Isn’t the Internet a crucial tool to help this geographically scattered avant-garde… cohere? I understand the simple arguments apologists will make in its favor. But the Internet, and specifically Social Media platforms, undermines the avant-garde, it undoes the professional. It takes away your ability to make a living. It distracts you from your work. The Internet promises community, but in fact is engineered to foster alienation. For instance: Many people post their artwork online for free. (Or comics, movies, music, writing, etc.) But it’s not really free. The cost of your labor is absorbed. The value of the work goes to Big Tech. Everyone viewing your work has paid for whatever screen or computer through which they view your work, and also for their Internet access plan. But your audience doesn’t value you, Young Cartoonist, so much as the device that frames you. You are disposable. tcj/letter-to-a-young-cartoonist/
Posted on: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 16:14:29 +0000
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