Los Angeles has reached peak bumper sticker: It’s now common to see cars displaying a rainbow of decals. Today’s stickers often mimic classic formulations from bumper stickers past and declare loyalty ...

People have been putting bumper stickers on their cars since the 1940s, when a Kansas City screen printer named Forrest P. Gill invented them. Gill got his hands on some adhesive-backed paper and ...

From gridlock to a Sunday cruise, people are spending considerable time in their vehicles. Bumper stickers provide an advertising venue for businesses as well as an outlet for drivers' self-expression ...

Campaign bumper stickers are part of a hallowed (if sometimes raucous) tradition, as Martha Teichner now tells us: It’s been said that Americans consider their cars extensions of their personalities, ...

Jeanne Vaccaro, a scholar and curator from Kansas, always wanted to become a bumper sticker person. For years, she collected stickers from artists, musicians and bookstores, but she kept them away ...