However, some creators of comic strips are also found here, as are some of the early innovators of the art form. Twitter user @YellowFlashGuy has produced a list of comic book professionals to boycott. I'm not sure abandoning a mainstream publisher to Comicsgate is the smart move, but there does come a point where a bar serves enough Nazis that it becomes a Nazi bar. 14 May 2019. Web. "Jan Feith." Lambiek.net. Another day, another controversy. Murdered scientists, put into their own experiments are reborn as the super powered GRAVEYARD SHIFT! Hey #ComicsGate. You're witnessing SJWs literally lie and slander to get rid of their competition. On July 30th, Twitter user @iwishiwashim12 tweeted,[5] "Can we just get off of feminism and social justice and actually print stories. Comics artist Ethan Van Sciver, who has been active in the Comicsgate community tweeted at Cooke, writing,[22] "Ive been pretty happy to mute people who are harassing me on Twitter, Marsha. Dynamite Faces Creator Backlash Over Comicsgate Alliances, Marvel Releases New Guardians Of The Galaxy Trailer, Danny Earls, From Gail Simone Tweet To Marvel & DC Gigs In Two Months, The Spider-Man With Dots For Eyes Gets His Own Spider-Verse Version, Hasbro Loses Their Minds By Dropping $75 Carbonized Star Wars 2-Pack, Spider-Man Receives Spectacular Wave of Marvel Legends Figures. BDGest RSS. -text my 11yr old daughter just sent me, bc I'm in my office dealing w/ misogynist bullies on Twitter instead of", That day, BuzzFeed[1] published an article about the controversy titled "This Woman Writer Was Trolled So Badly, She Left Twitter. I want to add that I know some of the folks at Dynamite and there are good people there. A shame as I've enjoyed doing Red Sonja covers but I won't work for a company who aligns themselves with c****g@te, Former Dynamite writer Tony Lee also stated. "Carry Brugman." On Aug. 21, a Twitter user posted a clip from an interview with deceased comics legend Darwyn Cooke best known for his work on DC: The New Frontier and tagged it #comicsgate. Chris Simms, Kate Leth, Britt Hayes, Andy Khouri, etc. Cullen Bunns statement I *might* go so far as to say most of the people associated with [Comicsgate] arent bad people, drew criticism for ascribing positive motivations to those knowingly participating in a campaign built around harassment. 15 May 2019. ", Bettie Page writer Karla Pacheco previously tweeted, "I'm very proud of the work our team has done on the Bettie Page comic series, and I made a commitment to them to conclude it, but Issue 5 will be my last work with its publisher unless there is a drastic change in company management. While John Layman, asked to comment, said, "my opinion on Comicsgate is clear and quite public. "Michel Weyland." Lambiek.net. Web. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. He regretted including gay characters in this grouping.". [8][5][17][14] The storylines objected to include those such as the "All New, All Different" campaign undertaken by Marvel Comics in the later 2010s, in which various white male characters that had traditionally had the superhero identities of Wolverine, Thor, Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man were temporarily replaced by female and/or racial-minority characters. N.p., n.d. Web. Some enterprising artists realised they could commission themselves to draw exclusive covers of such comics, get the publishers to print them, and then sell them online, or at shows, signed or unsigned, for a considerable markup. Jungle Comics by Chuck Dixon and Kelsey Shannon. Do not buy any comics from these people. The latest Tweets from Comicsgate.org (@ComicsgateVideo). It is part of the alt-right movement,[6][7][8][9] and has been described by commentators as a harassment campaign[10][11][12] which "targets women, people of color, and LGBT folk in the comic book industry". "Evert Geradts." "Wilma Van Den Bosch." N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Long live #CG stop the Grift. A low-rent spin-off of Gamergate that campaigns against superhero comics that include characters who are non-white or non-straight, female characters with small breasts, and stories that involve modern social themes; by trolling, cyberstalking, doxxing, and otherwise harassing any female, POC, LGBT, and progressive/liberal straight-white-male 193. 15 May 2019. . PROTIP: Jack Kirby, John Byrne, Frank Miller, Art Adams, Jim Lee, Dave Sim. Lambiek.net. Brutas The Badass is an epic space action comedy by Donal Delay and Nasser Rabadi, Brand is a love story set on the battleground of the war between Heaven and Hell. I pulled that we will find another home. 14 May 2019. That's all I have to say about that. " Much like GamerGate, supporters of the movement have been accused of using online trolling and harassment towards women, people of color and others who oppose their agenda. In his 2014 ICv2 piece If Comicsgate Ever Happens, It Will Be Catastrophic, Rob Salkowitz made eerily accurate predictions of how the movement would eventually coalesce around points of controversy or criticism in comics, including Frank Chos outrage covers inspired by Manara and a Marvel artist publically comparing Social Justice Warriors to Nazis. Lambiek.net. 15 May 2019. ComicsGate App, the first digital publishing house in the Arabic region and the whole world. Lambiek.net. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Marsha Cooke went onto explain Darwyn's comments, tweeting[20] (shown below, center) "Hi, Darwyn was on the record following this ambush interview that his issue was in retroactively changing characters sexuality for sales promotion. "Margreet De Heer." The list of creators who've previously done work for the company now . This is not calling for harassment, this is calling for wallet enforcement., Sometimes you gotta fight fire with fire. Movement against progressivism in the comics industry, "The Comic Book Industry Is Finally Speaking Out Against "Comicsgate", "Amidst harassment, indie comics publishers remain supportive of marginalized creators", "Edmonton comic book store links break-in to controversial debate", "Comicsgate Is Gamergate's Next Horrible Evolution", "Comicsgate: What is it, exactly, and what's going on? Comic book retailer Ryan Higgins also posted "I will no longer be stocking Dynamite Comics titles at the store. The post (shown below) received more than 520 retweets and 4,100 likes in less than a week. "Antoon Herckenrath." While Comicsgate has no official hierarchy, commentator Richard C. Meyer (posting under the banner Diversity & Comics)[4][14][16] and former DC illustrator Ethan Van Sciver[4][14] have been prominent advocates for the campaign. Lambiek.net. Nobody was threatened. "Picha." 3: Randy's New Obsession? N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. [14] Meyer participated in the backlash against the character designs of Netflix adaptation She-Ra and the Princesses of Power; he called showrunner ND Stevenson a "boyish lesbian" and accused him of re-imagining the title character as himself, describing it as "utter selfishness and egotism". Like Gamergate, Comicsgate has its prominent personalities associated with it, among them Ethan Van Sciver, a former DC Comics artist who regularly collaborated with former DC Comics chief creative officer Geoff Johns on titles like Green Lantern and The Flash. [39], Greg Hatcher, former administrator of the Comic Book Resources forums, compared the movement to the harassment that drove actresses Kelly Marie Tran and Millie Bobby Brown from social media, and noted that comic creators in earlier decades such as Jack Kirby and Stan Lee had also faced fan backlash for including political themes in comic books. 15 May 2019. Truly. [13][14] Threats of violence[15] and the vandalism of one store were attributed to the campaign.[3]. The tweet (shown below) received more than 2,000 retweets and 8,500 likes in one week. Web. Dynamite Entertainment asks for fewer minimum copies to be printed than Marvel and DC, so has been popular. It is also designed to provide a comprehensive listing of Comicsgate creators and creations. The return of CYBERFROG, awakened into a world seized by a swarm of murderous alien hornets. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. His previous summer's successful Indiegogo campaign for Cyberfrog: Blood Honey was late and had yet to be published. "Frans Funke Kpper." Many carried a then-new hashtag: " Comicsgate ." As movements go, Comicsgate was loosely organized, but certainly its most visible figure was one Richard C. Meyer, a little known,. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. "Jacques Laudy." Enjoy! "Uco Egmond." ", Others, however, criticized Meyer and his fans' tactics, calling into question their use of "accusations of pedophilia" and "homophobic slurs." Web. "As someone who has several planned projects with Dynamite, this has been very much on my mind lately. Web. ;)" The post (shown below) received more than 80 retweets and 290 likes in three days. Since then, Barrucci has sold a number of such covers to prominent Comicsgate creators alongside other creators such as Amanda Conner and Frank Cho. Titles such as Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur dont do great numbers in monthly issues, but more than make up for that via Scholastic book fairs. They use gossip, we use wallets. They wrote: On May 11th, 2018, Antarctic Press announced that they would be published Jawbreakers--Lost Souls by Richard C. Meyer, who runs the YouTube channel Diversity & Comics. Web. Days after posting the photo, the tweet received some apparent negative attention, with some users claiming that this milkshake photo was an example of politicizing comic books and superhero stories, causing a decline in quality. [21] In a 2017 video titled "The Dark Roast", Meyer referred to a female Marvel Comics editor as a "cum dumpster", accused various female professionals of "sucking their way into the industry", and described a transgender female writer as a "man in a wig". If the biggest idiot writes/draws/colors/edits a good book, it's still a good book. Web. Required fields are marked *. But this weekend, a wave of harassment aimed at a legendary creators widow prompted a number of writers and illustrators to rally together in making statements standing against intolerance in the comic book community. Web. Apr 27. 15 May 2019. "Jos Beekman." On July 28th, 2017, Marvel Comics Heather Antos tweeted[1] a selfie of her and her fellow Marvel co-workers getting milkshakes. "Comicsgate is the political culture war come to comic books," said Liana Kerzner, the former co-host of TV show Ed and Red's Night Party, and creator of Lady Bits, a YouTube show about women. Schuddeboom, Bas. [2][4][14], In 2016, female superhero Mockingbird was depicted on a comic book cover wearing a t-shirt that read "Ask Me About My Feminist Agenda". newsletter, Every movie and show coming to Netflix in March, You (again), Shadow and Bone, and Murder Mystery 2. We discussed and are not moving forward with the cover or the campaign.". MAGNERON, Philippe. Meyer also hosts a YouTube channel on which he has made numerous racist and transphobic statements in regards to comics creators, including Ta-Nehisi Coates (Black Panther, Captain America) and Magdalene Visaggio (Eternity Girl). I've seen it for myself. Please share on social media! [1][2][3] The name is derived from Gamergate, a similar movement related to video games. Or do you think there are alternative ways to making comics great again? To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Lambiek.net. Van Sciver has a history of online bullying which has been documented extensively, and has used his YouTube channel to promote his interviews with controversial figures in genre media, including Vox Day, a writer who led several successive campaigns to game the voting of the Hugos, and prominent Comicsgate voice Richard C. Meyer, who runs the ironically named Twitter account Diversity and Comics. Lambiek.net. Web. by Lambiek.net. God DC looks better and better." Having a variant cover of Vampirella with Cyberfrog gave him something to sell to his virtue-signalling audience in the interim. Lambiek.net. Enjoyed this? 15 May 2019. Knudde, Kjell. "Raoul Servais." Some creators had already taken steps ahead of the new controversy. Posted on Aug 28, 2018 Updated on May 21, 2021, 7:44 am CDT. Upon learning that some store owners had discussed their decisions not to stock it, he encouraged his followers to publicly post and circulate their names, locations, and employee information. In Aug. 2017, the event often listed as the inciting incident of Comicsgate occurred, when a group of female Marvel staffers became the targets of a wave of harassment after posting a photo of themselves celebrating the life of the then-recently departed Flo Steinberg with milkshakes. Reviving a classic genre from the Golden Age of Comics. Meyer became a ringleader of Comicsgate, which rallied around the argument that female, POC and LGBT characters and creators were ruining comic books, and pushing out the views and voices of . I know. 14 May 2019. But it was Dynamite's decision to promote the covers by running crowdfunders for them on IndieGoGo, alongside similar campaigns for other creators that caused significant disquiet from Dynamite's own comic book creators. Added "Johnn Bakker." The news comes a day after multiple artists and writers . He then called on SJWs to apologize for the harassment she was receiving. "Bedetheque - BD, Manga, Comics." Meanwhile, many traditional superhero stories that Comicsgate enthusiasts would like to see more of are the ones struggling to find a place in the market, and Marvels most recent blockbuster crossover Secret Empire was the second-worst selling event in Marvels history. Russell isn't the only creator speaking out about Dynamite's association with Comicsgate. "Arnold H. Lambiek.net. Throughout the weekend, Meyer and his fans expressed their disappointment over the decision and anger towards Mark Waid due to his alleged involvement in the cancelation. Meyer denied the allegation and wrote,[14] "Mark Waid has literally spent the entire day lying. Lambiek.net. 'i' It will take time, but trust me, we will get them., The goal is to get everyone who deserves to be on the list added. I am not a lawyer and I do not play one on the internet, but what research I have conducted into US law indicates that is not true. Rabbidmonkey (@Rabbidmonkey1) February 8, 2018. DC Comics is expanding into the young readers market with the upcoming DC Ink and DC Zoom imprints, following the immense success of DC Superhero Girls. I hope that they come to their senses. Lambiek.net. Which was enough for Higgins to be targeted and for his store to receive negative feedback, including telling Yelp that it had closed. Following the release of the comic book, _Mockingbird_'s writer Chelsea Cain tweeted, "Mockingbird is canceled. Rather than rejecting racism, misogyny, queerphobia, transphobia, or ableism outright, creators and editors . Others chose to use their own words entirely, like Ale Kot (New World) and Ramon Villalobos (Secret Wars, Border Town): Yeah, #comicsgate is a white supremacist patriarchal hate group developed and maintained to further those designs by the means of organized harassment and abuse. Lambiek.net. Knudde, Kjell. The post (shown below, left) received more than 625 retweets and 2,500 likes in eight days. I loved working with Dynamite. Web. The post (shown below, left) received more than 90 retweets and 340 likes in three days. 3. He is a massive Washington Capitals fan, lover of history, and likes to dabble in economics and philosophy. ", "There's An Online Harassment Campaign Underway Against People Advocating For Diversity In Comics Called #Comicsgate", "#Comicsgate: How an Anti-Diversity Harassment Campaign in Comics Got Uglyand Profitable", "Previously on Comics: Comicsgate Gets Aggressive (And Other News)", "Comicsgate is the latest front in the ongoing culture wars | J A Micheline", "What is Comicsgate? [8] ComicsGate Wiki What is ComicsGate? 14 May 2019. N.p., 01 Jan. 1970. Web. [6] He took credit for the firing of writer Aubrey Sitterson from the IDW comic G.I. If Vox Day produces good work, then its still good work. Lambiek.net. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. [1] BuzzFeed This Woman Writer Was Trolled So Badly, She Left Twitter, [2] Chelsea Cain 140 characters, plus a few thousand more, on the Twitter hubbub, [5] Twitter @iwishiwashim12's Tweet":https://twitter.com/Iwishiwashim12/status/891846302144884738. 15 May 2019. 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