Re: [Marxism] RED Cartoon

["Carlos A. Rivera" <cerejota@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: "Petar" <petars@xxxxxxxxx>



> I am getting it as well, this dose illustrate a point tho. There are no
> comics/cartoons to counter USA main stream dribble(that I know of at
> least).

???

Even Frank Miller, famous for re-inventing Batman and the now-ever-so-trendy
Sin City (ie THE top US comic producer), created the incredibly
poignant-yet-comic-enough "Give Me Liberty" and "Martha Washington Goes to
War", both about all that is wrong in the USA, and the Second Civil War it
leads to (the third mini-series, "Martha Washington Saves the World" is not
as good, but keeps the politics.)

In short, Martha Washington (which was the name of George's wife) is an
Afro-American woman who is born in the mid-90s in Cabrini Greene-Chicago,
considered even today the most crime-ridden housing project (estate) in the
USA.

As she grows up she joins the US Army, first when a left-Democrat/Green gets
elected, sends the Army to fight off hamburger companies who want to burn
down the amazon, and then as the evil forces regain control of the empire,
after the banning of meat as punishment to the thinly disguised McClone
called "Fat Boy Burger", she keeps on the armed forces and fights in the
civil war that desintegrates the USA, and creates a bunch of feuding states,
including the Feminazi First Sex Confederacy, the Gay Nazis, Fat Boy Burger
Army, and PAX, the remaining federal government.

As the story progresses, Martha is faced with the reality she is figthing
for the wrong side. Only a chance meeting with the "Ghosts", an
eco-socialist (yes, they get called that in the book!!!) underground of
invicibility suit-wearing revolutionaries, who have a socialist utopia
hidded from view in the middle of the nuclear wasteland that was Oklahoma
City (it sent chills up my spine when OK bombing happened as it was shortly
after this book was released). In this socialist utopia, people solve
greivances by hitting each other with special weapons and armor that allow
them to vent anger without hurting each other, share equaly in
responsability, there is no gender oppression, have alliances with the
native american tribes, and kick the asses of the bad guys with the best and
biggest weapons, including the cool cloaking divices...

Yes I know its fantasy, but the "Eco-Socialism" is not a vague reference,
but a complete worked out plot point in the thing. It is as if Miller were
saying "Socialism or Barbarism". Powerful for 14 year olds.

And this is but one example. Comics have been one of the few spaces in which
leftists ideas have had unabashed presence in the mainstream USA. Long
before TV shows had it, mainstream comics had openly gay superheroes, black
superheroes, etc etc etc.

As to cartoons, the single most mainstream acceptable radical productions
are the incredibly subversive cartoons produced, which are two numerous to
name. Among my faves I count Bizaro and Tommy Tommorow, yet most newspapers
carry usually left-leaning cartoons, which had led to an increasing number
of right-leaning cartoons to combat the Cartoon Liberal Conspiracy or
whatever the right call it...

sks


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