i can’t wait
Several years ago, Chris Sims made it his mission to humiliate me out of this industry, instigating a spiral of cyber-bullying that has given me challenges to this day. One of the things he focused on was my Punisher book from Marvel Comics—a book that editor Axel Alonso convinced me to make as personal as possible, including scenes of sexual abuse. This Punisher book was positioned, from an editorial standpoint, to be about my own life experiences. In the mainstream comics press I was universally savaged over this book, that Sims—now a writer of an ongoing series at Marvel—encouraged people to hate.
Sims also encouraged hate over my Cloak and Dagger mini-series—edited by Jordan White—which was eventually cancelled before it even came out. I later found out that White and Sims were friendly with each other while the C&D book was still active, and during its cancellation.
After everything I’ve heard about Marvel over the last month, I have no surprise that Marvel has rewarded Sims with his own series, because frankly the misogyny over there rather reeks from literally the top down. It’s certainly not just me.
And that’s the thing, folks—it’s hardly just me. The list of female talent and editors who have been pushed out of this industry is huge. It’s a scandal, and I don’t see it really ending until the way comics themselves are produced, distributed, and promoted changes.
Outside of the work I’m doing for my individual clients, or clients completely outside the comics industry, I really want nothing more to do with mainstream comics. As the old saying goes, I really have no more fucks to give.
Except for this: go fuck yourself, Marvel Comics. Really, really, really: go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself Axel Alonso, go fuck yourself Jordan White, and as for Sims…he’s not even worth a fuck.
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