I remember buying one of his comics back in the days because it looked cool, and thinking "sure is a lot of flag-waving and liberal-bashing in there". Then I went to read his blog and there was a cartoon equating gay marriage with marrying your own father or your dog... So yeah, that was it for me.
crediting plagiarist Rowling with Harry Potter is a little much. It’s warmed over Worst Witch with extra bigotry and a couple extremely tired Roald Dahl notes
If you read it again, I think you'll find there's a comparison to JKR but...these two things are similarly gross, but not the same.
Comprehension matters 🤷🏻♀️
FWIW, I did actually remove her name from the text, more because I don’t really need to name names here, anyhow. But the point being made initially was more about attachment to works once beloved.
Right, that wasn't the point. Whether JKR created original work, her name is on the covers & that's who people associate with the characters. If there were whispers that Dirk copied art from other places...that would still be the least of his sins when it comes to my patrons looking up to him 😾
This is phenomenal, and I love it. I feel this extra hard because my literal job is handing those influential books to kids - and I've heard from so many authors & illustrators about the people who inspired them.
Dirk's books went in the bin. Kids loved them, but we have a lot of books they love 🤷🏻♀️
Dorothy Sayers wrote an essay "Towards A Christian Aesthetic" which included the idea that you can't really process an experience until you could describe it, until it wasn't just emotions. That description could be yours or someone else's words/art.
Those words or that art might be trivial to someone else or be by a problematic person but at that point in time, to you, they were important because they helped you.
Afterwards it can be hard to realise that helpful thing was by a bad person, but doesn't make someone bad for having been helped.
