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2017 saw some voices of varying importance rise up on YouTube to criticize the Comics Industry.
Douglas Ernst, Diversity & Comics and Captain Frugal offered insight and ideas that were adopted by many, and built upon. Ernst and D&C went on to realize that publishing...
Douglas Ernst, Diversity & Comics and Captain Frugal offered insight and ideas that were adopted by many, and built upon. Ernst and D&C went on to realize that publishing...
...was the inevitable solution to the problems they wrote and talked about, and they did that. (Still waiting on Frugal to invent a comic!)
Jon Malin and I joined the cause because we were forced to by these realities. We began to crowdfund new comics that weren't SJW.
Jon Malin and I joined the cause because we were forced to by these realities. We began to crowdfund new comics that weren't SJW.
They were incredibly successful, and others asked to join us. Doug TenNapel, Mike S. Miller, Art Thibert, etc.
Some lesser voices on YouTube resented their arrival, felt that we'd "hijacked their movement," and complained bitterly as their numbers and viewership dropped.
Some lesser voices on YouTube resented their arrival, felt that we'd "hijacked their movement," and complained bitterly as their numbers and viewership dropped.
They felt and still feel that ComicsGate was meant to be "for the customers," but as the mainstream wasn't going to adapt to their wishes, it has to be asked,
"The Customers" of WHAT? There's no product that meets their needs coming from the mainstream.
"The Customers" of WHAT? There's no product that meets their needs coming from the mainstream.
People who agreed with Diversity & Comics about the problems in the industry joined him in creating a new industry that would circumvent blacklisting, predatory publishing practices and bad actors with extremist politics.
By adopting a simple set of standards, a code...
By adopting a simple set of standards, a code...
...ComicsGate has become wildly successful as a business enterprise. It is the answer to the power imbalance between the customer and a stubborn, "resistant" mainstream, and is making it possible for new talent to emerge on their own terms.
There are still voices on YouTube that are bitter about this, but I can't understand why.
They won. We did it.
It'd be great to say we did it together, and to keep fighting as a group!
But we're going to keep fighting regardless. Why stop when we're winning? #ComicsGate🐸
They won. We did it.
It'd be great to say we did it together, and to keep fighting as a group!
But we're going to keep fighting regardless. Why stop when we're winning? #ComicsGate🐸
