There is a dearth of good art and storytelling in the broader art culture at the moment. This is because everyone is paralyzed by the fear of saying or liking the wrong thing.

^This is the subtext of the instagram comic I posted two days ago that led to a huge pile on.

And the backlash that ensued couldn't have been a more perfect demonstration of my point.

If there was anyone who read my comic and was inspired to approach art with less fear, the backlash that came after has certainly scared them back into hiding.

I'm being told that people think my comic was an attack on a certain artist. I barely even know who that is or what their comics look like. Although I feel kind of bad for them that many others seem to be identifying their work through my description of a weak comic...

This comic is a broad swipe at a certain style of mediocre cal-arts style comic that I, and many MANY others, see everywhere. The overhype of these comics is insane. "NAME NAMES, NOW!" There are too many to name, baby! Look all around you!

That, and the lack of GOOD ART, not just in comics, but in movies, TV etc. IS a direct effect of people being afraid to fucking express themselves for fear of something like THIS happening to them.

The white guilt shirt: this was a clumsy, probably hasty way for me to demonstrate a certain type of white neoliberal who exists all over American society, who lets his white guilt determine what he performatively supports.

This was not to say "brown people have it easy." I don't believe that at all. My point is that performative white people have a weak sense of self when they are constantly trying to appease people they think are oppressed. And that shit is fucking annoying and bad for culture, and NOBODY likes it.

I could have left that out of that comic and the point would have still stood. Lesson learned, never again will I allude to race on America's internet. People chose to read into that with extremely bad faith interpretations, but I can understand why some might.

I feel a strong sense of justice to the freedom of expression, and I always have. People shouldn't be piled on for a fucking cartoon, regardless of what the cartoon is about.

You are free to dislike, disagree, or even hate me. But save this kind of vitriol for violent serial rapists. Not artists making $20K a year.

Loving all the epic clapbacks!! Maybe you could put them together as an "Anti-Alex Graham" anthology.