Book Cover Idea (John Cox Art)

Book Cover Idea

This is another fantasy illustration of a book that rocked me. I read it for the first time when I was 24 years old and it changed my politics FOREVER.

Posted on May 30, 2008 12:32 AM | Permalink

Comments (10)

Bart:

You know, I've always felt that the various Atlases on the covers have lacked something. Maybe virility, maybe passion. This one is right on. Ship it :-)

Posted by Bart | May 30, 2008 2:57 AM

Posted on May 30, 2008 02:57

john Cox:

Hey Bart

I think I wanted to bring him down to Earth, which seems to make him more heroic, more understable.

Posted by john Cox | May 30, 2008 3:44 AM

Posted on May 30, 2008 03:44

Terwiliger:

Great work (as usual).

You're a better man than I for getting through that book.

The prose was so heavy...so Russian...to me it was the literary equivalent of those old heavy, pompous, plodding Russian marches.

I did scan it for it the capitalist excerpts, which I generally agree with...but I thought that she romanticized ontapanures (I learned that word in Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood) a bit too much. They're to thank for our material comforts, but in my experience, more often than not they sacrifice morally right for legally allowable in order to exploit advantage.

Posted by Terwiliger | May 30, 2008 4:49 AM

Posted on May 30, 2008 04:49

The Chad:

I like that, unlike the other Atlases, he is in mid-shrug, so to speak. That is, he does not have the world on his shoulders.
As a budding young entrepreneur, capitalist, and businessman, this book is it. The book that changed my life as well. I was it at 15, after reading fountainhead and anthem previously.

Posted by The Chad | May 30, 2008 2:35 PM

Posted on May 30, 2008 14:35

Martin Lindeskog:

John,

I used your illustration in my annual blog report VI.

All the Best,

Martin

Posted by Martin Lindeskog | June 1, 2008 5:44 PM

Posted on June 1, 2008 17:44

Bosch Fawstin:

Wow

Posted by Bosch Fawstin | June 2, 2008 1:17 PM