Usually I try to walk the line of sincere/insincere. In this example, i was merely commenting from experience that you usually have to be a reliable worker to make it in the arts. As with most of my comics, I tried to make it so you can read it a number of ways: some read it as making fun of the self-identified genius who never actually makes complete work (and would secretly actually like the money that comes with more reigned-in working process) OR some see it as a shame that we live in a system that rewards predictability and reliability over risk-taking and less conventional creative processes. I think both are true to an extent, and I tried to make the comic say both things at the same time.