Project 2
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The process for this project was super fun and interesting. I had never used timeline before and it was an interesting experience learning about it, how to use it, and how to utilize it. To create my timeline, I first went through the information I previously had obtained from our weekly wordpress assignments. From there, I laid out the information I had and organized it by year. Brumsic Brandon Jr. published and created comics for many different sources. However, I did not have much information on multiple of these places of publication. In trying to look through books he published, and were published early on, I skimmed through the books to find his comics and they greatly followed his mission and values. His book he published himself I could not get access to but I am interested in gaining access to see more of his work. This book was published in 1963 and he personally distributed it to family and friends. I dove deeper into his places of publications, like Freedom Ways and Black Resources. Freedom Ways has all of their issues stored in an online catalog. Going through, you can find Brandon’s comics within these quarterly issues. However, while looking into his publication with Black Resources I could not find much. I could find that he did publish with them about his political cartoons. In an interview with his daughter, Barbara, she mentions his publications and work with Black Resources and how much he loved it and believed in the cause. However, other than that there is not much electronically published on his work here. In further searching, I discovered that over two years he appeared on television. In a local New York children’s show he appeared showing children how to create comics and animation. Brandon loved teaching people and using children as his vessel to teach. I found it very difficult to find any interviews of Brumsic but did find one with his daughter, as mentioned above, that was very insightful to details that would not be mentioned in other articles. This video gave details to his passion for his mission and creating. It gave details into his work with Freedom Ways, Black Resources, and the creation of Luther along with creating after that. From that interview, I found out that Brandon continued to create until he physically could not due to Parkinson’s disease. His work was still being published after Luther had ended. The process of creating this timeline allowed me to visually see Brumsic Brandon Jr.’s life and publications formally laid out. The process greatly helped me organize my thoughts and information. Learning about his life, family and publications rounded my overall knowledge of Brandon and makes me excited to keep learning about him and his work.
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