Hi. i was directed at this tumblr for harsh critizism of DC's new diversity movement. Could you provide that? Maybe including some mac&cheese analogies? Many thanks.

I find it interesting: maybeee, hopefully positive, but with some disappointing elements.

I see it as publishers catching onto that a huge amount of comic readers are women and people of color who want to see real representation in the books they read or even white dudes who are side eyeing a publisher for it’s lack of diversity in hiring.

So you get books like Gotham Academy and Batgirl that seem to me as DC book that are being sold as female friendly. Whole foods comics. Because they are books that are being sold with a intended political agenda.  They both have like 3 creators on them and one is a woman. (Becky co-writing on Gotham and Babs Tarr drawing BatG.)

I think these are like the corporate response to what creators like Kelly Sue DeConnick have in their blood. I suspect their hearts are in the right place in the creative level but at least that is my theory for why these books seem to be getting green lit

I think them bringing in Gene Yang, is a smart move. He makes really good comics, and I’m glad to see Ming Doyle co-writing as well as drawing. I really like her art.-plus these days being just an artist in that end of comics seems to be not enough.

So my disappointment in all this is that at my core I’m intensely anti corporate and especially anti corporate control and ownership of the creators works and characters,  This is still DC, still the same people who brought you Before Watchmen and have been shitting on creators rights for decades. The same people who will change scripts and art without the creators permission & run it with Combos ads every other page.— yup, still DC. 

I feel like all these creators being brought in could be doing books they own and control at Image or First Second

or where ever.

I would love to see more creators just write off ever working in that end of comics ~ but also, I don’t expect my agenda to be universal. I know talking to Kelly Sue,( I think we might’ve talked about it on this inkstuds) I’ve gotten the idea that the advantage in working for those companies was the distribution it allowed for her ideas. So she could do smart female characters that young readers could actually find as opposed to my ideal world of digging forever to find comics gold.

So hopefully It’s a good thing and DC can be less shitty at least on diversity in hiring level. I see a lot of excitement about it and I’m like “ugh. a Prez relaunch..?” but I gotta let people like what they like. I’ll be over here being a sour indy dude.