08 September 2018
Censorship Update: It Pays To Fight for Your Work (UPDATED--VICTORY!)
UPDATE: Complete success. All the books that were up, are back where they should be, at Createspace, Kindle(both available via Amazon), AND...Comixology. And they even kindly apologized. Overall I feel their response ended every professionally, though it was extremely frustrating before that.
But yay!
For once, I beat censors, because I was enraged and did not give up. But far more importantly, they received a barrage of messages on my behalf from all of you. I only wish as many of you were buying them! But thanks mostly to you, I am back, and it is a wonderful feeling to feel as though I have agency in this for once. I have been buffeted about by this crap, and driven crazy about my work, by too many censors for far too long. Comics wins over censors far too rarely.
And we find it far too easy to assume censorship is something we can only cope with or get around, rather than shit, just shit, that we should not have to face at all.
We should not be told what to do by, for god's sake not even publishers, not even the government--booksellers; hypocrites who allow werewolf porn on Kindle in prose, but won't allow even an ordinary sex scene with much detail in a comic. We have to have visuals, so we get targeted. We should be able to explore anything prose can, or else we're an inferior medium, and we should keep fighting these companies to loosen their restrictive content standards for all creators, not just ones shielded by big companies.
So anyway, below is where it stood on Wednesday...
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Partial success! My print comics at Amazon are staying right where they are and my KDP account is to be restored. Thank you to everyone who wrote them to pressure them to not do this. It was prevented.
This also means my print titles on Amazon can be bought in Kindle editions too once more, which had been gone for many months before any of the rest of this.
Only Comixology remains--and they're re-reviewing all my titles, that each went through a year of approval before release.
I do not think I should go through that twice for LULU, SUZY SPREADWELL, or THIS SICKNESS #8. They were already approved, and they knew what they were selling. The books should never have been taken down. They should be restored, all of them.
So write them at info@comixology.com and insist these books be reinstated. Do it now. It works.
And thank you again, to everyone. (especially Donna Barr and Steve Bissette, who've been there so many times for me) I no longer feel like trash.
___________________
UPDATE: Complete success. All the books that were up, are back where they should be, at Createspace, Kindle(both available via Amazon), AND...Comixology. And they even kindly apologized. Overall I feel their response ended every professionally, though it was extremely frustrating before that.
But yay!
For once, I beat censors, because I was enraged and did not give up. But far more importantly, they received a barrage of messages on my behalf from all of you. I only wish as many of you were buying them! But thanks mostly to you, I am back, and it is a wonderful feeling to feel as though I have agency in this for once. I have been buffeted about by this crap, and driven crazy about my work, by too many censors for far too long. Comics wins over censors far too rarely.
And we find it far too easy to assume censorship is something we can only cope with or get around, rather than shit, just shit, that we should not have to face at all.
We should not be told what to do by, for god's sake not even publishers, not even the government--booksellers; hypocrites who allow werewolf porn on Kindle in prose, but won't allow even an ordinary sex scene with much detail in a comic. We have to have visuals, so we get targeted. We should be able to explore anything prose can, or else we're an inferior medium, and we should keep fighting these companies to loosen their restrictive content standards for all creators, not just ones shielded by big companies.
So anyway, below is where it stood on Wednesday...
___________________
Partial success! My print comics at Amazon are staying right where they are and my KDP account is to be restored. Thank you to everyone who wrote them to pressure them to not do this. It was prevented.
This also means my print titles on Amazon can be bought in Kindle editions too once more, which had been gone for many months before any of the rest of this.
Only Comixology remains--and they're re-reviewing all my titles, that each went through a year of approval before release.
I do not think I should go through that twice for LULU, SUZY SPREADWELL, or THIS SICKNESS #8. They were already approved, and they knew what they were selling. The books should never have been taken down. They should be restored, all of them.
So write them at info@comixology.com and insist these books be reinstated. Do it now. It works.
And thank you again, to everyone. (especially Donna Barr and Steve Bissette, who've been there so many times for me) I no longer feel like trash.
___________________
Labels: censorship, lulu, my comics, suzy spreadwell, this sickness
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