Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Friday, September 30, 2005

Victim-Blaming, Comic Book Style

In case you thought silver-spoon Republicans are the only folks around telling others that if they don't pull themselves up by their bootstraps they're completely to blame for their fate, Erik Larsen calls even successful, working comic book professionals "pussies" and implies they should have guilty consciences because they don't do the kind of comics he thinks they should (i.e., they only stick to work-for-hire for companies that pay a decent wage to those pros lucky enough to have broken into the industry in the first place). Here's Peter David's response. You can probably figure out mine.

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