edit: I simply wish to enjoy comics, and I hope others can enjoy them too, without having to do a full background check on the author of the comic, keeping the community simple and nice. This should be like a library of good comics.
I understand your desire, but life does not exist in a vacuum. While death of the artist may be easy for you, it is not as simple of an equation for others, especially when said author still lives and benefits monetarily from their creation. And yes, I think we have some culpability even in what we share for free, as keeping them culturally relevant allows their benefits and influence to continue.
Personally, I was a big Dilbert fan; my parents used to gift me a new Dilbert calendar annually and I subscribed to the Washington Post for years in no small part so I could read the weekly Dilbert strip. So I’ll admit it, I take this particular betrayal a little personally. Finding out that Scott Adams was a racist bag of shit felt like hearing that my favorite uncle was actually an non-convicted rapist.
For what it’s worth though, I am sorry that Scott Adam’s gross personal abhorrent opinions get in the way of enjoying your silly office humor comic strip, sincerely.
I don’t get it though. The introduction and context outside the comic are insanely biased, but the comic itself, without context, seems fine? Granted I’m not American, so I might be missing something
Right. But libraries have books that talk about other books. In the same way, it’s fair to have discussion sections that discuss the comic strip’s authors. Otherwise, the discussion sections will just be full of things like: “This!” or “OMG so relatable” etc.
Not again? Last time was stonetoss. If you are this disconnected maybe do a quick “is this artist a well known bigot” web search before posting from here on.
Just a reminder that Dilbert creator Scott Adams is a racist conservative bigot
On the upside, he inspired an interesting couple episodes of behind the bastards about himself
Oh no, not again.
edit: I simply wish to enjoy comics, and I hope others can enjoy them too, without having to do a full background check on the author of the comic, keeping the community simple and nice. This should be like a library of good comics.
I understand your desire, but life does not exist in a vacuum. While death of the artist may be easy for you, it is not as simple of an equation for others, especially when said author still lives and benefits monetarily from their creation. And yes, I think we have some culpability even in what we share for free, as keeping them culturally relevant allows their benefits and influence to continue.
Personally, I was a big Dilbert fan; my parents used to gift me a new Dilbert calendar annually and I subscribed to the Washington Post for years in no small part so I could read the weekly Dilbert strip. So I’ll admit it, I take this particular betrayal a little personally. Finding out that Scott Adams was a racist bag of shit felt like hearing that my favorite uncle was actually an non-convicted rapist.
For what it’s worth though, I am sorry that Scott Adam’s gross personal abhorrent opinions get in the way of enjoying your silly office humor comic strip, sincerely.
His racism and abhorrent views have leaked into his content, there is no separating the art from the artist here.
Didn’t leak into this particular comic strip though
This is not a coincidence, though. I would not post or allow racist comics in this community.
I know about his racist rants, do you have some examples of affected comics? Too many unrelated results on Google
https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2022/05/03/dilbert-presents-black-character-gets-dragged/
I don’t get it though. The introduction and context outside the comic are insanely biased, but the comic itself, without context, seems fine? Granted I’m not American, so I might be missing something
context is a bitch isnt it
Right. But libraries have books that talk about other books. In the same way, it’s fair to have discussion sections that discuss the comic strip’s authors. Otherwise, the discussion sections will just be full of things like: “This!” or “OMG so relatable” etc.
Not again? Last time was stonetoss. If you are this disconnected maybe do a quick “is this artist a well known bigot” web search before posting from here on.