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Iron Spike@ironspike.bsky.social |
Pretty much every move I’ve ever made in comics since age 25 has been inspired by the 70-year-olds I saw in comic con Artist Alleys, cranking out sketches of characters they created but don’t own, to pay their doctor bills and nursing home fees.
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Captain Chaos
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I think about Jim Starlin and how he created Thanos, the antagonist of a movie franchise that has grossed so many billions of dollars and Marvel was just like "here's a ticket to the premier of Infinity War" smh
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Iron Spike
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And fun fact: technically, they weren’t allowed to do that. It’s copyright infringement. But the publishers turned a blind eye, because it did no real harm, and trying to stop it would be a PR disaster.
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Tade Thompson
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My entire professional writing career is designed with them in mind. I think of Bill Finger and Jack Kirby almost every day.
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CJ
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So you have also an arsenal room to overthrow American capitalism?
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@ftmshepard.bsky.social
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It's infuriating because they made things that are so cool people are eager and willing to keep throwing themselves at the big 2 and giving them their labor and skill, but they were so poorly looked after. I was going through my dad's stack of 80s and 90s comics yesterday. God.
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Patrick Stewart Sutcliffe
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The saddest part was that by the 70s Siegel’s partner Joe Shuster was nearly blind and couldn’t even do sketches.
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wishda
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It’s why they are so desperate for AI. They can obscure the contributions of the artists into being a “cleanup team.”
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Jess Soleigh
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When I started working, I was 18 and did caricatures in a theme park alongside dudes as old (or older) than my dad, many who had lost their long time jobs at the animation studios here when disney closed them, grinding here now to pay the bills. Still think about this a lot.
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Rufus Dayglo
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And the amount of Non Disclosure Agreements Marvel/Disney has served to old artists and families to get any financial restitution ( usually a pittance compared to what the Disney earns on the material ) is sickening.
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Rufus Dayglo
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I rememeber meeting a shakey Jerry Robinson at NYCC, stuck in the far corner of artists alley with a thermos & sandwich at a small table. I went over to the DC booth ( which had a megasize Joker film banner) and asked why they weren't looking after him. 'He doesn't work us' Fuck these companies.
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Randy Milholland
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Martin Nodell and Jerry Robinson. Their memories still break my heart.
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