Some new (old) comics from my personal collection on consignment at my DayJob at @dragonslaircomicsmedcenter! Some rare finds in this batch that likely won’t last long! (Big thanks to upper management for the opportunity.) #comiccollector #vintagecomics #comicshopgirl #excalibur #blackorchid #adventurecomics #archiecomics #wonderwoman #uncannyxmen #spiderwoman #newmutants #vertigo #subtleviolents #josephmichaellinsner #billsienkiewicz #buymystuff
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How to fish without a rod
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Beadnet Dress
This beadnet dress is constructed of faience cylinder beads (field number 33-3-34) and 27 faience floral pendants (field number 33-3-35a), reconstructed by Sheila Shear in 2001.
Old Kingdom, 6th Dynasty, ca. 2345-2181 BC. From Giza, tomb G 2342 D (now G 5520 D); 1933: excavated by the Harvard University–Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition. Now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 33.1020.1
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Inktober 19.8 - Frail; Biollante (rose form)
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It’s Time to Break Up Disney -
I’d like to thank The American Prospect for giving me the opportunity today to publish my first ever article in an actual established outlet, hopefully the first of many. Here’s why I think we need to break up the Walt Disney Company.
This has been an incredible year for the Walt Disney Company. Not only has Avengers: Endgame become the best-selling movie in box office history, but Disney currently holds all four slots for this year’s top-earning films. However, the company’s dominance isn’t quite something to celebrate.
At the moment, almost 38 percent of all U.S. box office sales in 2019 have gone to a Disney-owned movie, down from a peak of over 40 percent earlier this year. And that’s even before coming releases of Frozen 2, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, and Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker. As we can see by looking at the U.S. box office over the last 30 years, Disney has more than doubled its already significant market share in just five years, reaching an unprecedented point in modern history for a film company…
Within the next couple of years, there is a good chance that the majority of all money made from wide-release movies will go into the pockets of the Walt Disney Company. Even if you consider yourself a dedicated Disney fan, this should concern you…
The Walt Disney Company is no longer the gentle giant of film and animation of yesteryear. Today, Disney is a multinational corporate conglomerate that takes in over $10 billion a year in profits alone. Its consistent growth and strategy of buying out other firms has put the company in a position of nearly unprecedented power in the U.S. media market, and thus in the global media market as well.
This position gives Disney the ability to offer lower-quality products, crush competitors, squeeze profits from other markets, influence politicians in its favor, and more. As the controversy around modern monopolies heats up, it is becoming clear that we need a generalized revitalization of antitrust law in the United States. As part of such a campaign, Disney too must be identified as a monopolistic corporate titan in severe need of being broken up into a number of smaller companies in order to restore both fair competition and the sanctity of American democracy.
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Phantasm (1979), Don Coscarelli
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On this day, 29 August 1923, anti-Nazi resistance fighter and sculptor Truus Oversteegen (pictured, right) was born in Schoten, Netherlands. Together with her younger sister, Freddie (left), she joined the Haarlem resistance group in 1941 and began sabotaging railways and killing fascists: on at least one occasion seducing an SS officer leading him into the woods to be shot. Unlike her best friend and comrade Hannie Schaft Truus survived the war and lived a long life, and used her art as one way of dealing with the trauma of killing and losing Hannie. This is a podcast episode we produced about antifascist youths during World War II: https://soundcloud.com/workingclasshistory/anti-nazi-youth-world-war-ii https://www.facebook.com/workingclasshistory/photos/a.296224173896073/1198583233660158/?type=3
