The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood Brian Box Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is…
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The He-Man Effect: How American Toymakers Sold You Your Childhood
Brian Box Brown brings history and culture to life through his comics. But what are the consequences when a developing brain is saturated with the same kind of marketing bombardment found in Red Scare propaganda?Brian "Box" Brown's The He-Man Effect shows how corporate manipulation brought muscular, accessory-stuffed action figures to dizzying heights in the 1980s and beyond. In his new graphic novel, he unravels how marketing that targeted children in the 1980s has shaped adults in the present.Powered by the advent of television and super-charged by the deregulation era of the 1980s, media companies and toy manufacturers joined forces to dominate the psyches of American children.
Bringing beloved brands like He-Man, Transformers, My Little Pony, and even Mickey Mouse himself into the spotlight, this graphic history exposes a world with no rules and