Recommended viewing and reading
While working on Captain Capitalism, I am easily distracted by television or movies. But I generally have to have some sort of outside stimuli going on when I am working on the more mundane processes of making something like these cartoons. So, alot of the time I will listen to audiobooks while working on the toons. To keep me in the Captain Capitalism mood, I listened to both 1776 and John Adams by David McCullogh. By the way for all of you MLA fanatics, I did not underline the book titles, because this blogger window apparently does not have an underline option.
Anyway, I highly recommend both of these books. They are both very engaging and well written.
We, (because Mandy, [my wife] and I usually read together), have been reading a bunch of history books lately. One of these books is Russia: A Concise History by Ronald Hingley. Although the book is a bit outdated, it is completely fascinating and a good read for anybody who wants to learn more about Russian History. If you are one of the people on Newgrounds who was upset because Marx had a German accent in my cartoon...please buy and read this book. Either that or use Wikipedia.
Another book that is great, and gets flipped through almost everytime I work on Captain Capitalism is Red Scared! by Michael Barson and Steven Heller. The book is a collection of posters from films and other media during the McCarthy era.
As I said in one of the responses to a review on Newgrounds, I am more interested in the propaganda war than the actual "communism vs. capitalism "debate. In fact, I think it is almost surreal that that debate gets brought up based on these cartoons. I don't know how anyone could take these seriously. The inspiration behind the cartoon is more like a "What if?" Marvel comic, the "What if" being: "What if there was a superhero cartoon that was used to espoused Cold War era propaganda?"
As I have said, I am a big fan of the cartoons that were used in propaganda. Especially those like John Sutherland's King Joe and Make Mine Freedom. Both of these cartoons were created for Harding College to "create a deeper understanding of has made America the finest place in the world to live." Being a comic book fan, I thought it would be fun to explore this in terms of a superhero.
On a non-Captain Capitalism subject. If you did not see "Meet the Press" this weekend. Seek it out. It is available for free as a "pod cast" on I-tunes. Now I may be the only person in the world who is fanatical about "Meet the Press," (it is the only show that I set on our Tivo), but this episode was even better than most and, I would even say, important to watch.
Anyway, I highly recommend both of these books. They are both very engaging and well written.
We, (because Mandy, [my wife] and I usually read together), have been reading a bunch of history books lately. One of these books is Russia: A Concise History by Ronald Hingley. Although the book is a bit outdated, it is completely fascinating and a good read for anybody who wants to learn more about Russian History. If you are one of the people on Newgrounds who was upset because Marx had a German accent in my cartoon...please buy and read this book. Either that or use Wikipedia.
Another book that is great, and gets flipped through almost everytime I work on Captain Capitalism is Red Scared! by Michael Barson and Steven Heller. The book is a collection of posters from films and other media during the McCarthy era.
As I said in one of the responses to a review on Newgrounds, I am more interested in the propaganda war than the actual "communism vs. capitalism "debate. In fact, I think it is almost surreal that that debate gets brought up based on these cartoons. I don't know how anyone could take these seriously. The inspiration behind the cartoon is more like a "What if?" Marvel comic, the "What if" being: "What if there was a superhero cartoon that was used to espoused Cold War era propaganda?"
As I have said, I am a big fan of the cartoons that were used in propaganda. Especially those like John Sutherland's King Joe and Make Mine Freedom. Both of these cartoons were created for Harding College to "create a deeper understanding of has made America the finest place in the world to live." Being a comic book fan, I thought it would be fun to explore this in terms of a superhero.
On a non-Captain Capitalism subject. If you did not see "Meet the Press" this weekend. Seek it out. It is available for free as a "pod cast" on I-tunes. Now I may be the only person in the world who is fanatical about "Meet the Press," (it is the only show that I set on our Tivo), but this episode was even better than most and, I would even say, important to watch.
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