💼 Careercow Andrew Dobson (aka Tom Preston)

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Dobson is a living guide for how to not be a successful artist.
Everything he does is exactly the opposite of what you should do if you want to succeed.
 
So, he gets pissy abut a french comic award, cause it does not honor women?
I did a quick wikipedia research on it. Here is what I got about Le Grand Prix de la Ville D'Angouleme

1. The award is handed out since the mid 70s.

2. It is only given to comic artists who are still alive and because it is a french award, it was given mostly to french artists anyway or rather the most attention is given to them originally. And for comparison: European artists are more willing to do social satire/commentary in their comics than american ones. Nothing against the american industry, just an observation.

3. While the award also goes to people who are from other nations (Bill Watterson won it in 2014), the number of foreign
winners is very low. Will Eisner, Crumb, Spiegelmann and the guy who did Akira come off as the other non-french winners I can identify at first. And guess what? All of them involved in social commentary in comic form.

4. It is a "lifetime achievement" award with the following criteria to even earn their attention: Work for at least 20 years in the industry and make sure most of what you produce is not generic garbage, but social, not tumblr inspired, commentary. And no offense against women here, but can anyone name one successful woman who as a writer and artist has created a socially challenging comic?

5. In 1982 the female artist Claire Bretecher won the award. Bretecher worked in comics since 1963 as an artist with Rene Goscinny, co-creator of Asterix, did feministic and social comics since 1969, got her own comic series that satirized french society and the feminism movement in germany and france between 1975 and 1980 and did many other(minor in part) things after 1982, till she retired in the early 2000s.

And here is a tadbit of information for you about europe: Female comic artists? They barely exist in France.
I am not saying that there aren't some working here and there and we have also a handful of female artists who do their own, more comedic thing nowadays. But I can't name one who has done really anything socially challenging or more artistically over the years. So no reason to hand out the award to a woman as off current.
And nothing agains the likes of Gail Simmone, but as long as the woman is not leaving the mainstream market and goes to france, she is not going to get an award either, even if her writing isn't bad.


On a plus side, Squirrel Girl will never be awarded by the French.
 
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Marjane Satrapi would be an interesting recipient of the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême at some point in the future.

But when has Dobblers ever promoted work by women (or by anyone except himself)? He's always bitching about stuff he doesn't like or inserting his gross bear into stuff he does like.

She would certainly be someone more deserving than Rumiko Takahashi, whose name is also thrown around.
Sorry if there are any fans of IY or Ranma 1/2, but if this award is supposed to be given out to people whose work has also a certain social meaning, I can't see Takahashi earning it. Her work is entertaining for entertainments sake at best in the way that it is wacky comedy or shonen adventure.

And in regard of the award again, I will give Dobson this: 30 people and not one woman nominated at least sounds fishy.
Especially when France has actually quite some at least to this list (and on that, I take back what I said about not enough women there.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_female_comics_creators

But this obviously turns again in people complaining why their favorite AMERICAN comic writer, who published a hipster graphic novel, does not get nominated, without realizing that the award is supposedly meant to go to people who are highlighted as artistic more integre and actually willing to tell also a story instead of just propaganda, with special attention to people within the european community.
 
I remember when that comic first came out.

The photo in question was found not long after.
Nice to see he really is obnoxious enough to wear a hat indoors. Nobody cares that you're going bald, a lot of men do. Frankly that should be the least of his problems.

Also, I've never been to a con so I'm curious to know if huge posters behind the artists like that are normal, because I don't see any others in the shot.
 
Also, I've never been to a con so I'm curious to know if huge posters behind the artists like that are normal, because I don't see any others in the shot.

It depends.
I was at a couple of anime conventions and in general some artists will have something in the background to showcase their artistic talent (like drawings of their characters, one poster or something like that) but in other cases, if there is just not enough room for it, they will also just rely on what they have on their table.
I am actually more curious at how he looks at the pic. His fear of expossure aside, he just looks miserable. As if he has resigned to his fate.
 
Nice to see he really is obnoxious enough to wear a hat indoors. Nobody cares that you're going bald, a lot of men do. Frankly that should be the least of his problems.

Also, I've never been to a con so I'm curious to know if huge posters behind the artists like that are normal, because I don't see any others in the shot.
It's possible but the most common are stuff they're selling attached to PVC pipes.
 
For someone who craves attention from people, I was surprised when I came across this older comic of his.

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What a douchey piece of shit. Incidentally they probably could have sued him for that.

That comic was drawn right after the spraying incident.

The stupid bastard probably doesn't realize that it exemplifies exactly why he deserved that spraying.

Since I can't resist any excuse to repost this:

 
For someone who craves attention from people, I was surprised when I came across this older comic of his.

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He wants to be a cartoonist, but he doesn't want to be seen in public. He wants to be famous for what he does, but he can't deal with the fact that people might want to take a picture of him (which, if you think about it, is a form of acknowledgement). A picture on a public convention, no less. He should be advertising himself, as much as he is advertising his art. Who would you rather ask for a commission, the guy with the smile, or the guy that is playing grumpy cat? Is is really that difficult do summon up an smile for the camera?
 
Marjane Satrapi would be an interesting recipient of the Grand Prix de la Ville d'Angoulême at some point in the future.

But when has Dobblers ever promoted work by women (or by anyone except himself)? He's always bitching about stuff he doesn't like or inserting his gross bear into stuff he does like.

You bring up a good point. Certain artists :lol: collaborate with all sorts of other people - and enthusiastically promote the work of artists whose stuff they admire.

Has Dobson ever collaborated with anyone? Or promoted the work of any of his peers? I don't mean, say five years ago - though even that's optimistic - I mean, more recently?
 
Not that I know of. There was some mysterious NDA job he went on about quite some time ago, but we've seen no evidence of that virtually anywhere on the web, and he likes to still use his collaboration with BrentalFloss as a means of "See? I can work with others!" if it's ever brought up.
 
You bring up a good point. Certain artists :lol: collaborate with all sorts of other people - and enthusiastically promote the work of artists whose stuff they admire.

Has Dobson ever collaborated with anyone? Or promoted the work of any of his peers? I don't mean, say five years ago - though even that's optimistic - I mean, more recently?
Beyond the BrentalFloss stuff, I don't think so.

To be fair, even back then, I don't think I could consider him the kind of guy who'd be willing to work with others. And I get the feeling he only did those comics for the money (assuming he was paid, that is).
 
Not that I know of. There was some mysterious NDA job he went on about quite some time ago, but we've seen no evidence of that virtually anywhere on the web, and he likes to still use his collaboration with BrentalFloss as a means of "See? I can work with others!" if it's ever brought up.

Beyond the BrentalFloss stuff, I don't think so.

To be fair, even back then, I don't think I could consider him the kind of guy who'd be willing to work with others. And I get the feeling he only did those comics for the money (assuming he was paid, that is).

Does Brentalfloss even count as a collab? I would have considered it a commission. I mean, what was Brentalfloss' involvement? Did he write the strips, or what?
 
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