By Request Extra: Paying For What You Don’t Have To

In a text discussion last night someone reminded me that back in December the cartoonist Kate Beaton reminded everyone of a way to support her on-line work directly, at a time -- the holidays -- when her work was enjoying a high profile.

I think there's a general idea on display there, too, because now some months removed I'm encountering that same message again without the context of the newer work or even the immediacy of the request. Why shouldn't we give again when encountering something like this? I hope supporting artists this way is something you like to do, or that you'll at least consider in every case the various means of support available to you whenever and however you encounter that desire to be supported. That's selfish, I guess, because at some point I too will likely be asking for some sort of support for some project or another, and I'm constantly asking for your eyeballs in a where it's easiest to follow tailored feeds, but I do think it makes for a better artistic community if you pay in cash monies for what you enjoy whenever it occurs to you to do so.

The great thing about the Internet is that if enough people are oriented towards paying for things they enjoy and value, even super-modestly so, the numbers might be such that no one has to systematically seek this out. If you restrict yourself to what is allowable and push for maximum gain on your end, eventually the other side pushes back -- not because they're mean or greedy but because the collective has set terms they can no longer ignore. Besides, it's just nice. We take a lot for granted.
 
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