The Lifestyle Artist
  • stok3r
    February 23, 2010

    First!

    I’ve got to agree with this, it’s sad that the only music remembered in 50 years will be mostly the stuff not worth remembering

  • isaac
    February 23, 2010

    The phrase “too damaged to recognize ambition” is worrying me

  • adam
    February 23, 2010

    I think this is the first time I realized, after reading your comics for years, that the lines scattered around the speech bubbles indicate tone, besides the standard bold for emphasis. And it’s really only with the “MAN” here. Though looking back I suppose it’s rare enough that I can be excused for my ignorance…

  • David Thomsen
    February 23, 2010

    I already noticed the speech bubbles, so I decided to look for something else I hadn’t noticed before. It turns out that Girl has an extremely odd haircut.

  • Alotron
    February 23, 2010

    I’d go so far as to say every sentiment expressed in this comic is worrying. This is some strange anger.

  • Joshua
    February 23, 2010

    They’re both right to a certain degree.

  • Brendan
    February 23, 2010

    Aha. Thank you for explaining the knitting craze.

  • Yoyelena
    February 23, 2010

    Girl seems to forget how the Calling first stopped being a Career…the Salons and all that. We’re due for another Courbet revolution.

  • rocketbride
    February 23, 2010

    as a knitter busily working away at my knitting olympic challenge, i find the idea that knitting can’t be ambitious a little worrying. oh wait. i meant ‘insulting.’

  • Jonathan
    February 23, 2010

    All those starving madfolks in garrets, even the bad ones, were (and still are) highly ambitious. Having a successful career is a very low, unimaginative ambition.

  • Dorothy
    February 23, 2010

    I think the idea is that ambition has become a disqualifying characteristic in artwork seeking to be seen as authentic. Ambitious knitting has no problem portraying itself as authentic. Nor does ambitious coding. Nor does ambitious teaching. Nor does ambitious entrepreneurship, gardening or amateur soccer playing.

  • Krimson
    February 23, 2010

    At first, for some reason, I read Grrl’s third panel speech bubble as “Most of those people starving in garretts weren’t very good food”. Then my contact lens realigned itself and I read it again and I was disappointed.

    I was going to protest. Those people are extremely good food.

  • Jonathan
    February 23, 2010

    I see. That kinda seems, rather than an intellectual stance, a simple emotional reaction: “She wears too much jewelry. I don’t like it. She must be inauthentic.”

    If the self-invention is more important than the self-expression, that is rightly decried as inauthentic. If the self-invention is simply a delivery device, then one simply uses anti-critical sentiment to increase one’s readership in defiance of…

    …oh. You’re doing that already. Right.

  • Jonathan
    February 23, 2010

    More importantly, when in the HELL are Cat, Boy, and the Beatnik going to reenact the opening number from “Once More with Feeling?” We have waited long enough.

  • eetmee
    February 23, 2010

    It’s apparently knitting day in internet comix:

    http://www.explosm.net/comics/1965/

  • a thom
    February 25, 2010

    Hey Adam, I think this is actually the first time the lines have ever been around the speech bubbles.

  • Marianne
    February 25, 2010

    That crazy and art go together is an illusion. Yay grrl.

  • Laughingrat
    April 8, 2010

    Grrl, being, well, Grrl, would surely not be fooled by the arbitrary and usually sexist/classist distinction between art and craft.

  • Abdullah the Gut Slasher
    June 8, 2010

    And the moral of the story is… a knitted sweater is not only beautiful and posh, but also warm and soft!

  • 1SpacyHammond
    February 16, 2011

    I wanna see what happens when Grrl reads Scott Westerfield – always assuming Dorothy can stand it.

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