I have just finished having a conversation with someone who used to work in comics up until 2015. Nothing unusual there but the turn the conversation took was a little unexpected. He mentioned how all the news on the scandals involving certain UK creators had suddenly vanished and thought that was weird.
He also mentioned a certain former UK comic editor/writer who thought he was a bit of a ladies man. "Did you hear how he chatted up and propositioned *********** wife at the comic event?" I told him that the artist -sadly gone now- had told me the story himself. He then asked if I knew about another artist whose wife was propositioned by the same person? I did, vaguely, but it seems that was acceptable back in the late 1990s/early 2000s.
It turned out that the person I was chatting to was one of those who reported two comic creators trying to get into a young woman's hotel room in Bristol during a comic event (both were typically drunk). I told him that was well known but covered up by other creators -what I did not know was that the young woman was not even 18 years old.
The online comics media tends to brush over these things or keep quiet about them but I am hoping that one day soon people are going to come forward and report what they know or things that happened. Names that could be mentioned would make the Neil Gaiman scandal look like a picnic in Brighton.
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