Jim Barker, the 2013 Rotsler Award winner, makes his living as a cartoonist and illustrator. He wrote on Facebook: “A Google image search on Friday found 460 sites using one of my cartoons without permission or payment. This has stopped being funny.”
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Happens to me all the time … but since I can’t make money with my art anyway, it hardly seems worth fighting the entire internet culture. Fortunately, I’m on a disability pension and can just give the fuck up. Welcome to the Utopian future … maybe you can apply for welfare?