Nice cartoon, I like it! It sums up my experience too.
I've been hesitant to post anything after I reached a 60 rep - I heard that is the cut off point for Curie. Is this true? (Maybe someone can flag my comment so I go back down to 59... - just kidding) ;)
Hmm... don't really know. I have rep 62 and still get from Curie. There was some talk about artist guilds, but I haven't really seen what happened to that.