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No Creator Credits On DC's 3D Covers… Or The 2D Ones Either (UPDATE)

Published Wed, 04 Sep 2013 13:30:19 -0500

Last updated Wed, 04 Sep 2013 16:40:55 -0500

UPDATE: Yanick Paquette has asked me to add the following statement:

I feel this thing has been largely blown out of proportion and my early overly harsh judgment didn't take into account facts that I was unaware of.

As I looked into my monthly comp copy to find out that all the Villains Months cover didn't sport the usual creative team credit, as an artist, I was angry, even though I personally didn't draw any of it. I went Online and vented my deception.

I didn't know back then the exceptional circonstances in which these particular books got put together. These spectacular 3d covers needed to be printed MONTHS ahead of the time for a timely shipping. They look great, but the trade off is to have them print way before assembling the creators team for the interior.

This is Obviously not a typical DC behavior toward their talents and I personally always been treated with the utmost respect. I should have suspected some production constrains had made it impossible to do usual cover credits and forced DC to bend the rules on this one.

Hopefully that should rectify things and stop all that Drama.

Still, I wouldn't mind sharing my credit covers with my colorist Nathan Fairbairn in the future . :)

Original Article:

Yanick Paquette is the artist who helped relaunch the Swamp Thing comic in the New 52. Right now he's not happy about the lack of credit on the 3D Villains Month covers from DC in September.

Not Crediting their Creators on the cover of these Villains Month's comics is UNACCEPTABLE, contemptuous, shame on you DCcomics! :(

— Yanick Paquette (@YanickPaquette) September 4, 2013

It is the Hard work of these Creators that gave all value, if any, to these book. DC removing cover credit is a scandalous move. — Yanick Paquette (@YanickPaquette) September 4, 2013

@TheBurnham haha. :) — Yanick Paquette (@YanickPaquette) September 4, 2013

@TheBurnham yeah but that's no excuse.Credits are not on the art. Cover design is always a last minute business.remember these arrow banners

— Yanick Paquette (@YanickPaquette) September 4, 2013

@YanickPaquette @TheBurnham Really? You guys are surprised?

— Joshua Hale Fialkov (@JoshFialkov) September 4, 2013

@KenGodbersonIII @JoshFialkov @YanickPaquette let us know how it turns out! :)

— Chris Burnham (@TheBurnham) September 4, 2013

Well, let's have a look. I was certainly wanting to give DC the benefit of the doubt. As we pointed out yesterday, there were considerable changes to creative credits between solicitation and publication of the titles and the covers had to be printed long in advance. Also I understand there were already problems getting the barcodes to work on the 3D covers, getting the credits to work may have caused similar issues. But surely that wouldn't be a problem with the 2D covers?

But for some reason, it has been. There are no creator credits on the 2D covers either, it seems.

Also, The Joker swapped hands for teeth and gun….

UPDATE: How far could this go?

@SimonBowland @YanickPaquette: Not true anymore. I put the name of the letterer on every cover of every project I do at @ImageComics .

— Ales Kot (@ales_kot) September 4, 2013

A couple more creditless 2D covers…