I think if I was an artist with a style that is as confrontationally crude & uncommercial, and aesthetically obtuse, as hers, published by folks like Fantagraphics, the "people only like this work because they know they're supposed to" thread is one I simply wouldn't yank on.
(Had dismissed the author of the strip on principle without even looking at the Eisner noms because a) I know that I don't get why half the stuff that gets lauded is lauded - see previous post - and that's somewhat on me, and b) it isn't relevant, that cartoon of hers was trash regardless...
...But I've looked now and in terms of the noms that cartoon could feasibly have been a response to, even where the subject matter or style isn't exactly to my tastes there isn't a single one who isn't showing Craft and Point Of View. Which I think are the only criteria ("pro"?) Art needs to meet.
Wait, what came first? The White Guilt t-shirt, or the Cal Arts adjacent crack... because both are pretty disqualifying as any sort of meaningful criticism.
It's a tricky one. It WANTS to be a lot more controversial than it actually is, because it's presenting as biting critique the most basic-bitch shit reactionary conservatives say.
(I think the artist is a white lib, imagines themselves as progressive, & thinks she's sharing a bitter lesson her "peers" need to hear for their own good. Because I'm guessing she's never encountered tedious centre-right folk on social media before.)
By making a mockery of an obvious lowgrade critique, it has rendered it impotent. Sort of like eminem saying he is friends with cheddar Bob who shot himself in his leg with his own gun etc etc
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Ramon is correct here.
do these
do these people not grasp that you can care about other people simply because.. you care bout other people?