It’s no secret that everyone thinks that what *they* do is as high as you can go artistically, but when you make a point of publicly dressing down anyone who does it differently as being “sheep” who must be “from the suburbs” (because Lord knows no one who’s middle class has ever created anything worthwhile) you’ve crossed the line from being principled to simply using your success and fame to throw your opinion around (usually to an online “crowd” of worshippers who’ll forgive you anything.)

John K. begins his blog by drawing completely arbitrary lines between “illustrators”, “design-y illustrators”, and “cartoonists”, then rants for the rest of the page that artists going back seventy years have failed to fall on the side of the line that he finds acceptable. I enjoy the man’s work, but somebody needs to find John K. a porch that he can rattle his cane at people from.