French multi-panel comic about persevering in art

August 27, 2023 6:14 PM

I'm looking for a specific, multi-panel cartoon, in French or in English translation. It's by a now-esteemed French comics maker. The message of the cartoon is to persevere even though you feel that your work is hackneyed or undeveloped, or that your ideas have been aired many times before.

The art is slightly caricatured or stylized, monochromatic line drawing, if I remember correctly.

This was published between, I think, 2005 and 2015. I do not know where it was originally published. I may have originally seen it via Metafilter.

posted by german_bight to Grab Bag (4 answers total)

Best answer: Have no idea whether I'm barking up the correct tree, here, but:

Any chance it's "Not / But" by Tonci Zonjic?
posted by Jeanne at 6:46 PM on August 27, 2023 [11 favorites]

Response by poster: That is exactly the one, thank you, Jeanne.
posted by german_bight at 6:52 PM on August 27, 2023

Neat! Thanks for the Ask, I hadn't seen this before.
posted by esoteric things at 9:08 AM on August 28, 2023

Came in to say “it’s probably not Not/But, but…” except I guess it was. Hooray. On this theme more generally, Tonci’s blog is a good resource.

Oh shoot, he posted a Charlie Kaufman quote that made me misty-eyed.
posted by TangoCharlie at 9:39 AM on August 28, 2023 [1 favorite]