filc: Lilburne, Are these organized into a folder or a group on piscasa? I'm not completely familiar with it. Can I navigate from the first comic to the next somehow?
Lilburne,
Are these organized into a folder or a group on piscasa? I'm not completely familiar with it. Can I navigate from the first comic to the next somehow?
Yes, they are organized in albums. if you click on "View All" you'll see thumbnails of the whole issue/album.
I want to say that I LOL'd at the part II exposition on facebook. :) It's awesome.
Frame 9 is awesome with Bastiat suddenly rolling up his sleeves, "I've got this."
mhamlin: Frame 9 is awesome with Bastiat suddenly rolling up his sleeves, "I've got this."
I wrote this before I finished part 2. You've got to be some kind of geek to find a comic strip about economics exciting but you've done it.
dammit! i want to see what happens next!
gimme more!
Where there is no property there is no justice; a proposition as certain as any demonstration in Euclid
Fools! not to see that what they madly desire would be a calamity to them as no hands but their own could bring
1st issue: pretty damn good
2nd issue: amazing, I think you started to hit your stride. I love that it has characters and a cliff hanger ending.
hahahaha
major lols at slide 20
Good work!
Lilburne:Introducing...Issue #1: The Basics Until I figure out something better, I'm publishing these as Google Picassa album. Feedback appreciated as always.
Until I figure out something better, I'm publishing these as Google Picassa album.
Feedback appreciated as always.
HA Comics Issue 1: The Basics, p. 14.
The top reads: "Behavior is purposeful if it has an end (a goals or aim)."
This should read "a goal" (not the typo "a goals").
Unless there absolutely must be illiteracy to make it a proper comic book.
If there must be a typo here, use "gaol" (Brit. for US "jail", and an excellent Scrabble word, in a pinch), because at least it would be a funny typo.
Otherwise, good stuff.
The frames with Adam Smith onwards are killer. Lilburne you might have actually given me the tools to show my fiancee that economics is actually fun!
The atoms tell the atoms so, for I never was or will but atoms forevermore be.
Yours sincerely,
Physiocrat
I LOVED the second one, the first one was good, but the second one was amazing. Make them into a presentation on youtube! There they will reach most people.
Arvin: I LOVED the second one, the first one was good, but the second one was amazing. Make them into a presentation on youtube! There they will reach most people.
Agree with all of the above. Great work Lilburne.
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It's easy to refute an argument if you first misrepresent it. William Keizer
Good job Mr. Lilburne!
But just one little suggestion: Make sure you point out that the primary factors of production are only two - land and labor. Capital is derived by combining labor and land.
So good. Please continue this project and keep us updated with the new issues. I can't wait for issue #3.
I caught a small typo, I think shipreck is spelt shipwreck. No matter tho, the content and style you are using is fantastic. If you did a whole series of these you should find a good illustrator and get them published. I will definatley do what I can to spread the word.
Lilburne should hold auditions for impersonations and/or voices for each appropriate figure mentioned, perhaps in this or in a related thread :)
"Look at me, I'm quoting another user to show how wrong I think they are, out of arrogance of my own position. Wait, this is my own quote, oh shi-" ~ Nitroadict
On Picassa.
On Facebook.
I love all of them :-)
On tinny bit of critice, maybe you could provide links at the end of the slideshow if people want to read further? So they don't just see this slideshow and then they have nowhere to go for further reading.
And nicley dne on the red bubbles/text, it draws your eyes to them!
Lilburne: Issue #3: Marginal Theory of Value On Picassa. On Facebook.
Shakaman:On tinny bit of critice, maybe you could provide links at the end of the slideshow if people want to read further? So they don't just see this slideshow and then they have nowhere to go for further reading.
That's a good idea.
Conza88: Lilburne: Issue #3: Marginal Theory of Value On Picassa. On Facebook.
Lol...
I love how Carl gets bigger and Adam gets smaller..
2 minor quibbles:1.) Your avatar's comments regarding the proper importance Menger, while appropriate for Austrian Econ, seem a bit heavy-handed to the uninitiated, methinks, but it still works regardless. 2.) I think after Menger priases Smith, his avatar should grow a little in the next panel, perhaps with a smiley face above it to indicate how Smith might better understand himself (in this "universe") in the context of other economic figures. Regarding the 2nd point, I think you could do an entire series of these where various econ & political figures argue accordingly to exaggerated, parodied, or homaged avatars of themselves. It would be great to see such a thing occur between Marx, Smith, Menger etc. Also, great cameos. I liked the one by Freud, who shows you can still be mostly wrong about everything you write about & still have good comedic timing :DI think Rothbard could show up in a future parody segment of his avatar in front of a blackboard trying to "modernize" an explanation of the levels of intervention (Chapter 2 of P&M ), with a hit or miss usage of modern slang. Probably would work better as animation, although the slides would suffice for the amount of labor (ha ha! nevermind, it's late...) required for such an execution
Nitroadict: Lilburne: Issue #3: Marginal Theory of Value On Picassa. On Facebook. 2 minor quibbles:1.) Your avatar's comments regarding the proper importance Menger, while appropriate for Austrian Econ, seem a bit heavy-handed to the uninitiated, methinks, but it still works regardless. 2.) I think after Menger priases Smith, his avatar should grow a little in the next panel, perhaps with a smiley face above it to indicate how Smith might better understand himself (in this "universe") in the context of other economic figures. Regarding the 2nd point, I think you could do an entire series of these where various econ & political figures argue accordingly to exaggerated, parodied, or homaged avatars of themselves. It would be great to see such a thing occur between Marx, Smith, Menger etc. Also, great cameos. I liked the one by Freud, who shows you can still be mostly wrong about everything you write about & still have good comedic timing :DI think Rothbard could show up in a future parody segment of his avatar in front of a blackboard trying to "modernize" an explanation of the levels of intervention (Chapter 2 of P&M ), with a hit or miss usage of modern slang. Probably would work better as animation, although the slides would suffice for the amount of labor (ha ha! nevermind, it's late...) required for such an execution
Thanks for the ideas!
fantastic, since the first issue I have religiously checked back here for the next. Please keep up the excellent work :)
Thats a clever cover :) Can you put a pic of you lifting a car under it? jk hehe.
Solarist: fantastic, since the first issue I have religiously checked back here for the next. Please keep up the excellent work :)
Ha, sorry. Couldn't resist.
filc:For example, I difference between deductive and inductive reasoning as being explained in a separate episode.
I went ahead and deleted the 3 deduction/induction slides from the first issue. I agree, it's too much for the first issue.
Conza88: Solarist: fantastic, since the first issue I have religiously checked back here for the next. Please keep up the excellent work :) Ha, sorry. Couldn't resist.
my brain, it iz microwave?
I find your Human Action Comics very funny and enlightening. I think that if someone has a drive to learn about economic theory, your stuff is spot on.
I do not however think this is in the scope that would be teachable to high school students and the like. It can seem complicated. Though, I do fear that it is as simplified as it will get. I loved it, and i will be referring it to everyone who asks me. Also, giving you the proper credit, I will be using it in my many debates about economics with friends.
Justin:I do not however think this is in the scope that would be teachable to high school students and the like.
It depends greatly upon the high school student's talent and inclinations. And what sort of schooling the student has had. There are some "high schools" here in Chicago that could barely be considered remedial grammar schools. Trying to teach any but the brightest and most self-motivated students from such a school the elements of sound economics would be tilting at windmills.
David Gordon's book, Introduction to Economic Reasoning, was quite consciously pitched at high-schoolers. I have some younger cousins who are all twentysomethings now, but I think they all would have been able to make a go of Gordon's book in their high-school days. It's just that their inclinations were so frivolous at that age that they wouldn't have thought of making the attempt.
If you think that Gordon's book is appropriately pitched for academically competent high-schoolers, then Lilburne's cartoon version of Austrian Econ should be a cinch. If.
Justin:I find your Human Action Comics very funny and enlightening. I think that if someone has a drive to learn about economic theory, your stuff is spot on.
Thank you kindly.
Well, I did say "bright high school students." But I would add the second criterion, "self-motivated".
Justin:Also, giving you the proper credit, I will be using it in my many debates about economics with friends.
It is SO good to hear that. Providing intellectual ammo to AE adherents is another HUGELY important goal of mine in creating these.
Sorry, no new issue tonight. This one is taking longer to construct in my head than the others...
Lilburne: Sorry, no new issue tonight. This one is taking longer to construct in my head than the others...
Quality > non quality
;p
Conza88: Lilburne: Sorry, no new issue tonight. This one is taking longer to construct in my head than the others... Quality > non quality ;p
Patience, grasshopper! :D
To paraphrase Marc Faber: We're all doomed, but that doesn't mean that we can't make money in the process. Rabbi Lapin: "Let's make bricks!" Stephan Kinsella: "Say you and I both want to make a German chocolate cake."
Very nice job with these Lilburne! I can't wait to read the next one!
OMFG! The part where Bastiat Schooled Ricardo in issue #2 was priceless!
Here's #4. Phew, what a way to spend a Saturday night!
Lilburne: Here's #4. Phew, what a way to spend a Saturday night!
The above link is the Picassa version. Here it is on Facebook.
Lilburne: Lilburne: Here's #4. Phew, what a way to spend a Saturday night! The above link is the Picassa version. Here it is on Facebook.
Morning bump.
Haha, these are great!
And I think this is definitely in the range of things understandable by high school students, being one myself.
is Lilburne the new Hazlitt ?