PaulEberhardt at 1:20PM, Feb. 21, 2022

Dadaists thought of themselves as an anti-art movement, lampooning especially the pretentiousness they perceived in the artistic establishment. In a way they were the early 20th century's version of punk. Paradoxically, this kind of thing happening every now and again always benefits arts and music like nothing else. This said, I never considered signing my scribblings as trying to put myself forward, but rather as acknowledging them as my work, as in taking a polite bow to accept the applause (ideally) or, failing that, having at least the decency to stand up to the rotten eggs like a man. To me, not signing would mean chickening out - but feel free to disagree; there may be good reasons for not signing in some cases. I also put a year number under each of my signatures to keep track of my past misdeeds. :) Btw. I've always admired André Franquin's way of creatively using his signatures to have a bit of additional fun. I wish I could do that, but I've never come up with anything good.

Andreas_Helixfinger at 7:56AM, Feb. 21, 2022

That is the thing. I used to try to dissasociate myself from my stories only to end up associating with it more (Naming the planet my current stories take place on Helix🙄). And even before then I was incorporating my Helixfinger signature into the background, which come to think of it I haven't done for a good dozen pages or so now. I should really try to get it in there more often:P

MOrgan at 3:24AM, Feb. 21, 2022

There was (is?) an adult artist named Karsten who, instead of a signature, would use a unique background pattern. Back in the old dial-up days when pictures would start as a blurry image before becoming a clear, sharp picture, you could always tell when it was a Karsten pic because the shape of the background would be obvious.