everyday, V. Dinnerstein,…

Kevin Howley (PhD Indiana University, 1998) is a writer and educator. His work has appeared in Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, Social Movement Studies, Literature/Film Quarterly and Interactions: Studies in Communication and Culture. His most recent book is Drones: Media Discourse and the Public Imagination. [Editor’s Note: Kevin was one of the first people to contact me offering to contribute to the Paper Bullets exhibition and book. His original plan was to write about the “No Intel Inside” sticker of George W. Bush, but after seeing his final essay, I asked if I could include other Bush stickers, too. I am delighted with how this all turned…

Organized in chronological order with text from Wikipedia (accessed February 17, 2024). Franklin Delano Roosevelt (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), commonly known as FDR, was an American politician who served as the 32nd president of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945. He was a member of the Democratic Party and is the only U.S. president to have served more than two terms. His initial two terms were centered on combating the Great Depression, while his third and fourth saw him shift his focus to America’s involvement in World War II. Alfred Mossman Landon (September 9,…

In November 2023, I sent out a call for abstracts to CULTSTUD-L, a cultural studies listserv, inviting contributions to be included in the Paper Bullets: 100 Years of Political Stickers from Around the World exhibition and accompanying catalogue. “International researchers, scholars, writers, artists, activists, archivists, librarians, and others from diverse multicultural backgrounds are welcome to submit proposals. Essays will be presented in English, though translations can also be presented in the exhibition. Graduate students are welcome to submit. The Los Angeles Center for the Study of Political Graphics’ poster of the week provides some excellent examples of the sort of…