Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.

Quote credited to Ernest Benn (Sir John Pickstone Benn)

Life
August 8, 1912
see bottom right-hand corner of page 1562

Rockford Register-Gazette
(Illinois)
August 15, 1912
page 8, column 2: Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like.—Life.

San Francisco Chronicle
(California)
April 8, 1917
Cartoonagrams by Charles A. Ogden
Second tier, first panel: Behold a chick getting it’s first liberty. Liberty is being free from the things we don’t like in order to be slaves of the things we do like. 

Further Reading
The Big Apple


(Next post on Monday: Vivian Berg)

Street Scene: Comics for Collectors, Ithaca, New York

•   I T H A C A,  N E W  Y O R K   •

Comics for Collectors

207 North Aurora Street

The Comic Book Club of Ithaca

ITHACON 42

(Next post on Monday: Liberty)

Street Scene: Captain America at Liberty View

•  S U N S E T  P A R K ,  B R O O K L Y N  •

Liberty View

850 3rd Avenue (at 31st Street)

About the designer, Dave Cortes
Related post: Avengers: Age of Awnings

(Next post on Monday: Comics for Collectors)

Creator: Alan Aldridge

ALAN ALDRIDGE
June 1, 1943 – February 17, 2017

The Guardian
February 20, 2017
How Alan Aldridge made the 60s swing – in pictures

The Guardian
February 22, 2017
Alan Aldridge obituary

Design Week
February 24, 2017
Remembering Alan Aldridge: the revolutionary graphic designer of the “swinging sixties”

The Telegraph
February 28, 2017
Alan Aldridge, Sixties psychedelic illustrator – obituary

Famous Graphic Designers
Alan Aldridge

Alan Aldridge at the Design Museum

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics (1969)

The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics 2 (1971)

Bernie Taupin: The One Who Writes the Words for Elton John (1976)

The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast (1973; 2009)

The Peacock Party (1979)

The Ship’s Cat (1977)

The Penguin Book of Comics (1967) 

The Penguin Book of Comics (1971)

Further Reading

Vintage Children’s Book: The Butterfly Ball and the Grasshopper’s Feast, Part One; Part Two; Part Three

The Penguin Book of Comics (1967)
The Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes: The Art of Alan Aldridge (2009)

(Next post on Monday: Captain America at Liberty View)