Comics people who turned out to be pretty fucking bonkers right wing & all that!

[DaveCinzano]

apparently he has one called Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics which seemingly neither of us have read but you might be interested in?

Cheers, will look that one up

 

[Lurdan]

Cheers, will look that one up

OOP I think. Had a rather rough pdf so I've cleaned it up a bit. Should do as an evaluation copy.
(Don't know how long catbox links last so if you're interested I'd grab it). I'm not sure it addresses bonkers right wingness, but I only read some of the essays in it.

Liked his A Haunt of Fears a lot. (Amongst other things it solved the mystery of why the US horror comics and horror film mags I was buying suddenly vanished in London at the end of 1970. That followed the first, and as far as I know only, prosecution under the 1955 Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act. Still on the statute book, of course, just in case).

 

[DaveCinzano]

OOP I think. Had a rather rough pdf so I've cleaned it up a bit. Should do as an evaluation copy.
(Don't know how long catbox links last so if you're interested I'd grab it). I'm not sure it addresses bonkers right wingness, but I only read some of the essays in it.

Liked his A Haunt of Fears a lot. (Amongst other things it solved the mystery of why the US horror comics and horror film mags I was buying suddenly vanished in London at the end of 1970. That followed the first, and as far as I know only, prosecution under the 1955 Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act. Still on the statute book, of course, just in case).

Cheers

Had a quick shufty, sadly the prosecution of Savoy for Lord Horror came too late to be covered, but love the appendix! More authors should get their readers to do the work that becomes the next book

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not totally appropriate to this thread, but close enough, a friend just relayed this little tale about Grant Morrison.

Back in the 90s when Grant Morrison got really into chaos magick he did a thing in the Invisibles letter column about how if you create a sigil for something you want to happen and then masturbate while staring at it, you can make it happen. So he put one in the comic for it to go up in the charts and asked all the readers to dutifully wank over it.

#witchcraftywank

 

[hitmouse]

#witchcraftywank

proper fucking cackled (perhaps appropriately?) at that one.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That's the one, a writer about comics rather than a comics writer? And similarly a writer about whether comics are dodgy/bonkers right wing or not rather than a bonkers right wing writer in his own right, from what I know of him. I remember A Haunt of Fears as being really interesting, haven't read the one about Antz, looking him up apparently he has one called Comics: Ideology, Power and the Critics which seemingly neither of us have read but you might be interested in? And he also has one about Judge Dredd, although that looks like it might be more about the film? Also heh heh you said seminal.

Seems he's had his Great News For All Readers

 

[Orang Utan]

Graham Linehan has gone batshit - a deluded crusader against dangerous trans folk who want to erase lesbians or something

 

[Steel Icarus]

Graham Linehan has gone batshit - a deluded crusader against dangerous trans folk who want to erase lesbians or something

It's not sudden, though, he's been sliding into manic obsession for many years now

 

[DaveCinzano]

Graham Linehan has gone batshit - a deluded crusader against dangerous trans folk who want to erase lesbians or something

Wrong thread

 

[Orang Utan]

Wrong thread

Not strictly a comic but he wrote comedy

 

[Orang Utan]

It's not sudden, though, he's been sliding into manic obsession for many years now

Aye, he’s just got worse and worse and lost everything cos of it.

 

[redsquirrel]

Not related to the OP but anyone read the new Luther Arkwright story?

 

[DaveCinzano]

Not strictly a comic but he wrote comedy

This is the thread about comic-creating people, not the one about loon comedians and comedy types.

 

[8ball]

Graham Linehan has gone batshit - a deluded crusader against dangerous trans folk who want to erase lesbians or something

WTF??!! When did this happen?

 

[Karl Masks]

WTF??!! When did this happen?

Years ago.

He once created a weird dating site profile dressed as a woman to prove some point about gender. He's an utter crank

Graham Linehan joined a queer women’s dating app to share trans people’s profiles. It backfired, badly

A dating app for women and queer people has been forced to clarify that trans women are welcome after Graham Linehan set up a fake account.

www.pinknews.co.uk

 

[8ball]

Years ago.

Sorry, that was sarcasm on my part, but thanks for being helpful.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I've been off Twitter 7 or 8 years now and Glinner even then was swearing at people who argued (even politely) with him and his middle class liberal circle's Hot Takes. In fact he called me a "shit" and blocked me on the same day he called about thirty people the same individually and blocked them, too.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Glinner has never created a comicbook as far as I'm aware so not sure why he's being talked about here?

 

[Orang Utan]

Glinner has never created a comicbook as far as I'm aware so not sure why he's being talked about here?

Cos the thread said comic and I thought it referred to people who are funny rather than cartoon strips

 

[8ball]

Cos the thread said comic and I thought it referred to people who are funny rather than cartoon strips

You’re not the first to get that confused, and unless the thread title is clarfied a little, I doubt you’ll be the last.

 

[DaveCinzano]

The thread title and OP are clear, and a link to a more appropriate thread was politely proffered.

If you inadvertently go into a baker's and demand sausages, and the baker says 'sorry, no sausages here, it's a bakery', and suggests you pop next door to the butcher's, you don't get all arsey with them and insist they change their shop's name because 'baker' shares too many letters with 'butcher'. Or maybe you do

 

[8ball]

The thread title and OP are clear, and a link to a more appropriate thread was politely proffered.

If you inadvertently go into a baker's and demand sausages, and the baker says 'sorry, no sausages here, it's a bakery', and suggests you pop next door to the butcher's, you don't get all arsey with them and insist they change their shop's name because 'baker' shares too many letters with 'butcher'. Or maybe you do

Well, you try and buy your sausage rolls at the butcher if you want to, but you’re still going to get people coming in saying stuff like “Les Dennis”.

 

[Orang Utan]

I wasn’t getting arsey just pointing out my neglectful error

 

[8ball]

I wasn’t getting arsey just pointing out my neglectful error

I think that was directed at me.

 

[Lurdan]

Anti-Woke Superhero Movie ‘Rebel’s Run’ Blown Up in $1 Million Con - Daily Beast (Archived)

An attempt to make a right-wing superhero movie has ended in disaster, with $1 million missing in China and a participant facing a federal indictment.
“I wouldn’t count on us getting the money back,” Theodore Beale, a far-right blogger known as “Vox Day,” admitted to his fans and investors in a video last week.
This isn’t how Beale’s followers thought their investments would go in 2019, when they started contributing to fund a film based on a Confederacy-themed superhero comic book character created by Beale. A trailer promoting the proposed movie, Rebel’s Run, featured the character Rebel fighting a global police force hunting down freethinking conservatives.

Investment Scam Snares Confederacy-Themed Superhero Movie ‘Rebel’s Run’ - IMDb

A trailer promoting the planned film” features a female character, Rebel, wearing a Confederate-flag inspired bustier while fighting a “global crackdown on hate,” and a “different kind of war.” It includes clips of an interview with writer Chuck Dixon, who worked on the “Batman” series and created “Bane,” and with producer Daniel McNicol, who has a handful of writing and production credits to his name.

Right-wing director Scooter Downey, who helmed a Tucker Carlson-backed “documentary” on the Jan. 6, 2021 riot in the U.S. Capitol, was to direct.

Grifter Cons Blogger's Now-Canned 'Anti-Woke' Superhero Film - Gizmodo (Archived)

The other big name attached to the film was Chuck Dixon, a well-known comics writer who has written for Marvel’s Punisher series as well as DC’s Batman through the 1990s and early 2000s. Since 2010 he has dived headlong into the alt-right conspiracist sphere and started writing for Beale’s Arkhaven brand including the Alt-Hero series. That comic even includes a “Q” storyline, with the tagline “Where we go one,” which is a common phrase for the QAnon conspiracy that believes satanic Democrats are involved in a ring of cannabalistic pedophiles.

 

[jannerboyuk]

Okay, so Frank Miller was an easy spot, thanks to the Randist direction he wrenched Martha Washington into almost immediately, and then the post-9/11 pro-torture hissy fits.

But mid-80s 2nd Wave 2000AD art heroes Brendan McCarthy and brother Jim McCarthy? Aww come on! Below the belt, these guys were wacky, out-there, on the vanguard of weirdness! But indeed they are foam-flecked ruddy-cheeked green inkers of the SJW THIS/SNOWFLAKE THAT variety. And Brendan seems a big fan of Trump, and Jim of Morrissey.

Any others? (And I know C*m*csG*t* has opened the door to many a whiny Rodgers-alike fan; but it's the creators with name recognition I'm interested in...)

Just checked out Brendan McCarthy's twitter page as he posted about his eyesight going and not being able to work anymore, which is very sad. Amongst the nuttiness though it was even sadder to see him talking about not taking his statins any more because he's 'done his research' etc. The damage conspiraloons do!

 

[DotCommunist]

Anti-Woke Superhero Movie ‘Rebel’s Run’ Blown Up in $1 Million Con - Daily Beast (Archived)



Investment Scam Snares Confederacy-Themed Superhero Movie ‘Rebel’s Run’ - IMDb



Grifter Cons Blogger's Now-Canned 'Anti-Woke' Superhero Film - Gizmodo (Archived)

ah theadore beale, last time I heard of that stain he and others were attempting shenanigans on the Hugo Award (sf novels/written awards) voting. I see he's still At It.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Just checked out Brendan McCarthy's twitter page as he posted about his eyesight going and not being able to work anymore, which is very sad. Amongst the nuttiness though it was even sadder to see him talking about not taking his statins any more because he's 'done his research' etc. The damage conspiraloons do!

Oh no. I saw about his eyes today, but didn't know about the other stuff, which is actually sadder.