Flashbak - Everything Old Is New Again

The stars indicate the places that are open all night. The only important omission is … the various speakeasies but since there are about 500 of them you won’t have much trouble
– Elmer Simms Campbell, A Night-Club Map of 1930s Harlem
In 1932, a night out in Harlem, Manhattan, NYC, could mean a trip to the Cotton Club, the Savoy Ballroom, Club Hot-Cha or any number of speakeasies. We can better imagine the experience thanks to Elmer Simms Campbell (January 2, 1906 – January 27, 1...

Fiesta Mayor de Verdiales en la Venta El Tunel Su majestad Juan Medina y Jose-Gutierrez
To the province of Málaga in Andalusia on Spain’s Costa del Sol. From 1969 to 1971, photographer Jürgen Schadeberg (18 March 1931 – 29 August 2020) was there to capture the essence of the place rapidly shifting from rural, fishing-dependency to a major...

“They call you ‘Little Man’, ‘Common Man’; they say a new era has begun, the ‘Era of the Common Man’. It isn’t you who says so, Little Man. It is they, the Vice Presidents of great nations, promoted labor leaders, repentant sons of bourgeois families...

Pulitzer Prize-winning comix artist Art Spiegelman wrote the graphic novel Maus, the self-published zine RAW. While working at Topps trading cards he co-created the Garbage Pail Kids (with Mark Newgarden) and in 1971 this set of Nasty Valentine Notes...