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The Taste Gap (And Why Your Art Is Trash at First... But That’s Okay)

The Taste Gap: You know your work sucks. You’re not wrong. But it’s not because you’re bad—it’s because your taste is good. Let’s talk about that weird little hell.

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Jason Chatfield
Jun 16, 2025
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When I first started out as a cartoonist, I thought I was pretty good. Not, like ‘Pat Oliphant hot shit’—more like ‘Mid-2000s Gawker hot shit.’ Which is to say: confident, under-edited, and mostly no…

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