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[Inspector_Spinda]

It is true they did. Police didn’t have female officers until the early 20th century though and even then they did very different types of jobs. Mostly desk work or answering the phone or as plain clothes officers. Definitely not on the rank or type of work as the dudes.

[therosesword]

Definitely. The "divisions" that the detective agencies had were. of course, women who could go were men couldn't. One agency employed an actress (big surprise there lol) and I believe a Russian princess.
There was a fascinating article I found once written in Australia about the British female private detectives. And there was on in the US who used to advertise in the papers. It's been ages since I did any of that research. And then, on the other side of the coin, you had the 40 Elephants Crime syndicate that was all female and active up until the 1960's or longer and way before the 1890's.

People are just too mired in that old Victorian stereotype.

[DarkChibiShadow]

Been making comics for so long it's hard to remember all of the worse ones I've gotten (I've gotten quite the handful, my memory is just bad, which I'm kinda grateful for in this context) and am honestly just relieved to see this thread and remember that other comic artists go through similar stuff to me! Hang in there everyone!

[Inspector_Spinda]

Now that I’m talking with you about it I remember a novel written in 1915 I think called Piccadilly jim and it actually did feature a female detective! And she was kind of amazing and insane like the one from Madagascar 3

[jimena]

That's sooo mean. I've had this kind of comments in real life and it hurts

[Carossmo]

Lol my comic was reposted here: https://imgur.com/gallery/xOs7f5e

And there had been some interesting comments on there...

^lol I wish I had one honestly... I'm working on this comic solo

^maybe not too bad tbh what do you guys think?

[CytricAcid]

Not on tapas yet-- thankfully! But someone on reddit got VERY upset at my drawings in which i put cat ears on a musician i really liked. Like, this was the stuff they were mad at:

They really didn't like it, especially because I'm probably a furry, and for some reason they hates furries. Anyway, the acted as if it was the most disrespectful thing you could EVER draw, and then said they'd rather have someone draw them realistically in bed with said musician. And I'M the disrespectful one???
I ended up painting this picture as a "fuck you" to them. Why they hate catboy memes so much, I'll never know

[Puck]

You have to find a way to ignore comments, it only does you harm.
I can only give one advice from making the mistake for a long time,
don´t read reviews, comments and only focus on your art.
You can get advice elsewhere and don´t depend on praise in comments,
it means nothing and just distracts you from what you should do, then
you read a bad comment or a hate comment and spend time on it
which you should spend into something positive like practice & creation

[SpavVy]

Other than the monochrome complaints I used to get and the "too-short" comments I'd say the worst one I got was from this individual who subbed my comic and just kept comparing it to Devil May Cry and other franchises like Black Butler and Bleach in every freaking episode. I asked them to stop but they kept going so I ended up blocking him so he couldn't read the series on that account anymore.

Thing that really irks me is I dislike both Black Butler and Bleach.

[TedGravesArt]

I think every artist has to read through years and years of negative junk about their art. One comment I remember well is "She looks like a man." Not the cruelest comment I've ever gotten, but it stung a lot.
Most commenters have been kind to my comic. I had one commenter who implied that because my characters have horns, they all screw animals. I think it was intended to be a joke, but it really didn't land.

[peach]

@carloswebcomic That made me so sad

[peach]

I had some commenter who would post homophobic and anti-Semitic comments on literally everything I posted once. What a charming guy that was

[jimena]

I just blocked an user D:.... maybe I'm too sensitive or something but I don't want that kind of comments in my story, comments like: "that hoe needs to calm down someone bring her a bong" or "did he grab Mark's pussy?"(Mark is a cat haha yeah real funny ) or "yeah hoe they be fuckin" And he was commenting in every episode from the beggining I got scared he would fill my series with comments of that type haha .-.
also his avatar icon is a man having sex with an anthro horse

[jamontoast98]

I have quite a unique one, you see a while back Nintendo started shutting down Smash Bros. tournaments, and then the Smash community started fighting back. The hashtag #FreeMelee started trending on Twitter and I made a comic in support of the movement.

For fun I also decided to post to r/nintendo, I can imagine most of the hate came from there but I don't know.
Here was one of the comments:

"Lmaooooooo the fucking audacity!

Melee players have historically been elitist who treated anyone who dared to play any other smash game like shit.
Us Brawl veterans haven't forgotten.

Now that your game is being punched out you want to spew this "were all a community Pleading face" shit"
(https://twitter.com/Fujin_II/status/1331848767436247040)

so yeah

[jamontoast98]

oh also I made a Daigo comic once (prominent figure in the Fighting Game Community) and some redditor commented "Reading this comic made me gay"
I made another comic and posted it, and he said
"this is so gay wtf"
I wish I'd realised before it was too late then I could have said "Well judging from your comment on my earlier post, you should be fine with this then!"

[jamontoast98]

and (last comment) on the #FreeMelee comic I did I ended up drawing one of the arms the wrong way round, and boy did people want to point that out

[Kann]

I'm gonna keep an eye out for this profile picture just in case. Blocking such "haha funny" guys is the best we can do about them.

[jimena]

His name was something like: An anonymous chap
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[Lady_T_Musings]

Commenter: "Why she gotta be fat though."

Me: "Probably bc I'm fat man."

Commenter: "Oh."

It wasn't that bad in all honesty but still made me roll my eyes.

[Rizzvatt]

I recently got one dm from a fan coming from webtoon or should I say, a long wall of text in which he tore down my English, it wasn't exactly a hate comment but it hurt a lot

It began with a long 700 words fancy introduction with lot's of fillers explaining how he wasn't obligated to give critiques but he goes out of his way to give them anyway, after the long fancy paragraphs of unnecessary introduction he started tearing down the dialogue in my comic Raccoon Heart panel by panel, explaining why this and that is a bad choice of words, at one point he complained why it was bad one of the characters reacted saying "No Way" because it doesn't fit in the context without coming up with an alternative interjection that fits, he kept nagging me about tiny details such as the punctuation, commas or the lack of.

Then he tore down the story synopsis telling me it's a terrible description, he even stated I shouldn't put my comic under the comedy tag if I'm not skilled enough to write in a funny way.

I don't feel like categorizing my comic as comedy was a mistake and comedy isn't all about the funny dialogue, it's more about the awkward situations characters are put through. The comedy isn't very present in the first chapters.

I know I should've know better but it's a lot easier to just say "In the panel 32 you should've wrote X instead of Y because X fits better in the context", that way is a lot more simple and a lot less degrading to the creator given that English is not his mother language.

Also it's true my comic gained 5.554 new subscribers in 27 days for almost no reason and that I should step up to show I deserve this unexpected growth but, at the end of the day I make comics just for fun, no matter how many people subscribe it.