Yates is a British punk/postpunk graphic designer whose “stealworks” (mordant agit-prop collages that use appropriated images in savage critiques of capitalism, the social order, American power, etc.) are associated with the Dead Kennedys’ Alternative Tentacles Records label, for whom he worked as in-house designer for a decade (http://stealworks.com/about). File contains postcards, poster, booklet related to his anti-war Warfear project; posters.

A book about his work, Stealworks: The Graphic Details of John Yates, is included in Box #1. A cassette containing my 1995 interview with him is included in the box containing interview cassettes.