The business is sponsoring a life drawing workshop.
Designers were tasked to create a promo flyer for the event — they went with that Jack/Rose/nudie sketch scene from Titanic (1987) as the “theme”. They posted the flyers on walls, doors and the company’s kitchen fridge.
Sooooo, naturally, my instinct was to mock the whole fiasco by sticking the below gag illo next to (and slightly overlapping) the company-approved flyer on the fridge:
Based on second-hand feedback, I sense the median of Workplace Proximity Associates lack sarcasm, humor, and/or the meaning of “parody” … pffft! I didn’t become a unsuccessful cartoonist to be popular, make friends, or make money.
A week or two passed.
I posted another gag next to the fridge flyer — this time, making a statement about designers (or anyone with creative aptitude) who now rely on A.I. to do what said designers trained, toiled & sacrificed for years to do.
Again, feedback was not positive… it was because either [a] my A.I. backlash ruffled a few feathers, or [b] there was no “spoiler alert” warning about the impending ruining of the film’s ending.