By Matt Leone | Dec. 12, 2022
As a part of Polygon’s The Subsequent 10 particular concern, the place we’re taking a look at the way forward for the issues we cowl, we reached out to a few of our favourite artists and requested them to examine what video games and leisure will appear like in 10 years. Right here, comedian author/illustrator Daniel Warren Johnson (Do a Powerbomb, Homicide Falcon, Extremity) exhibits the darkish facet of consolidation with an illustration he calls Content material Killers.
“Sooner or later, companies haven’t solely gained a monopoly on meals, items, and medical care, however story as properly,” he says. “Artwork is gone. Content material is the brand new king, commodified to not change lives, however to carry the underside line. Honesty in fiction is a factor of the previous. However in small corners of the world, there are storytellers nonetheless on the market, sketching, drawing, writing, creating. Comics have been, and at all times can be, the nice equalizer.”