Once upon a time, the future was full of promise and adventure.

    Each day we'd soar past the Art Deco towers of Retropolis in our flying cars, skimming over the monorail tracks that led past the outskirts of the city.
    We'd live a life of leisure because the streamlined marvels of technology had made our daily labors a thing of the past.
    Plentiful, clean energy would drive the rockets and the pneumatic tubes that kept the City of Tomorrow running.
    But we'd keep our ray guns handy - there'd be no way of telling just when those Atomic Spiders were going to show up again.

    It'd be swell, wouldn't it? Yep. It really would.

   
 "Organizing Against Conformity Since 1903!"

   The Non-Conformists' Union (which, of course, hasn't ever really existed) has a rich and complex history that spans over a century. This site is run by Local 404, the only non-regional chapter of the organization, and it's the home of all itinerant and international Non-Conformists.
   The graphics I've done here for tee shirts, journals, membership items, and coffee mugs are all based, in one way or another, on vintage graphics. But they're remixed with the cheerfully misguided slogans of the NCU, like "Let's All Go on the Road Less Traveled", "Individuals Unite!" or "Organize Against Conformity".
   It's possible that I had just a little too much fun here. There are pages of news and local events and the massive history of the NCU, which is illustrated with family photographs of my vaudevillean great-grandparents.