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Easiest comics in existence to produce. Just say something we agree with, no need to be funny or clever. People upvote because they agree with the message regardless of whether its any good as a comic (it's not).
Trans women are women, Republicans are ghouls, etc, but these comics feel so lazy.
Show this to any cultist, see if they agree.
Same for you. Stop complaining, enjoy the funny, ignore the rest. People have different tastes.
I get that feeling from 90% of this artist's comics, but this one actually made me chuckle. More importantly, I shared it with my mom and it made her chuckle. She is not as accepting of LGBT+ as one might hope, so this was not a given.
It has all the elements of a joke, most importantly subversion of expectations. I'll give this one a pass. Save your rant for the next comic ;)
Downvote and move on. I'm trying to figure out why so many people are actively campaigning against this artist.
She's a woman on the internet, so already a bad start. At some point she had a mental breakdown from all the harassment and threatened dmca or something else (I'm fuzzy on the details) against her harassers. This pissed off a lot of people and the internet never forgives. Whether or not her actions were justified and my opinions on the matter are both beyond the scope of this comment.
So anyone defending pizzacake gets accused of being a white knight. Those exist, sure, but you can also just see the harassment and come to the reasonable conclusion that's not right.
Furthermore, anyone criticizing her gets labeled as a misogynist. This is perfectly understandable, outright misogyny will get you banned so instead they just repeatedly insist on reasonably sounding complaints. It's impossible to tell the difference between someone who's actually a critic vs someone who just hates pizzacake for being a woman with opinions. To keep going, the overwhelming consensus here is that people would rather see shitty napkin drawings over ai "art". Funhole looks like ass, but people (myself included) love it. But for some reason all these people celebrating shitty comics and bad but human made art are silent when it comes to pizzacake, and instead everything she does is "lazy" and "uninspired" and "poorly drawn".
I think that about covers it, more or less.
Right? I actively defend PC because I just genuinely enjoy her comics.
And she's a fellow Nova Scotian.
funhole does not look like ass take it back 🥺
yeah wtf!
Because when someone has nothing else going on in their life, lashing out is easy and gives them a sense of superiority.
Go ahead and chuckle at the irony here lmao
How was my comment "lashing out"? It's a legitimate criticism. And criticizing a comic means I have nothing going on in my life?
Sure buddy, you're not lashing out at all in these comments and it doesn't sound like a person with too much time at all.
Oh the irony
Why shouldn't we point out shameless grifting? She's a Canadian who pumps out comics about American politics. And these comics are so popular they're damn near unavoidable.
The same applies to you. People are annoyed that this blatant strategy is succeeding while more deserving artist struggle to make it. You don't like people criticizing Pizzacake for doing so. We're all expressing opinions on a forum, nothing wrong with that.
Who are some struggling artists I can follow to help balance that out?
Yeah, this is a much more productive way to equal the playing field than to tear an artist down
Residents of other countries criticising American politics is entirely acceptable, given their massive influence on the global stage. My fucking fuel prices are obscene at the moment, and that’s a direct result of the current regime’s arrogance and incompetence. And my gripe is absolutely trivial compared to many other less fortunate recipients of US foreign policy.
I’ll take a simple protest comic over the latest bullshit headline coming from that shithole country every day of the week.
I agree, other people can and should criticize America. But that's all she does. She doesn't make any comics about Canadian politics, presumably because they don't get the same traction. It's a grift. Which might be fine if her comics were of good quality. But most of them read like this:
Surely there are more clever ways to mock Trump/Elon/MAGA, etc. It would be great if we stopped supporting slop just because we agree with the message.
So... The comic that is posted for this comment chain is about American politics? A kid dressing up in a dress and his mom suggesting a different colour... How is that about American politics?
So like... Do trans people not exist outside the US? The comic the OP posted didn't mention the US.
This Noel de le Pen sure has an interesting body of work.
https://t.me/s/noellepen
Even has a comic showing an interracial couple where a black man is depicted as a gorilla.
Finding common cause with them should tell you something about your stance.
Sure, she’s got a niche. There’s plenty of other satire available if you’re not a fan. If it’s a grift, it’s not exactly harmful.
I’ve watched plenty of absolutely basic comedians entertain a crowd in my time, but I don’t wish they were all Stewart Lee.
Shitting on America is a honorable thing to do no matter the reason.
Go be a negative Nancy somewhere else dude. Cheer up.
Shameless grifting? For being Canadian while doing US politics? Pretty sure the internet is full of those.
Isn't there a Garfield comic somewhere you should be railing against instead?
I mean, yeah, the expectation being subverted is the bigoted parent assumption, which is overdone, but the joke is still funny. And honestly, the fact that we can look at something like this and Immediately assume that the parent isn't bigoted means that overdoing it is making acceptance the norm in media, at least in spaces like these, which is helpful. The more we depict people being accepting of themselves and their loved ones, the better.
It's pizzacake, she gets hate here no matter what she does. Give it a few hours and you'll need a hazmat suit for this comment section.
Yeah, for some reason there's some real moral outrage required specifically for pizzacake. It's not enough to dislike her comic but it seems like they need to vice signal as well.
Positive messaging is great, that's not really the point. To reiterate: her comics are lazy as fuck.
We can praise the message of the comic while still criticizing it according to the standards of the art form. Maybe if these comics were less successful she would be forced to improve as a comic artist.
Just out of curiosity, what comic isn't lazy to you? Garfield has been around forever and he just eats lasagna and hates Mondays, that has less going on than these comics
Probably unless it's high production like Hollering Elk or something, everything is 'lazy' to them.
Also probably projecting because their stick figure drawings aren't making traction like xkcd does.
Yeah, when did it become necessary for a comic to be more than that? When I was a kid at the library I'd always immediately go to the comics section to see if there was a Garfield book I hadn't read yet - they're great. Comics can have a deep message if the author wants them to, but the idea that they're required to is kinda ridiculous. They're just meant to be something to get a little chuckle out of the reader, like a dumb dad joke or a pun.
I'm glad you asked: Subnormality (Political but actually good), XKCD, Poorly Drawn Lines, Olaf (funny but NSFW), SMBC, Adamtots.
These artists have something to say and can draw (with the exception of xkcd). There are so many examples of quality comics but you people keep upvoting slop. Yes, I am complaining about it because I actually give a shit about the medium.
Couldn't you just, like... read something else though? Clearly these comics have an audience that appreciates them, and you're not in it, and that's okay. Pizza Cake's comics aren't doing any harm to the medium; all those comics you mentioned are still out there for you and everyone else to enjoy, no one is taking that away from you. It's not some great shame to the art of comics for Pizza Cake's content to just exist.
Like, I love reading books, but I'm not a fan of sappy romance novels. But I'd never suggest that people writing sappy romance novels are diminishing the medium; I just ignore them and move on with my life.
If it's such an easy comic to produce, why don't you go make it then? Clearly people here like it as this post has many upvotes, and if there's nothing special about this comic yours should do just as well right?
I think Ben Shapiro is a shameless grifter who only cares about making money. Do you think I should go copy Ben Shapiro?
This argument doesn't make any sense. I don't agree with what Pizzacake's doing, why would I want to do it myself.
I think it would be a better use of your time to do literally anything other than whinge in the comments on a clearly popular thing that you don't particularly care for.