Last month a J. Scott Campbell variant cover for Marvel's Invincible Iron Man featuring Riri Williams caused a tremendous amount of discussion around how women are portrayed in comics. In this particular case, a Black teenager. But what it also did was highlight how reactions to critiques can say quite a lot. The variant cover was a Midtown Comics exclusive for the upcoming comic from creative team Brian Michael Bendis and Stefano Caselli. Marvel and Midtown Comics decided jointly to pull the cover, and while Campbell's reaction to critics wasn't great at first, it seems he was taking what fans were saying to heart. You may recall he did explain later his illustration was rushed: Sometimes these covers, like this one, are drawn in haste to meet a deadline and you have fly by the seat of your pants and fall back a bit on instinct rather than ultra-careful thought.
- 11/2/2016
- by Jill Pantozzi
- Hitfix
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