As artists, your work is copyrighted to you from the moment of conception. Unless you sell the rights: the art is yours. When a business reposts your art, they're suppose to pay you.

Don't let businesses, medical practices, nonprofits (your choice on that one) repost your work to promote their interests without properly compensating you. Tell them to take it down, or pay you.

If you, as an individual whose friends with me, repost art without crediting the artist: CREDIT THE ARTIST.

End of story.

End of argument.

When artists work to protect their rights and demand proper pay and treatment, it affects all other artists.

I say this as someone whose entire career was launched because I was properly credited on a post by @IFLScience that my editor, @EmilyFeinberg, saw... and then I got 1 book deal... then 4... and now I'm a professional author and illustrator.

Credit artists!!

This thread was inspired by a medical practice sharing 1 (out of 10) page with no context of a comic I did on my own painful experience with endometriosis for The Lily. They were incredibly combative and rude when I asked both publicly and privately for them to take it down.

Last week something similar happened where the same comic, taken out of context and with no credit, was shared because it's "cute". I asked the brand to take it down and they GRACIOUSLY did and commended me for my boundaries.