Wait... let me understand, you're upset that people don't consider your webcomic to be a success because it's a fetish of long toe nailed women and the majority of its hits are being linked from a fetish site. You're also upset people don't consider your comic "normal" because of what it's about.

First off, if you go to a message board and mention in anyway shape of form that "I'm a success" you're going to piss people off. Now some people will get pissed out of jealousy, because their comic isn't getting as many hits as yours, others will get pissed simply because you're walking into a message board and gloating (mind you which is why i'm offended). Outside of that, the reason why you're saying you're a success is also pretty bad. You claim art is about expressing ideas to a mass audience and now that you have a large audience because of the type of hits you're recieving you believe you are in fact a success. That's basically the equivalent of saying if you walk around in a chicken suit in time square wearing a sign that says "I hate Bush" and get on the news about it you're also a success because you expressed your ideas and it was accepted by a mass audience.

First off: Who do you think you are?

Secondly: What's the deal with this "primary purpose of the individual is to conform to some standard "normal" way of being." Stop, your attempt at rhetoric is coming off as pretentious and not backing up your point at all. I get it, your comic is different, you think people don't respect it because it's different and that bothers you enough to make a big rant about it on this message board.
It all boils down to this, if your comic truly was in fact "different" and a "success" you wouldn't have to make a big rant defending it. It's obvious you don't think it is or you wouldn't have cared at all what other people had to say.

In some points I agree with you: Yes comics can be about anything, yes you don't have to be like everyone else to be a "success" but after that I don't see what your point is at all. You're just bumbling around trying to make some arguement when at the core you're just upset that people don't see your comic as a respected art form and the only reason you're upset is because part of you believes them since if you didn't you wouldn't give a shit. You obviously really care alot about being a "success" and everyone to stop and think so and you like to blame what everyone thinks of you on being "different" and not the obvious that you're walking into a message board saying you're hot shit because some fetish site links you and you get more hits than most people.

So incase it hasn't been said enough times for you to get it, here's a clue. You're not special because you get more hits than people and no people don't think you're a failure because you aren't conforming to "the norm" so stop using that as a scapegoat. Step back and realize you're being rude to people to make yourself feel better and when they say something that rubs you the wrong way it's not because you're "different" it's because you're being a jerk.

Grow the fuck up (said this the twenty year old to the forty year old)

Or make a big rant about how I've wronged you and have no idea what i'm talking about and expect you to fall into the "norm" which is not bragging to people and not being rude to people who don't deserve it in anyway shape or form.

Alex