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The best long term solution to overbearing copyright is to create more content with permissive licenses.

E.g. David Revoy creates art using open source software: https://www.davidrevoy.com/

Just as Microsoft and Apple would no doubt have even more locked down OSes if there wasn’t a fallback of Linux, so the more competition for people’s attention that is not controlled by large corporations, the less bargaining and coercive power they will have.

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The best long term solution to overbearing copyright is to make people not depend on salaries for living.

Because else, all other things like talent being equal, a lot of the best content will be from those that have the income/time (afforded by income)/resources (afforded by income)/practice time (afforded by income)/etc to create it, and thus be given for pay, not with a permissive license.

Especially true for things that have different "production values" that cost money (movies, music, animation, and so on) - might not apply to e.g. poetry or other arts, or, in your example, to someone drawining comics (which can be done on the cheap).

So what should people be dependent on, if not salaries?

Perhaps you've missed the memo, but it has been discussed quite a lot the past 5 years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_basic_income

Good luck making Breaking Bad with a permissive license.

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