To See or Not to See

To See or Not to See

An anonymous reader poses a timely and vitally important question for anyone who is torn between not giving money to people who hate him and supporting innocent creatives who might be harmed by a boycott. Diversity and Comics and others have argued that we should support the few unconverged titles…
June 30, 201822 Comments
Death by Copyright

Death by Copyright

Yesterday I covered Disney's criminal underpayment of animators and called for the government to launch an anti-trust suit against them. Reader Man of the Atom reminded me of more unsavory Disney shenanigans that present another way to take them down. From Priceonomics: For Disney, Mickey Mouse is not just a…
June 29, 201825 Comments
Bust the Mouse Trust

Bust the Mouse Trust

Disney's recent financial woes just deepened to the tune of $150 million. After more than a year of waiting, animation workers will soon receive the first payment from the $170 million settlement they won from various animation studios. The class action lawsuit against the studios alleged long-term wage theft and…
June 28, 20189 Comments
False Moral Equivalence

False Moral Equivalence

A blogger finds fault with my moral calculus equating paypigs who sell out their culture for a pot of message fic to Americans who aided and abetted communists. “Stop giving money to people who hate you.” Brian Niemeier has taken this to an extreme: From now on, I will regard…
June 27, 201825 Comments
Overcome or Succumb

Overcome or Succumb

Background: Artist. Foreground: "Artiste". Forget everything you've been force-fed by the literati about artists being special snowflakes exempted from the laws of supply and demand because they serve only the whims of the muse. To succeed, novelists must be no less market-facing than plumbers or lawyers. Friend of the blog…
June 26, 201812 Comments
Engels over Ingalls

Engels over Ingalls

The American Library Association has removed the name of beloved American author Laura Ingalls Wilder from their children's literary award. Laura Ingalls Wilder's name is set to be removed from a major children's book award after concerns were raised about the "Little House on the Prairie" author's depiction of certain…
June 25, 201816 Comments
The Bowtie Strikes Back

The Bowtie Strikes Back

A major contributing factor to the rise of the new right is the total regulatory capture of purported conservative watchdogs by the Leftist media. The great sellout started with William F. Buckley, whose main job at National Review was making sure actual conservatives were replaced with quisling pod people like George…
June 23, 201813 Comments
Tradpub Death Spasm

Tradpub Death Spasm

Tradpub is dying, but a mortally wounded beast's death throes can be dangerous, as best selling author Lionel Shriver (pictured) discovered to her sorrow. James Delingpole reports: Publishing giant Penguin Random House has announced that its authors are no longer to be chosen on literary merit but according to a…
June 22, 201812 Comments
ComicsGate in Pictures

ComicsGate in Pictures

Chris Braly of Bleeding Fool provides proof of the SJW convergence at Marvel and DC that led to #ComicsGate, complete with visual aids. The following tweets were all posted by former and current creators with Marvel and DC Comics. It is utterly baffling to me how some normal people can…
June 21, 201814 Comments
How to Argue with SJWs

How to Argue with SJWs

Experience shows that the best advice on how to argue with SJWs is that you shouldn't. You should mock them relentlessly instead. A relatively recent demonstration from Twitter: Lesson 1: Do not answer SJWs' questions. Make them answer yours. As you can see, I set a trap designed to be…
June 20, 201810 Comments