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Also: comic book companies need real HR departments, and real actual corporate infrastructure.
Running your publisher as a hobby industry costs you talent, sales, and reputation, and may well land you with a harassment lawsuit so big you can see it from space.
Running your publisher as a hobby industry costs you talent, sales, and reputation, and may well land you with a harassment lawsuit so big you can see it from space.
You can’t be trying for giant Hollywood deals on one hand and not having proper reporting channels for employee harassment on the other. That’s, as my Alabama cousins say, talking out of both sides of your mouth.
Even DC and Marvel have a LOT of work to do in this space, and they should do it but quick before WB/Disney starts noticing all these creator scandals and goes through the editorial team like a scythe.
Because bet, WB and Disney doesn’t think the YA / young female market is a joke or a token.
They keep finding out the bros you put on those books are harassers (because hiring women is HARD), well...
They keep finding out the bros you put on those books are harassers (because hiring women is HARD), well...
An HR department and proper reporting channels at Dark Horse would have flagged up Scott Allie’s behaviour over a decade ago. Proper HR practices would have pushed out Eddie Berganza, a decade ago (or more!). This didn’t have to happen.
You can have your brand, or you can have your boys’ club. One’s eventually going to wreck the other.
Choose wisely.
Choose wisely.
