Tom King on Jae Lee/Comicsgate tweet - "We’re all good. Best possible outcome"
"Didn’t know Comicsgate existed" King explains
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Oh damn I didn't know Jae Lee was a Comicsgate guy. Fuck that whole group, especially Ethan Van Sciver.
Artist (Jae Lee) unaware of Comicsgate and does not support the hate movement.
That's a really weird error to make. I wonder where he heard that.
What the heck. The dude posted something like, a serious allegation, and then just walks it back like without apology.
Honestly, I can buy it. Like if you're never on the internet and are mostly just keeping your head down, I think you could totally miss something like Comicsgate.
He made the covers but had no idea about Comicsgate in general. Honestly, if you weren't online and you were approached by the former artist of DC's Green Lantern, I could see how you could be suckered into it.
Were the covers themselves dodgy? Like I can see a 50 y.o. who is not on twitter getting a commission and just doing work.
The only thing I can think of is that Comicsgate used his art without him knowing what it was being used for. Hopefully we get more clarification here.
He did make a cover for a comic by a guy who was hash tagging it as #comicsgate but it seems the artist Lee was not familiar with any of that aspect of the project
Twitter promotes a very fast and loose style. Fact checking, if done at all, is done after that fact.
I mean, yeah, but I think it implies that Jae Lee is involved in the Comicsgate movement.
The very obvious implication of the tweet was that Jae Lee was an active participant of Comicsgate as opposed drawing a cover for one member without double checking.
King needed to have thought this through and he didn't.
To be fair, when Ethan Van Nazi is yelling on Twitter "JAE LEE IS COMICSGATE! LOOK AT THIS COVER HE DREW FOR US, COMICSGATE!" it's understandable how a mistake could be made.
Wow. I read and collect comics but I don't follow the industry and I only read stories when they're collected in trades. I had no idea about Comicsgate and I feel ashamed for it. What a fucking ridiculous thing.
Reading that thread what I got is that Ethan Van Sciver is a piece of shit. I'm glad I don't own anything from him.
Reading that thread what I got is that Ethan Van Sciver is a piece of shit. I'm glad I don't own anything from him.
It would be disappointed if Jae Lee was involved in comicsgate. Seems like an oversight on behalf of Tom King, but honestly on the side of Jae Lee as well. If comicsgate people can commission popular comics artists (or writers for that matter) to do work for them and lend credibility to their movement with no awareness of the movement in the industry, that is a little worrisome.
Tom should probably delete that tweet, although
Oooof, that is fucked up.
Oooof, that is fucked up.
What in the world? When I read that original post I was floored that Jae Lee would be part of Comicsgate. How could he make this big of a blunder??
No problem Tom. Definitely no need to apologise or delete that original tweet, you just carry on buddy.