Dragon Ball - Superhero : 2022

SDCC 3-inch promo pinback button

Dragon Ball Super: Super Hero – 2022 Japanese animated martial arts fantasy adventure film and the sequel to Dragon Ball Super: Broly (2018). It is the twenty-first animated feature film in the Dragon Ball franchise, the second to carry the Dragon Ball Super branding, the first to be produced mainly using CGI animation. In the film, Piccolo and his former student Gohan head on a mission to save the world from the newly reformed Red Ribbon Army.

 

Grateful Dead - Aladdin : 1981 Las Vegas NV

Grateful Dead – August 31, 1981 Aladdin Theatre – Las Vegas, NV

2.25-inch pin-back buttons created and designed by Les Kippel and Gary Kroman for the 1981 Spring Tour Show at the Alladin – should have been the Aladdin Theater

The Book of Weirdo : 2019

1.25-inch promotional pin-back buttons distributed during 2019 East Coast Comic Con, Secaucus, NJ

The Book of Weirdo is the definitive examination of Weirdo magazine, renowned underground comix cartoonist Robert Crumb’s legendary humor comics anthology from the 1980s. Crumb himself has called the retrospective “a great book” and “the definitive work on the subject.” Written by Jon B. Cooke

East Coast Comic Con held a book launch which featured writers and artists who worked on the magazine: Carol Tyler, Peter Bagge, Drew Friedman, Mark Newgarden, Glenn Head, Kim Deitch, Kaz, Stephen Blickenstaff and John Holmstrom.

Atlantic City Pop Festival : 1969

1.25-inch pin-back button (curl: Horn Company, Phila. PA. 19126)

The Atlantic City Pop Festival took place in 1969 on August 1, 2 and 3rd at the Atlantic City race track, two weeks before the Woodstock Festival. The festival/concert took place in Hamilton Township at the Atlantic City Race Course

Concert acts included: Janis Joplin, Chicago, Booker T. & the M.G.’s, Tim Buckley, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Byrds, Canned Heat, The Chambers Brothers, Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Cass Elliot, Iron Butterfly, Jefferson Airplane, B.B. King, Little Richard, Looking Glass, Buddy Miles, Joni Mitchell, The Mothers of Invention, Procol Harum, Santana