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Pretty funny considering that people were comparing me to Hitler because I refused to kick Doug off the team." While TenNapel successfully promoted Bigfoot Bill using the #Comicsgate hashtag and allied himself with members of the activist group which fights against progressive voices in comic books, often with organised campaigns of hatred and division, he recently[...]

Comicsgate, the comics activist group that's recently promoted a number of crowdfunded comic books, had an early history in making transphobic comments against creators like Mags Visaggio, Tamra Bonvillain, Lilah Sturges and Michelle Perez The motivation seemed to come from the idea that some people weren't getting jobs in comics while these people were, and[...]

Now the Court, rather than Comicsgate Internet supporters, will decide the fate of Meyers' lawsuit." As before, Bleeding Cool makes the paperwork available below. As well as the statement highlighted by Waid above, other narrative in the pages about include that the then-Antarctic Press EIC Jochen Weltjens, who reportedly objected to publisher Joeming Dunn decision to publish[...]

So when he posts on Facebook that he has… 'just turned down a project written by one of my use to be favorite writers, he's part of that comicsgate/alt right crapola I would have made a lot of money oh well' …it may hit a little harder than for other creators who have made similar decisions of[...]

🙏 — Peter Simeti 💬 (@petersimeti) February 13, 2019 The publisher of a number of titles including ICYMI, Exilium, Feast or Famine, and several others, Peter Simeti and Alterna Comics made a name for themselves in recent years in part based on the strategy of comics printed on newsprint at a lower cost.  The publisher also caused[...]

They put #comicsgate on the front page. The article by Leonard Pitts Jr, with the headline 'alt-right fan boys go after women in comic world' can be read in full here, with an online headline prefix of 'Comicsgate'.   It's a runaround of stories and details that regular Bleeding Cool readers may be familiar with, but the front page[...]

With an affinity for Marvel Comics from the nineties, some folk have claimed him for the #Comicsgate, the activist group that wants comics to go back a couple of decades to when they were kids. Buddy Harvey got me a signed Donny cates comics ghost rider #1 It's awesome going go good on the wall Got[...]

A lot has happened since Bleeding Cool first broke the news that Comicsgater Richard Meyer was suing comic book writer, editor and publisher Mark Waid, claiming defamation and tortious interference over Antarctic Press no longer publishing Meyer's Jawbreakers graphic novel. Waid launched a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his legal fight, with a fee set[...]

We reported on Meyer's launching the lawsuit, which claims causes of action including defamation and tortious interference in his contract with Antarctic Press over the publication of his crowdfunded comic Jawbreakers, earlier in the year. Waid states in his explanation on his GoFundMe campaign: In September of this year, I was sued by one of the perceived leaders of[...]

Following the bestselling debut of X-Men Black, Marvel's weekly October one-shot event, last week with Chris Claremont's return on X-Men Black: Magneto,

This is what he had to say, "It has come to my attention from various sources that people are associating me with Comicgate, an alt-right hate group in the comic book field. As a proud liberal Democrat, I'm against everything Comicsgate stands for I'm Pro-Equal Rights Pro-Diversity Pro-Comics I always believed that everyone is welcomed at the[...]

This image was posted on Twitter over the weekend, wondering which comic book professionals would come out against ComicsGate after Marvel CCO Joe Quesada's lengthy conversations over the past week. My Vegas insider friend sent me this… pic.twitter.com/8YNR65RW8S — just a girl (@Mrstroybiggons) September 15, 2018 It was approved by Chief ComicsGater Ethan Van Sciver… I've placed my bets! https://t.co/OBMy35NA3x —[...]

Last week there was a bit of a Comicsgate howl of rage against a decision by Marvel to hire academic, writer and visual artist Eve L Ewing to write IronHeart, the new ongoing series starring Riri Williams, with the thrust of the message being that no one gets hired to write an ongoing comics series at Marvel[...]

A few days ago, Vox Day, writer, editor, video game designer, blogger and alt-right activist stated he was going to launch a comic book imprint called Comicsgate. Comic creator Ethan Van Sciver who has become rather self-associated with the virtue-signalling hashtag of hate, then stated that Day had no right to the name, and that as Ethan ran a YouTube[...]

Yesterday we heard from Dave Sim, and today legendary comic book creator Kyle Baker of Damage Control, The Cowboy Wally Show, and Why I Hate Saturn lends his artistic abilities to the ongoing Comicsgate debate. So excited to be part of the new #comicsgate line of books pic.twitter.com/o4Z1gxfHtw — Quality Jollity (@KyleJBaker) September 4, 2018 Although if anyone[...]

He is currently engaged in a long and byzantine interview with Bleeding Cool that needs some serious editing to make a lick of sense. When some folk on the comicsgate side of things declared that the late Darwyn Cooke would have been a Comcisgater, his widow, Marsha Cooke, decided to let them have both barrels[...]

I could use a hug or two;) https://t.co/bS5v0GWpEA — 🌈🌤 M I T C H 🦅🌩 (@mbreitweiser) November 12, 2016 Elizabeth is a prominent comics industry colourist who, as well as Kill Or Be Killed, has also recently been colouring Lee Weeks' work on DC's Batman ongoing series. Recently, alongside their upcoming appearance at the Lakes, it was[...]

Okay maybe not a close-up. Whether or not it is modelled on Robbi's posterior, I couldn't tell you. Yes, they called it ComicsGate to imply scandal We adopted it and it now means "people who are opposed to the bullying and gay porno harassment of mainstream comics and seek to fix this business of selling comics to[...]

Both repeating and elaborating thoughts in the wake of 'comicsgate' discussion regarding Marsha Cooke and Darwyn Cooke. I believe comics are for everyone. There is no excuse for harassment. There is no place for homophobia, transphobia, racism or misogyny in comics criticism. — Ben Morse (@BenJMorse) August 27, 2018 I've been out of town but I believe my stance on[...]

A prominent a presence at comic conventions, she is forthright in her opinions — and I know from personal experience that it's not the greatest position to be on the wrong side of her. Recently someone on Twitter claimed that Darwyn would have supported the "ComicsGate" crowd You know, those who want the content of comic books to[...]

Twitter is seemingly turning a blind eye to continued and targeted harassment of creators, critics, and fans in the comics community.

Ever since #gamergate and #notyourshield Twitter hashtags ripped the gaming industry in twain, there have been enquiries as to whether the comic book