This #ComicsGate stuff is eating up my timeline this morning, so I'm finally moved to go public with my observations. TLDR: You are all wrong and all annoying. Anyway...
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First, it seems to me that most of the ComicsGaters (please stop calling things "-gate") are not mad about politics in their comics. They are mad about politics WITH WHICH THEY DISAGREE in their comics. This is perfectly fine, but be upfront about it.
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A few raise a more nuanced point, with which I happen to agree: A lot of political messaging in comics is hamfisted, didactic, and is going to age about as well as Dennis O'Neil on his soapbox in the 1970s. For example:pic.twitter.com/wNWFA6CRpd
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So, if you want to do a Kickstarter for your own hamfisted, pro-Trump superhero comic, and if people want to give you money, fine, but don't pretend you're doing anything but political agitprop that, in most cases, is worse than the clunky stuff you're decrying in Marvel/DC.
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Are there fewer conservatives in comics than there are progressives/democratic socialists/whatever? Yes. Welcome to the arts. The arts have always been left-leaning while banking has always been right-leaning. This is a self-selecting process, which conservatives never deny, for
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Replying to @FranklinH3000
Broadly true but there have always been conservatives and right-wingers in comics: Carl Barks, Steve Ditko, Alex Toth, Frank Miller, Peter Bagge, Chester Brown. The Comicsgate people are just too historically ill-informed to know this history.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
True, but then you also probably named all of them, and we're both including libertarians to get that many. The only other names that leap to mind are Chuck Dixon and Mike Baron. (And Miller's politics are not now where they started out.)
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I was just naming off the top of my head but there are more -- C.C. Beck, Roy Thomas, Joe Simon (a Rockefeller Republican!). Thing is for most it wasn't necessarily relevant for their art (and when it was relevant, as with Ditko's Randian stuff, it was bad).
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