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Subject: "You are way too invested in the weight of your opinion."

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Castro
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51. "You are way too invested in the weight of your opinion."
In response to In response to 48

Maybe I would be none the wiser if I wasn't married to a working artist who is an Art Professor.

But you're throwing around "easy" and I'm still waiting to see your easily created finished book-length work.

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Why are most black comics drawn so poorly (shitting on artists) [View all] , MEAT, Fri Mar-25-16 07:28 AM

Subject	Author	Message Date	ID
because the first place to get arts cut	ToeJam	Mar 25th 2016	1
Adding to this	Atillah Moor	Mar 25th 2016	4
post your shit.	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	25
Lol man you want that art battle. MEAT gotta go first.	Atillah Moor	Mar 25th 2016	33
meat did a five minute sketch:	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	34
I can recognize your linework from a mile away.	Atillah Moor	Mar 25th 2016	36
this was a sketch on my phone. I'm not digging for my panels.	Atillah Moor	Mar 25th 2016	38
you bullshittin.	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	40
It's mine. Just landed. I was being petty.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	45
wrong!!! that's MEAT's	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	39
You hating on David Miller and he's sold 20,000 of those books	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	2
RE: You hating on David Miller and he's sold 20,000 of those books	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	12
Its a book for 4-8 year olds...its not supposed to look like Moebius.	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	17
It's also not supposed to look like poorly drawn work from the 90s	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	20
oh shit, we bout to start posting art?!	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	24
hol up. i got too excited, this a comic book thread.	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	26
So you're an art critic. Great. You've done us all a service here toda...	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	28
MEAT sends a gift to Castro.	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	32
Is he a critic or an artist shitting on other artists???	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	35
he say 'he a fan that wants artists to do better'. there's more:	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	41
And you hating on Akinseye too?	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	3
Can you explain the shading and shoes?	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	13
How about I send this link to the artist so he can explain it to you?	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	19
If you should so choose.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	22
Post your work that you have published, please.	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	5
this a slippery slope.	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	6
when they are an artist themselves....i expect the criticism to be valid...	tomjohn29	Mar 25th 2016	7
I'm pretty sure that's not how Criticism (capital C) works.	Teknontheou	Mar 25th 2016	8
it definitely should be a part...a big part	tomjohn29	Mar 25th 2016	10
No, he showed examples of what he considered poor art,	Teknontheou	Mar 25th 2016	14
Nah. I'm not a rapper and I can say that G-Eazy is terrible.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	16
Sorry Duke, these cats grind year round at these conventions	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	15
Get out of town.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	18
there's a lot of rappers that grind hard as fuck but are still 2nd rate	PoppaGeorge	Mar 25th 2016	56
I don't thimk that's fair and actaully hurts 'art'	AFRICAN	Mar 25th 2016	21
i think castro's motivation is a bit more nuanced.	Kwesi	Mar 25th 2016	23
I'm not saying they are above critique.	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	27
I see your point	AFRICAN	Mar 25th 2016	30
Im no artist, but these all look good to me.	DavidHasselhoff	Mar 25th 2016	9
Sanford Greene is doing great work (of course) on Power Man & Iron Fist	philpot	Mar 25th 2016	11
"Meanwhile I keep coming across white artists doing black comic art"	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	29
RE: "Meanwhile I keep coming across white artists doing black comic art"	WarriorPoet415	Mar 25th 2016	31
Its shit to him but there were 150 lined up outside the Schomburg	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	37
this is not a strong argument	MiracleRic	Mar 25th 2016	42
what does that have to do with anything?	SeV	Mar 25th 2016	43
...	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	47
Huff. It doesn't have to be the best art to be good.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	48

The easy was not in reference to the totality of the work.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	57
Just looked up Mind MGMT. Thats not bad art. It's a style	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	61
You've written a lot and you have good points.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	46
If its that easy, please link us to your books. Please do.	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	49
I've already explained my point.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	52
Cool, let's meet up then.	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	54
!!	SeV	Mar 25th 2016	58
Yes two grown men are about to fist fight over a difference in comic art	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	59
......notice he ain't cosign u	SeV	Mar 25th 2016	64
Happy hour gonna stay happy.	Castro	Mar 25th 2016	65
Lol	The Wordsmith	Mar 26th 2016	72
RE: "Meanwhile I keep coming across white artists doing black comic...	MEAT	Mar 26th 2016	68
Check out Markus Prime	Johnny	Mar 25th 2016	44
Will do. Thank you.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	53
Low threshold for entry.	Monkey Genius	Mar 25th 2016	50
RE: Low threshold for entry.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	55
I'm vaguely connected to that world, so I won't go in on individuals.	Monkey Genius	Mar 25th 2016	60
I'm not dissing or snarking but the hands and feet weren't that bad	Atillah Moor	Mar 25th 2016	62
I kept sending that fool pictures and the plane was messing it up.	MEAT	Mar 25th 2016	63
shoot my boy is doing great work with bounce	madwriter	Mar 26th 2016	66
I've definitely checked his stuff	MEAT	Mar 26th 2016	67
RE: shoot my boy is doing great work with bounce	MEAT	Mar 26th 2016	69
cause its hard and time consuming	hardware	Mar 26th 2016	70
Convention recap	MEAT	Mar 26th 2016	71
I can see what you're talking about.	The Wordsmith	Mar 26th 2016	73

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