Ben Garrison Begins w/ Rory Blank by Pod Damn America published on 2021-12-19T21:20:31Z Cartoonist Rory Blank joins to discuss Ben Garrison's book and his origins becoming the official cartoonist of the Trump Train SUPPORT RORY: https://www.patreon.com/roryblank/ PLAYWRIGHT'S CENTER https://pwcenter.org/ MERCH poddamnamerica.bigcartel.com PATREON patreon.com/poddamnamerica Genre News & Politics Comment by Elsie-Jean Upon seeing Norman Rockwell's painting "Southern Justice (a Mississippi Murder)", the immediate comparison that came to mind was Francisco Goya's painting "The Third of May 1808", which shows the killing of resistance fighters by a Napoleonic firing squad. If you put the two pictures side-by-side, the inspiration is quite striking (and indeed Goya inspired a number of artists, including Picasso, with this painting). 2022-01-14T05:36:05Z Comment by Elsie-Jean FYI the illustration of Fredrick Brennan as a disembodied head on a flaming wheelchair is (according to Know Your Meme) titled "Hot Wheels", which pretty much explains the metaphor: Fredrick Brennan's online pseudonym (which well enough known to be listed in the first sentence of his Wikipedia entry) is "Hotwheels" (as in the children's toy), so the illustration is presumably just an extremely on-the-nose allusion to that. 2022-01-14T05:07:57Z Comment by Hazanoise Conspiracy sexy holocost? read "staleg" books and you will find the answer 2021-12-23T00:54:01Z
