So everyone loves you, Kap, especially around here. Trying to bring attention to the plight, you know? It’s a good thing, bringing the attention you’ve amassed for yourself to point out injustice.
It was a joy to see you on the floor of the San Diego show last week, lifting up POC and marginalized creators. Everyone there seemingly has a pic of you shmoozing and I personally loved you talking to Orlando and Josh and giving my kid a nod for his books next to them as you chatted. You really seemed to give a shit when you visited the AiT/1First endcap that anchors the Independent Press Pavilion.
Which is why it’s a little off-brand for you that you got all those tech bros to give you 4m to fund an AI platform to crap out stolen nonsense instead of take that four mil and start a Comics Masterclass for everyone to fucking learn how to write and draw and color and letter and do print management and contract-and-copyrights and insurance for freelancers and a basic tax class and just have a curriculum taught by experts in the field but you’re just an opportunistic jackass like everyone else.
So much for a meritocracy.
An Open Letter to Colin Kaepernick
