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Exactly 😏
I'm going to do a NIRVANA THE BAND THE SHOW THE MOVIE THE COMICS FESTIVAL
TCAF waitlisting my friends is bad for comics
Let me explain to you why Up is excellent long after the “Married Life” sequence is over, in podcast form!
🎵 ONE FINE DAY
THEY ANSWERED ME 🎶
Why does the hold music for my doctor's office sound like "Love Came For Me" from SPLASH (1984)
@erictcarrasco.bsky.social!
It's a quiet storyline in The World right now, compared to everything else, but I'm truly disgusted and disheartened by how many of my literary heroes have been silent about Neil Gaiman's horrific transgressions, or have even subscribed to that godawful anonymous "Neil Gaiman is Innocent" Substack
BIRDS/OWL.GIF
ahahhaaaa yes
Hal is just making all of this up and messing with John
(is that going to be the twist???)
I feel like Kevin Garnett in UNCUT GEMS now. Don't mention squirrels if you won't show me squirrels!
carousel, asbury park, new jersey, 1978
carousel, asbury park, new jersey, 1978
the cast of Star Trek Voyager in street clothes awkwardly posing with late-90s computer hardware and consumer electronics
this is what it feels like to post on bluesky
Werner Herzog with the caption “I would like to see the squirrel”
This came to me in a dream. I hope Ch’p gets more than a mention!
Here's young Peter Falk in his first appearance as Columbo
Quick question does anyone know how to restore virtue to a decaying society
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red ghost - urchin-----"macky pink ghost - romp-------"micky" blue ghost - stylist----"mucky" orange ghost - crybaby----"mocky"
pac-man, alternate ghost names, arcade (1980) 'the board has a dip switch called "alternate ghost names". in the japanese version, this would change the ghosts' character names and nicknames to a different set..' tcrf.net/Pac-Man_(Arc...
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
(The screencaps are from this 2020 Daily Beast story I wrote about the absolutely endemic sexual harrassment in the comics industry, back when mainstream outlets briefly cared about that sort of thing)
At a 2015 party during San Diego Comic Con, a visibly intoxicated Allie sexually assaulted novelist and comics writer Joe Harris, grabbing his crotch and biting him on the ear. Writing about the incident in Graphic Policy, Janelle Assellin—a journalist and former editor at DC Comics who had helped spearhead a multi-staffer HR complaint against Berganza in 2010—gathered accounts from multiple sources at the company noting that he’d behaved that way for years, garnering the nickname “Bitey the Clown”; staffers attempting to go through internal channels invariably received cheerful assurances that the problem was being dealt with. (Dark Horse themselves famously ran a 2006 interview with him—since apparently deleted but archived here—that included the joke “Watch out, he bites.”) Allie issued an apology and remained part of the official masthead until 2017, when he became a freelance editor. Nonetheless, he maintained close ties at Dark Horse, continuing to edit and write for Mignola’s Hellboy. While his behavior remained a topic of open discussion on the comics internet for years, Allie likewise continued to be a fixture at conventions and—sources speaking on background to The Daily Beast confirm—a mover and shaker in comics social circles. His behavior was often explained in those circles as substance abuse: since he was now sober, the standard line went, the issue had gone away.
It had not. On June 24, former Dark Horse editor Shawna Gore, now senior editor at Oni Press, publicly accused Allie of sexual assault. Over the course of 14 years, Gore wrote in a horrific account, Allie engaged in a pattern of “chronic, escalating, unchecked abuse that was not related to his alcohol use.” On one occasion in 1999, in the backseat of a minivan filled with their colleagues, Allie put his hands in Gore’s underwear. “For the next 10-15 minutes I had to quietly, physically wrestle against Scott to prevent him from forcibly penetrating me with his fingers,” Gore wrote. She alleges he repeatedly told her to relax as he groped her.
![In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.”
After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:efx3llkdwipqoz4ie37tego6/bafkreigxnxkogc44kiumhvur7kdwzh5yhuuq5ydzkd5eiflizie45srk3u)
In both Allie and Berganza’s cases, higher-ups at both Dark Horse and DC Comics had ample evidence of severe misconduct, and did as little as possible to deal with it. “We did not, and cannot, perform a public flogging, as some might wish,” Dark Horse founder Mike Richardson proclaimed in a response to Asselin’s 2015 piece. “I am extremely sensitive on this subject, being the father of three daughters and having experienced first hand the effects of sexual harassment and gender discrimination…[Asselin’s] assumption that my longevity somehow ‘embeds’ within me an attitude of inappropriate permissiveness is not only wrong, it is insulting.” After Gore’s statement, however, Richardson struck a more conciliatory (though still martyred) tone. “I tend to think I can fix the behavior of people,” he wrote. “I thought this with Scott, that I could in some way fix him and change his behavior. A horrible mistake on my part that caused harm that can never be undone.” The set of reforms he proposed going forward—which included adopting an official No Tolerance policy for harassment and promises that there would be no retaliation for reporting abuse—were met with blanket scorn. As Graphic Policy incredulously noted, several of them may already have been legal requirements.
Dark Horse Comics founder Mark Richardson has been fired from the company after 40 years. The news has occasioned a lot of tributes. Feels important not to forget, however, that for years he enabled — if not actively protected — Scott Allie, a really hideous sexual harrasser.
If misogyny disqualified men from your respect, you could all spend a lot less time being like "Oh my god, I'm so shocked to discover that he's hateful and stupid," later.
Two things can be true about Mike Richardson:
-He was responsible for some major genre hits
AND
-He did not protect staff if they were not a white man and is responsible for a generation of queer and female editors leaving comics rather than continue in a toxic environment
If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.
The Spectre by Jerry Siegel and Bernard Baily, More Fun Comics #64
Re: enabling workplace abuse, read to the end for Mike’s weird fucking response that names the reporter multiple times as if he’s addressing her, specifically:
graphicpolicy.com/2015/10/01/e...
