Artist Complains About Criticism; Is Defended By Coworkers, Fans

In what is becoming a recurring trend, it turns out that we can't actually go a late Spring without some sort of IDW controversy. This time, /mlp/'s favorite artist, Jay Fosgitt, is once again a subject of controversy.

In a Facebook post, Fosgitt bemoaned a complaint lodged at him by a fan accusing him of using clip art for a cutie mark in a recent issue of a comic. This of course, was something that was proven in the past, so it should not have surprised him that it came up again when it appeared that he had done so. The post in full is here:

'member whisk cutie mark? 'member Starlight having Twilight's cutie mark?

The picture in question, from issue #54 of the comics, shows the Cutie Mark Crusaders in their clubhouse with very peculiar looking cutie marks:

Of course, this was just one of many issues with the comic, but Fosgitt decided to use this encounter with a fan as an impetus to close down his deviantArt account. While this story would seem pretty cut and dry with just this, there's more to it.
 

Suddenly, Fosgitt's coworkers started showing up on his Facebook page, telling him about the evil fandom known as bronies who are too into their headcanons to like your stories about Twilight letting a town get attacked by arsonists and thieves. Even Andy Price, the main artist on the series, had something to say:

"Fuck 'em"

Amazingly the parade didn't stop until the famous Ted "Resist" Anderson was there to give some head-in-sand support to a fellow IDW employee:

And then, by some strange occurrence hours after it was posted, the rant "mysteriously vanished."

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 Of course, this didn't stop the discussion, and the IDW coworker "love" continued on Twitter:

Of course, /mlp/ as usual was much less blunt, with one anon in particular focusing on Fosgitt's assertion that being approved by Hasbro and IDW was good enough for him and should be for anyone, one that really sums up where the quality has gone with the franchise's comics as a whole:

One Anon even took the admiration of Fosgitt to the level of his IDW coworkers and produced some loving fanart in Fosgitt's style:

It remains to be seen if after nearly three years of working on IDW's My Little Pony if Jay Fosgitt even enjoys the source material, or resents his employer for constantly piling work onto him. All this writer can say is that if Fosgitt wants to blame fans or IDW for people saying he isn't a good artist, he is doing himself a disservice as one. He should look critically on his own work he created in the past and ask himself if he has really grown as an artist and if an intensive work schedule has improved his craft, reputation, or personal health. Ultimately, there's only one person responsible for how his art looks: himself.

"But he is a good artist, he just struggles with MLP!"