§ Webcomic of the day: “Your lack Friend” by Ben Passmore. Just read it. It’s an excerpt of a longer work that will be sold at MICE in Boston, Ripexpo in Providence and NOCAZ Fest in New Orleans, and available online from .Radiator Comics. § This kept coming into my inbox: a Spidey Zine […]
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Twitter has had a harassment problem for a long time. Like, a loooooooong time. Something about the impersonal format gives free reign to any and all disgusting behavior. I myself—along with several other women in comics—was the target of a troll who made all kinds of creepy threats (including rape) for years. It took many […]
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About a month ago, Steve asked me who my favourite comic creators were, and horrible as I am at answering on the spot questions, I did manage to provide him with one name: Julia Gfrorer. If you follow mainstream comics, your most beloved authors put out work regularly, but at indie central, you get a mini-comic or a book a year, with perhaps a few contributions to anthologies. Despite this, Gfrorer’s work is consistently excellent, featuring themes of myth, folk lore, mysticism and spirituality, coupled with her fine-lined, evocative art.
She also manages the seemingly possible: discussing sex in a way that’s interesting, sexy, varying degrees of disturbing, and all disgusting fluids at the same time: her work is never patronising or affected. Her excellent first longer length comic, Black is the Colour, is due to be published by Fantagraphics in autumn, and you can currently read it in full over at the Study Group Comics site, and hopefully that should be enough to convince you to pick up a print copy when it’s out!
Here’s a sneak peek from an upcoming interview with The Beat, where Gfrorer talks about how she ‘got into comics’:
‘When I moved to Portland in 2007, I had just made a mini called “How Life Became Unbearable,” about Saint Francis of Assisi. I took it to Pony Club Gallery to consign it, and that was how I met Dylan Williams, who was a member then. Around the same time, I was in a show at Launch Pad Gallery, and I was doodling a little comic at the opening, and Sean Christensen zeroed in on me like I had flashed the comix beacon. So those guys were my first friends in my new city, and they introduced me to their friends and encouraged me to be part of their projects, so before I knew it comics were my whole world.’
You can find her site here and buy her work here
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Continuing our look at thrills to come in 2013, Fantagraphics announced new books by two exciting indie creators, Julia Gfrörer and Ben Catmull, with some advance looks. The cover art isn't final, as attractive as it may be. Both will be out in September.
“These changes are long overdue, and while Gfrorer’s tweet was nothing to be proud of, she was clearly on the receiving end of the kind of abuse that the new guidelines are meant to stop. So it’s kind of like the kid who gets bullied all the time, finally fits back and is the one collared for starting the fight.”
So, Twitter should put an end to abusive and threatening tweets but not when they person is returning abuse? It’s OK then? I understand there can be a lot going on around each tweet but the basic story is she sent a tweet threatening to rape someone, joke or no joke, and under the new guidelines she was suspended for making that tweet. Your reaction/takeaway of “But she didn’t started it – they should just ban the one who first makes abusive remarks” is just ludicrous.
Now, I don’t say this should be a permanent suspension, I’m not saying that, but I look at this situation and I 100% agree with Twitter that she was in the wrong.
Agree with Twitter that I should have been suspended for the comment, but you don’t agree with Twitter that I should be suspended for the comment? Okay, thanks for weighing in.
TCW, you agree with Twitter that I should have been suspended for the comment, but you don’t agree with Twitter that I should be suspended for the comment? Okay, thanks for weighing in.
“So, Twitter should put an end to abusive and threatening tweets but not when they person is returning abuse? It’s OK then?”
Yes, TCW, it IS okay then. An intelligent person who’s interested in actually working toward the just treatment of all people, instead of a dullard scoring points against strangers from oppressed groups behind an internet pseudonym, is capable of making that distinction.
This article fails to demonstrate that anyone but the cartoonist, who tweeted a threat of rape herself, deserved to be blocked.
I don’t doubt the situation but this article fails to actually make the point. If I’m judging only from what I read in this blog here, the right person was banned.
If the other guys made threats like this and didn’t just “inserted himself into that conversation to suggest that violent feminist rhetoric like ours is the real cause of rape” then those examples should have been included – but as it is presented here, this guy was just annoying and was threatened with rape for his troubles.
I don’t think that’s cool.
“His troubles” is a nice way to gloss over a torrent of MRA-speak mansplaining invective thrown at women constantly, and the mock offense when someone lashes out is basically just “WHEN’S WHITE HISTORY MONTH?” dressed up in a fedora.
What’s not cool is tone policing the article to take the focus away from harassment of women online, which is pretty much what happens any time an article like this comes out.
fuck this, she couldnt handle a crap comment in a decent, mature way. Instead she threatened violent bodily harm to another person. she threatened to RAPE someone. That make HER the scumbag, whatever was said before is irrelevant. She deserves to be banned like anyone else who would do the same.
she should have some respect for victims of rape and not throw it around like its nothing. She could have taken higher ground, but instead she revealed what a low piece of shit she is.
There’s pretty much nothing that any authority – from twitter people, to small claims courts, to Obama, to the Illuminati – can do to make the words “I’m going to rape you” mean anything other than what they mean. At the very best it was a rape JOKE, which is equally reprehensible, possibly even more so given her gender and her subscription to feminism. So all appeals claiming Julia was in the right are pointless.
I’m getting weird Autistic vibes from this too. Maybe an analogy will help.
J.S. Bach composed his fugal music with many clever and noble things in mind, however none of them can do much to change the fact that it sounds like a borderline-amusical hodgepodge that makes Vaporwave sound human. Incidentally, this is probably the reason Bach was ignored during his lifetime. Regardless of intent or context, a cacophonous mass of notes is a cacophonous mass of notes – a rape threat is a rape threat. Nothing more to it.
I don’t know if you guys realize, but this is the worse possible approach if you want her account restored. Yes, it is the best approach if you want to do it “feministically” or make a case for the broader spectrum of online abuse or whatever. But not if you want to get your account back. It’s more than a little ironic, no? Continue spamming twitter with the same attitude, turning yourself from a footnote into a full-blown undesirable person and basically making sure you stay banned for good BUT contributing to the fight against…I don’t know, neckbeards and dudebros? OR eating some humble pie, apologizing to twitter, and possibly getting unbanned.
If there IS a possibility of getting her account restored, it would have to start with a full admission of guilt from Julia with no mention of context, intent, or what the other party said.
By the way, Sean, I think you’re dangerously close to being banned for spam.
Same as it ever was. Bullies get a free pass to make people’s lies hell, but if a target stands up to them, the system smacks them down, hard. Who knew adult life was exactly like junior high?
I can understand why Julia snapped back, given what women in comics have had to put up with for so long. In case you missed it, here’s a Comics Alliance article that spells it out. Hard to believe this crap is still going on. I blame the superhero fanboy culture that still treats women as some alien species.
And, “pete,” your childish, profane comment is utterly repulsive. How old are you, 13? That’s how you’re acting.
http://comicsalliance.com/comics-industry-harassment/?trackback=fbshare_flat_4