![]() I did not sell the comics for money or profit from it. The comic clearly referenced Postman’s book as the source of the text component of the piece. Many people contacted me saying that I had turned them onto Amusing Ourselves to Death and then liked what they read. Judging by reader feedback, that is what happened. Hyped up after reading Neil Postman’s book in 2009, I intended to draw a ‘teaser’ comic which would compel readers to read Amusing Ourselves to Death in full. My intentions regarding Amusing Ourselves to Death were always honest. Let me step back and describe my original motivations behind the comic. The host pulled the plug on me.ĭrawing Amusing Ourselves to Death: motivations A victim of its own success, this spike in traffic choked the performance of other websites on its shared server (I had only paid for a ‘budget’ AU$30/year hosting account). The comic reached the front page of, and 31,500 readers accessed the comic within a 3 hour window. Word of mouth spread, and a lot of eyeballs were pointed my way.Īfter a relatively quiet few days on the web (albeit with a good response from regular readers), things soon went bananas. The second factor was the reader response, which was quite unlike anything I had seen before. ![]() Firstly I rose to the game of conveying the story through my artwork. One of the ones that made me pull up my socks. The comic was also a milestone of my back catalogue. The only one not fully written and drawn by me. A piece of my back catlogue which I am walking away from.Ī selection of drawings (minus Postman’s text) are interspersed throughout this post.Īmusing Ourselves to Death: a cover versionĪmusing Ourselves to Death was an anomaly of my back catalogue. What follows are some reflections on a comic which has been removed from the internet. Respecting their wishes, I removed the comic without hesitation. I proactively contacted them, and received notification that they would prefer the comic was removed. After 2.5 years in the wild, I decided it was time to formally clarify my position with the copyright holder regarding their feelings on the piece. This comic was respectfully removed from my website in March 2012 due to the wishes of the Neil Postman’s estate. ![]() It suggests that the greater danger to society is not the iron fist of government from Orwell’s vision, but the attention-sapping distractions of technology depicted by Huxley. The passage compares the futuristic visions of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. It was an adaptation of the foreword to Neil Postman‘s Amusing Ourselves to Death, a book originally published in 1985. Long-time readers will remember a comic I posted in May 2009 called Amusing Ourselves to Death. The Amusing Ourselves to Death comic: Neil Postman’s ‘Orwell versus Huxley’
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