@claytonbarton No I don't really understand what this guy @jugjugbanks is talking about either. I can understand if he drew a sherlock holmes movie tribute for a publisher who didn't have the rights for the material that this could have been a little traumatizing when their was no payday at the end but when he criticizes politeness like it's some form of obsequiousness and rants incoherently about other people's unprofessionalism then I really think he needs to stop and take a reality check. Politeness smooths the wheels and leaves the person, who employs politeness as a standard approach in their dealings with others, free to be relaxed enough to focus entirely on their work. And not on smashing their drawing table or tablet.
I think every finished product, regardless of the medium used, comes from the artist's unique viewpoint and while many people think Van Gogh was a genius. Too me he drew like he acted. Like an unstable nut.
Actually you probably don't know much about the Australian comics scene and what professionalism in comics means. If you have not been paid a professional wage for doing comics you can make statements about professionalism, and when people are being *actually* polite, or when something else is going on. For example if you have ever sat at an editor's desk while being paid by a publishing company. (you might have; unlikely but possible.) If not, then not.
There have been more than a few comics from Down Under which actually are nothing more than rip offs of other material. They don't make any money. They don't help the artists whom have worked on them.
Also,I think you misused "obsequious" in the context of your retort, as well. I did not refer to polite behaviour or paint it in any way, I stated that there could be pseudo polite behaviour, which is passive aggressive and dissembling. Dissembling is not synonomous with obsequious.
As for "reality check", if you have received a royalty check for comics over $150 then you can talk about checks, of any kind, in comics. If not, then not.
I didn't say at any point that Clayton's work isn't good. But it's comic samples from someone who is a game artist.
As for the other stuff RE "you don't know what I'm talking about", if it's stuff like Fitzroy and Brunswick references? Those are suburbs in the area of Australia where Clayton hails from, well known for a few comic artists and a lot of cartoonists. Those places are as well known to Aussies as places like "Haight Ashbury" or "Jack London Square" or "The French Quarter" are known to people in the USA.
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