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Haters Gonna Hate
Sep. 3rd, 2025 02:41 pmI recently wrote a review of Adam Ellis's upcoming comics collection Let Me in Your Window, which is going to be released on September 9. I'll link to the review here when it's posted (ETA: it's here) but the TLDR is that the collection is good. It's my favorite book of 2025, and I love everything I've reviewed this year.
I've been spending time on Ellis's Tumblr (here), and he's so fucking good at responding to haters. As someone who reviews comics by queer and progressive artists, I get the sense that many of them (especially ones who didn't grow up speaking English as their native language) self-censor their work to preemptively ward off exactly these types of shitty comments from the Tumblr moral purity police. Needless to say, I'm always sorry to see this happen. It's so nice to watch Ellis snapping back at that sort of reactionary culture, and I appreciate him.
One of the main reasons I stopped drawing comics myself was precisely because of these sorts of comments.* But honestly, fuck it. If even Adam Ellis gets nasty comments based on aggressively bad-faith readings, then I think that's as good of an indication as anything that the problem is the haters. Let them hate. The mental illness of random people on the internet shouldn't stop anyone from drawing silly comics.
* Literally the one that broke me: "This person claims to hate capitalism, and yet they have a job."
I've been spending time on Ellis's Tumblr (here), and he's so fucking good at responding to haters. As someone who reviews comics by queer and progressive artists, I get the sense that many of them (especially ones who didn't grow up speaking English as their native language) self-censor their work to preemptively ward off exactly these types of shitty comments from the Tumblr moral purity police. Needless to say, I'm always sorry to see this happen. It's so nice to watch Ellis snapping back at that sort of reactionary culture, and I appreciate him.
One of the main reasons I stopped drawing comics myself was precisely because of these sorts of comments.* But honestly, fuck it. If even Adam Ellis gets nasty comments based on aggressively bad-faith readings, then I think that's as good of an indication as anything that the problem is the haters. Let them hate. The mental illness of random people on the internet shouldn't stop anyone from drawing silly comics.
* Literally the one that broke me: "This person claims to hate capitalism, and yet they have a job."
