Yesterday, Marvel Senior Vice President of Publishing/Executive Editor Tom Brevoort weighed in on the harassment that caused Mockingbird writer and New York Times bestselling author Chelsea Cain to leave Twitter, suggesting the support that Chelsea Cain and other targeted creatives really need is more issue sales: It’s a frustrating response to a complicated problem that’s made all […]
A Tale of Two Entitlements: Is it Fandom or Comics That is Broken?
Last year, I wrote an editorial on Airboy and accusations of transphobia that were levied at that comic’s creators. Though I mixed in criticisms I had of Airboy from issue one, the main point I tried to get across was that the best possible strategy Airboy’s creative team could take was to listen and try to understand why fans were […]
Change in Speak: Comics Apologies and Learning to Listen
I’ve said a lot of stupid things. A lot. Even in the brief time I’ve been writing about comics, I’ve tweeted or spoken plenty of regrettable things. Sometimes it has been something embarrassing, but relatively small and easily fixed, like misacreditiation. Othertimes it has been something much more challenging, an opinion based on a lack […]