All My Hard Work

Yesterday, supermodel Iman, wife of David Bowie posted my comic on her Facebook page. Except it wasn't my comic anymore because someone had cropped mandatoryrollercoaster.com out of it. Now it’s just another Thing On The Internet.

Which is indescribably frustrating. I realize that Iman - or more accurately, whatever intern is running her fb page - probably didn’t alter my comic, but somebody out there did. It’s an action I cannot fathom: seeing something you like, and then taking the time to remove the credit of the creator of that thing. “Boy I sure do love Breaking Bad, but fuck Vince Gilligan! I’m going to make sure nobody knows he created it!” It’s absurd. But it’s something anyone who publishes their work on the internet has to deal with.

And yes, I just compared Mandatory Roller Coaster to Breaking Bad. I’m upset and not thinking clearly. Deal with it.

The absolutely soul-destroying thing about this is the small chance that she actually did see the comic, and the smaller chance that Bowie himself has seen it, and HE WILL NEVER KNOW IT WAS ME WHO DREW IT all because some shithead went out of his way to remove my credit from my own work.

It’s discouraging to see all my hard work amount to nothing.. Especially so soon after the Fat Jew Incident. I don’t want to put big ugly watermarks on my comic. But maybe I have to. A couple of jerks may have ruined it for everyone.

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