Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 31–On Art
I wrote the last couple of Director’s cut updates from South Carolina, where I didn’t have access to the original files and was only working from the web archives. Unfortunately, I was in a little too much of a hurry and skipped this one, comic #29, and talked about another one instead. So I’m going to go ahead and talk about this comic right now and then at some point probably edit the posts to make the order make sense.
Thomas Kinkade, for those of you fortunate enough not to be familiar, is an “artist” famous for his mass-produced images of gentle pastoral scenes. “Worthless mush” is actually a pretty good description. This mass production system includes artists who add bits of actual painting to the collectible prints he produces in an assembly line for sale in special galleries to (often) evangelical Christians. I always thought about the people who do these jobs, many of whom I assume went to art school. I’m guessing at least some of those people went through their early years with the same disdain for Kinkade and everything he stands for that any self-respecting artist has. My thoughts about their plight suggested a similarity to that of our heroic rice cooker, and so this comic was born.
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