I can see that you are going down a specific path with your work. In almost everything you create, you express that ineffable interior part of the self that yearns to be seen and to be made real by fitting into the world around itself, yet finds mostly brokenness and stumbling blocks and is ultimately frustrated. I can see that you also offer what wisdom you can about how to deal with this universal condition of the human soul. Your well-crafted, multifaceted characters indulge themselves in long soliloquies about the moral and ego and interpersonal questions that cause them to feel 'off,' separated from the world, longing for return, and sometimes they achieve this in quiet, sage-like ways. So much different from Dilbert, where each piece of content is about how dumb work is or Garfield where the silly cat makes gentle jabs at his owner because it shows a bratty attitude. Comics and cartoons in general lack depth, yet are such a good medium for conveying it. You do this better than most.
My question is: Do you think that this struggle is different in our times compared to any time before the mid 20th century (the onset of globalization and multiculturalism), and if so, how and why, and what is it that you want people to realize about it?
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I can see that you are going down a specific path with your work. In almost everything you create, you express that ineffable interior part of the self that yearns to be seen and to be made real by fitting into the world around itself, yet finds mostly brokenness and stumbling blocks and is ultimately frustrated. I can see that you also offer what wisdom you can about how to deal with this universal condition of the human soul. Your well-crafted, multifaceted characters indulge themselves in long soliloquies about the moral and ego and interpersonal questions that cause them to feel 'off,' separated from the world, longing for return, and sometimes they achieve this in quiet, sage-like ways. So much different from Dilbert, where each piece of content is about how dumb work is or Garfield where the silly cat makes gentle jabs at his owner because it shows a bratty attitude. Comics and cartoons in general lack depth, yet are such a good medium for conveying it. You do this better than most.
My question is: Do you think that this struggle is different in our times compared to any time before the mid 20th century (the onset of globalization and multiculturalism), and if so, how and why, and what is it that you want people to realize about it?
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