I’m gonna miss hanging out on the @cracked After Hours set & drawing for them. 😢 Good Times. #cracked (at Los Feliz Cafe - EATZ)
Articles like this is when I think Cracked is at its best.
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how dare cracked say i’ve never seen this movie
i OWN this movie
mind, it’s on a combo DVD with “the wizard” but
I’m not putting this in a response to the tumblr post linking to the Cracked article that inspired it, because this conversation is bigger than that one example.
I find it really off-putting when people attempt to psychoanalyze creators based on their work, or ascribe motivations to creators based on the content of their work.
Sometimes, yes, creators are working out or expressing their own views through their work. But they can also use that work to explore things they find uncomfortable, explore other mindsets and viewpoints, or just delve into things they find fascinating. What we find fascinating is not always what drives us.
And heaven forbid anyone treat fiction without it being a plain-spoken moral allegory and heaven help the creator that is building toward future stories where their moral arcs will be completed.
I’ve seen this behavior used too frequently to vilify and smear creators. It is irresponsible and, I feel, ultimately dishonest. You can’t reverse engineer a human being out of their work. I’ve known lovely people whose art revels in the grotesque, the morbid, and the morally transgressive and I’ve known horrible people who churn out the most polite, sanitized, and inclusive work.
You have no idea how many people have come to me, yelling at me for what they decided I believed.
(bonus points if it’s the first or second act in a three-act story)
authorx asked:
Side note to that Comixology sale on Transformers: the mega bundle does not include The Death of Optimus Prime, so anyone buying that might want to grab TDoOP as well. It's still included in the digital version of Volume One, just not the individual issues on sale, which the Mega Bundle is made up of. PS I finally cracked and bought it because you keep talking it up, and linked to the free #1s. All your fault (and the respective creative teams, including the Windblade team). I hope you're happy.
what he said
Sometimes the iIllustration assignments I get from the editor for Cracked’s After Hours get reallllll interesting. Haha.
Go watch the latest one! 12 Horrible Messages Hidden in Forrest Gump
(I swear I always end up drawing dicks at some point with these freelance gigs.)
a ha ha ha ha
If a black actor is cast as The Human Torch, what’s next? Some guy not made out of rocks playing The Thing?
The 5 Most Insulting Defenses of Nerd Racism
News has broken that Michael B. Jordan (Chronicle) is being considered to play Johnny Storm (The Human Torch) in the upcoming Fantastic Four reboot. Naturally, comic book fans across the Internet are furious, because they’ve had it with all the reboots and just want to preserve the magic of the 2005 original — oh, wait, no. They’re angry because Michael B. Jordan is black. And in the comics, Johnny Storm is white.
The Food Babe is an authority on healthy food the same way 9/11 truthers are authorities on engineering. Among her creeds is that there’s “no acceptable level of any chemical to ingest, ever” (a real quote). But it’s hard to follow her advice when she’s been breathing copious amounts of oxygen for years, the big hypocrite. Her entire shtick consists on finding a weird-sounding chemical in a popular product, breathlessly pointing out a non-edible thing that apparently has the same chemical, and profoundly misunderstanding how chemistry works. And yet she has enough lobbying power to convince Kraft to change the ingredients (and color) of their macaroni and cheese, not to mention a veritable army of social media followers who’ll start sending us death threats right about … now.
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NOT-ORANGE KRAFT MAC AND CHEESE IS HER FAULT????
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