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Yesterday Zainab Akhtar announced she was shutting down her Eisner-nominated website Comics & Cola. The reason was not the usual ones — no money in it, moving on, life changes. It was something much more troubling and dangerous.
Yesterday Zainab Akhtar announced she was shutting down her Eisner-nominated website Comics & Cola. The reason was not the usual ones — no money in it, moving on, life changes. It was something much more troubling and dangerous.
Sad to hear. I wish her the best.
And to the bigots and the bullies, I hope that someday they learn empathy and become better people.
Zainab Akhtar is a wonderful writer and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed following Comics & Cola these past years. Too bad she burned out.
I’m wondering what happened though? I feel like us fans of her site deserve more of an explanation so we can all, the whole comics community that loved her, have some real closure.
Who are these bigots who consistently attacked her? Are there specific instances here? Was it just a lot of little attacks over a long period of time?
I think we can start a productive conversation(maybe, at least theoretically) if we have a clearer picture of what was going on which led to this disturbing end.
One of the best writers-about-comics I have ever read, and I can only hope there is a bidding war over her picks her up.
I’ve never heard of this site, and this is the first time I’ve seen this site mentioned here, so I’m assuming the “relevance” is out of respect, mostly.
BTW, I’m looking at her twitter, and she could be my new favorite person ever.
Vichus, I linked to her site constantly in KnB and she wrote for the site for over a year so!
Spencer said: “I’m wondering what happened though? I feel like us fans of her site deserve more of an explanation so we can all, the whole comics community that loved her, have some real closure.”
We already know what likely happened. It was probably the same stuff every non-white-guy talks about, ranging from blatant sexism to constant, wearying micro-aggressions (accelerated by the fact she is both female and Muslim). If you don’t know the problem, you haven’t been paying attention to years of complaints and discussion.
Demanding specifics is unnecessary and wallowing in wanting to know the morbid details. Fans “deserve” nothing but to learn to be better supporters of different, diverse opinions and to support those who call out this kind of horrible treatment when and where it occurs.
I almost want to install the Facebook comment system so I can “like” Johanna’s comment.
I just wanted to know if there was anyone we could hold accountable, in the comics community, for making her shut down her site. I’m sorry that came off as insensitive.