The infamous Dave Sim has dispatched a form letter outlining his new correspondence policy. According to a scan by Inkstuds, he now requires potential pen pals to affirm that he is not a misogynist.
The largest Cerebus group on Yahoo yields a link to webpage that includes a wiki, but the contents of the group reveal that you actually need to sign this petition before contacting Mr. Sim.
Adjust your plans accordingly. (Hattip)
May 5th, 2008 at 9:30 am
*blink blink*
Oh Sim, Sim, Sim. So much crazy…
May 5th, 2008 at 9:37 am
Methinks he doth protest too much…
May 5th, 2008 at 10:18 am
Is he talking about on message boards? I’m curious about how he knows who likes his work and what forums they frequent. Unless he expects fans of his work to go out of there way to search for “Dave Sim is a misogynist” posts on google then posting in his defense.
May 5th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
That’s kind of awesome actually, and funny too.
May 5th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
So, is he saying that someone can’t enjoy the work he’s done and think he hates women at the same time? Or is it okay to think he hates women as long as they don’t actually use the word “misogynist”?
May 5th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
Dave Sim is free to contact me at any time, as long as he sends along a note admitting he is bigoted.
May 5th, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Anyone wishing to correspond with me must testify under oath that I TOTALLY would make a good writer for DOCTOR WHO.
May 6th, 2008 at 12:29 am
I hope this starts trends. Bendis only allows you to post if you agree he’s not bald; Millar only acknowledges your existence once you promise you’re not Graeme; Ellis invites you to his new next super-duper Internet presence when you show you’ve tattooed his name on your butt; and Busiek will only post on websites that agree he always wins…
May 6th, 2008 at 6:26 am
“Wah! I’m a horrible, hateful person and no one will stand up for me!”
Good grief…
May 6th, 2008 at 10:48 am
Can’t…stop…snickering…!
May 6th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
OH JOHN RINGO NO!
August 21st, 2008 at 12:27 pm
Essentially Dave Sim is being put through the ringer for not a whole lot more than having comsevative values. His cardinal sin seems to be espousing a point of view that, at its core, is non liberal and in his medium that is a death sentence.
Being anti feminist and anti feminist doctrine does not make one anti woman. That is a label that an elite group of liberal artists in the comics field have pinned on him and now the sycophants and touts are clamouring to help marginalize him.
I completely understand his wanting to have a petition put out there simply from reading this litany of bullying that’s being posted.
There have been a lot of people in the big corporate comics publishing machine that wanted to see Dave fail at producing a successful comic independantly for 300 issues. Now that he has done it they are joyously and continuously keying in on what they can to consistantly villify him.
T.S Eliot was an antisemite, Carl Sandburg hated blacks but they are still regarded as giants in their fields. I don’t believe Dave Sim deserves to be labelled alongside these writers in the light of racism, I’m simply making a point.
It just seems bizarre to me that so many people continue to marginalize Dave and so few look around these boards and notice this is turning into a worn out witch hunt.
Hopefully sooner than later people will get tired of playing “Kick Dave Sim in the Nuts”