Jon Del Arroz

The Leading Hispanic Voice in Science Fiction

Jon Del Arroz

The ComicsGate Harassment Business Model

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ComicsGate at one point was a journalistic reaction to youtube critics being harassed by professionals — threatened and targeted at conventions. It’s changed a lot in the last couple of years under the influence of a former comic pro Ethan Van Sciver, with a group of youtubers banding together and using outrage marketing to try […]

The Fall Of Valiant Comics

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Valiant Comics’ resurgence was quite an amazing success story. Former CEO Dinesh Shamdasani really lined up some of the best talent available to recreate the characters from the short-lived 1992 Jim Shooter experiment of Valiant, a company that also had a very promising beginning, and was bought by Acclaim for video game production, soon tanking […]

Targeted Harassment: San Francisco Bay Area Convention Bans Popular Hispanic Author For Life!

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What a crazy week again. It seems these old white women in science fiction will stop at nothing to make sure they have a monolithic undiverse environment as I’ve been targeted and harassed by a bay area convention again. Here’s the email they sent: The unfortunate part is that these groups are wising up to […]

Post Tom DeFalco Interview Thoughts

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Talking to Tom was incredible. He’s by far my favorite comic writer because his work ethic is unsurpassed, plus he’s got that pulp-style aesthetic to his books which couples positive heroism with the great soap opera drama that Stan Lee brought to his audience and changed the comic landscape forever. If anything, the takeaway is […]