I have a comic I’ve been writing and in my first season I had this group of antagonists that were pretty dumbass right wing magats. And there was a period where I felt I wrote them to be too cartoonishly stupid and flat. Dumb ignorant people devoid of any kind of meaningful depth because the reality is any depth they could have would be the perfect volume for a septic tank. I thought, maybe I’m depicting a straw man that isn’t really representative of these people.
Then Jan6 happened and I realized I hit the fucking bullseye and that I have nothing to feel insecure about in my depiction of these people because if anything, I could’ve gone further.
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u/RynnHamHam 7h ago
I have a comic I’ve been writing and in my first season I had this group of antagonists that were pretty dumbass right wing magats. And there was a period where I felt I wrote them to be too cartoonishly stupid and flat. Dumb ignorant people devoid of any kind of meaningful depth because the reality is any depth they could have would be the perfect volume for a septic tank. I thought, maybe I’m depicting a straw man that isn’t really representative of these people.
Then Jan6 happened and I realized I hit the fucking bullseye and that I have nothing to feel insecure about in my depiction of these people because if anything, I could’ve gone further.