40. "Yeah...this happens all the time in comics and publishing..." In response to In response to 39 Fri Mar-20-15 11:21 AM by KwesiAkoKennedy
...you just never hear about it. Does material get produced that eventually gets removed or redone by the artist themselves because of offensiveness. YUP. All the time. Kurt Busiek was running virtual seminar through twitter on this when outrage over the outrage reached peak neckbeard...
"I can’t argue what should and shouldn’t be an issue for you. Merely that comics publishers have been reacting to reader reactions for a long time now, and the changes social media brings to it change the speed more than the effect." https://twitter.com/KurtBusiek/status/577681018620014593
The artist now knows the audience for the comic since he didn't before he was hired to do it. At least the one the current creative team wants and have been getting more sales on a regular basis because of it. And they agreed that it wasn't the right tone for the direction of the book.
"I think those who know the “Killing Joke” got the point. But again, young people aged 14 to 17 years does not have the obligation to know, and I think both myself and the publisher, even unintentionally, were wrong in thinking that the image would be appropriate."
" I see many people commenting on freedom of expression and that I gave in to pressure. I have always defended minorities. I think is the right and moral thing to do. I do not think a comic that aims to raise women´s self-esteem should have an image that may suggest otherwise. In another comic, maybe that image made sense. Not for the current Batgirl comic. Freedom of expression also means not saying what you do not want to say, and it was exactly the right that I exercised here."
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