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Je me suis mal exprimé Honey !
Dans le cas qui nous intéresse, Van Sciver dessine des personnages de Cyberfrog (donc de son comics estampillé comicsgate) AVEC des personnages de Dynamite. ON peut donc considérer que oui, Dynamite promeut les créations de van sciver qui ne sont pas dynamite et donc finance le comicsgate. Le problème il est là...
En gros c'est comme si ton patron donnait le droit à ton collègue d'utiliser ton travail à toi pour financer son parti/mouvement. Et le rémunérait mieux que toi aussi et faisait de la pub pour ton collègue à tes cleints !
The latest, it seems, is Ethan Van Sciver. No longer working for major comics publishers and fresh from last summer's very successful Indiegogo campaign for Cyberfrog: Blood Honey, the comic is yet to be published. But Ethan is now commissioning himself to draw Cyberfrog variant covers to Dynamite Entertainment titles, showing his cyborg amphibian interacting with other characters published by Dynamite. At one point, Vampirella and Cyberfrog were both published by Harris Publications, and Ethan has done artwork for Vampirella trading cards and inked the Vampirella/Shadowhawk crossover in the day, so this wouldn't be the first time he's been involved with the character. But I hear there are more to come, one might consider Chaos!, Pantha and others as prime Cyberfrog crossover comic book cover candidates.
Traditionally, creators who purchase the comics are treated the same as any retailer. Whether the creators of any of those books will have any say in who gets to do retailer exclusive variant covers of their books, I don't know.
But basically that means that Ethan Van Sciver has bought hundreds of copies of the same comic, with a cover he drew, for a wholesale price that retailers pay, maybe aroud two bucks each, and gets to sell them at quite the markup. Well, it's one way to get a Cyberfrog comic out there for convention season, draw the character on the cover of someone else's comic and sell that…
Since then, Barrucci has sold a number of such covers to prominent Comicsgate creators alongside other creators such as Amanda Conner and Frank Cho. But it was Dynamite's decision to promote the covers by running crowdfunders for them on IndieGoGo, alongside similar campaigns for other creators that caused significant disquiet from Dynamite's own comic book creators. Some of whom found their books being promoted by Dynamite alongside these covers. It was specifically the promotion of one of those covers, by leading Comicsgate figures Cecil and Donal DeLay that seemed to tip the balance, with the official Dynamite account tweeting out an appeal to their 'next cash grab!' with a link to a Dynamite IndieGoGo crowdfunding appeal to fund the cover.
Dynamite had also emailed out promotions to Dynamite customers promoting those creators livestreams regarding these covers, accounts on which Comicsgate creators often promote their messages and criticisms. In addition to sales and promotion, there is also an intrinsic value to having characters and creators associated with Dynamite aligned with Comicsgate creators and characters, considered by some as a kind of laundering of intellectual property.
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