The use of images in comic books can substantially supplement a narrative, and the best example of this is some of the comic books from France. Here is a sampling of artwork from a French comic book series about an alternate Earth where architects have complete artistic control over the design of cities. An architectural vision is portrayed that becomes the centerpiece of the comic book.

 
Gar Alperovitz is someone who has succinctly evaluated the flaws of capitalism without necessarily assuming that socialism is the solution. Instead of government control, he has proposed a system of worker ownership of businesses in order to deal with the great disparity of wealth that has emerged for the past thirty years.

 
On May 15, 2010 the Green Party Of New York State nominated Howie Hawkins as its candidate for Governor. He offers a dynamic campaign that offers real ideas that the two-party system refuses to acknowledge. These include a statewide ban on hydrofracking of the Marcellus Shale, creating a state bank similar to the one in North Dakota that can invest in local businesses, and enforcing the stock transfer tax to effectively end the state budget deficit. There is a big discontent this year not only against incumbents but the two-party system in general which can help the Green Party achieve 50,000 votes for Governor in order to get ballot status.

 
Here is an intriguing look at a small aspect of the 1960's which may have been used later on as part of a critique of that decade. In terms of music, and album artwork, there was a brief intersection between the occult and the psychedelic counterculture. Magic, and it imagery, was sometimes used alongside the familiar psychedelic imagery and was in turn enhanced by it in terms of music. But in retrospect it was very probable that this intersection was villified by conservatives as a moral degradation by the counterculture on the larger society.

 
The writings of Timothy Leary in the 1960's was one of the major forces behind the counterculture. These ideas emphasized the personal exploration of the mind in conjunction with the development of a free society. The specific freedom expressed in the counterculture is one where individuals can transform themselves in the shell of the old society. Psychedelics can be an instrument for this specific type of freedom, but it is not dependent on them.