The original magazine cover for this piece “A Man…A Woman…and 1968’s Most Terrifying Survival Siege”
Born to Polish and Austrian parents of Jewish heritage in Brooklyn in 1927, Kunstler is still alive as of this post (96 years old). His work in Stag magazines and pulp fiction paved the way for later historical and movie poster art (including The Posedon Adventure). It ranged from chauvinistic, salacious, exciting, violent to utterly absurd (see the Pangolin attack below) but with an undeniable flair for composition and storytelling.
I’ve noticed that on Lemmy when people get called out for being confidently incorrect there’s like a really high chance of them doubling down no matter how insane their original position was.
My favorite example was a user in the comic strips community just explaining the punch line out of the blue to nobody in particular. When somebody said “yep, that’s the joke” they immediately replied that explaining the joke as a top comment was a community tradition.
Like, what’s the goal in doubling down and saying things that are verifiably false? Are they hoping that being confident enough nobody will question them?