uhhh that's too hard of a question
I honestly don't understand how you managed to read this comic that way ? He is clearly denouncing it, not the other way around. The first couple is clearly the victim here, they are the helpless ones (they are the ones with the happy faces, while the other couple is angry). It's not that good a comic but the intent is similar to the one you can find in this:
Nothing deep, but it's denouncing society forcing people to act/think in a precise way
How do you see a comic where a straight couple is throwing an LGBT couple into a meat grinder to force them to conform as a pro-conformity message?
....how do you read that comic like that when it obviously is criticizing the act of conforming.
Some of his comic have a very cryptic message but that one, and the other you posted, couldn't be any more clearly anti-conformity.
"He's pretty shit at his job because I misinterpreted his work" is an unnecessary and weak attempt to deflect from your mistake.
But they're being forced to conform in the end, they don't want to. This is a bad thing. This is not a good thing. Those comic have sad endings.
Gonna requote this for a new page.
I'd just like to chime in and say that his style is very Belgian, in that it both inherits absurdism of classic Margritte
but is also influenced by the 80's - 90's weekly comics of Cowboy Henk which is often offensive and not always "haha" funny.
He's from the same "school" of artists like Jeroom, who publishes in the same magazine as Cowboy Henk (as does he) and who also does comics stuff for Adult Swim and sometimes uses similar absurd humor.
Here's some other stuff the artist did:
For brussels gay pride:
And for the Queer love festival
Art can be misinterpreted and that's fine. Not every work is meant to be as simple as a connect the dots puzzle. It doesn't mean that the artist is shit.
This clearly had a message and that message is lost, so yeah. The comic that kicked off this discussion is shit either way.
Eh, I get what you mean if you're just looking at OPs and thread titles, but I find there's still a decent range of replies in nearly every thread.
Seems pretty clear to me, trans has little/nothing to do with it (aside from maybe using them as something "goofy" to represent something the comic sees as negative, in this case journalists). The comic is spreading Trump's propaganda that journalists lie ("fake news!") - these ones see the truth coming so must hide from it to tell their lies.
What if the truth is something that's plainly obvious and staring right at our faces, like anthropomorphic climate change, and the journalists are people who work for Rupert Murdoch-owned rags like The Sun, News Corp, and Fox News?
The comic doesn't target specific journalists, it doesn't show any anthropomorphic climate change. it's just spreading the propaganda about journalists lieing.
I don't disagree, but you should also consider the power of suggestion: the thread title primed you to expect something transphobic. Would you have perceived it as transphobic or potentially transphobic had you seen it stand-alone? Maybe.
Because it's Trump's propaganda that journalists lie, which is what the comic is showing us. I don't see how Adult Swim posting a single comic showing this, in these days, could *not* be trying to promote Trump's propaganda.
