The cartoonist wanted to tell a story that cut through the glitz of holiday commercialism and brought the focus back to something deeper.

They despised its commercialism and dreaded the prospect of future films about Mattel properties such as Barney and American Girl dolls.

Bob Dylan composed a hand-written note praising John and Yoko an enemies of “this mild dull taste of commercialism” forced on the culture by the “overpowering mass media.”

His work continued to defy precepts of commercialism, language and politics.

Viewers get a street-level view of the rise of the San Francisco dream — artistic freedom, community and authenticity — and its fall, thanks to hard drugs, commercialism and increasingly hard edges.