"Never assign to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity or ignorance."
"Great stories will always return to their original forms"
"Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable." James Baldwin
Be offended as much as you want my friend.
Not sure that a lot of people are going to give a damn about wolvie naked though.
I don't think that Marvel not using the covers means Manara isn't being paid for the work he was commissioned to do. Don't Marvel and DC have backlogs of stories and art they've bought but never used, like the Drew Johnson-drawn Wonder Woman story that just preceded the nu-52 and was finished but not published? Johnson still got paid, and I imagine Manara did as well.
And I bet Marvel still uses the covers in some form at some point down the line, even if it's a "Manara does Women of the Marvel Universe" sort of book.
yes but his reputation is being tarnished with this public withdrawal which is my worry.
Is his reputation really tarnished? If anything, I think his US profile is raised. The people like Manara aren't going to dislike him because of the Spider-Woman cover, and the people who don't like his art simply already know it. I think this notice has probably drawn more people who were unaware of his art to it and just repelled those who'd never be interested in it in the first place.
He doesn't have a "right" to draw a character as he sees fit, if that character is the intellectual property of someone else and that someone else chooses to have him draw it in certain paramters. Marvel ownw the characters, they are paying him for particular work. He doesn't just get to do anything he wants if Marvel objects.
His Spider Woman cover is termed "adult." I feel it should be termed "adolescent male."
Manara has a nice drawing style but he is well known for his sexually explicit (porno)graphic novels that depict women being raped and otherwise sexually manipulated. Many in his homeland of Italy think of him as "schifoso". Why would Marvel want to be associated with this?
Honestly, I never saw it as anything other than her coming up over the edge, but that's just me. Frank Miller's Detective Comics variant a while back was much more sexualized, and as there wasn't even a pretense of a background, you could hardly claim otherwise.
Still, people are hypersensitive to women and sexuality in comics. Men, not so much. It's ok for a man with an impossible physique to be in a skintight costume. But a woman? That's sexist!
His reputation is being tarnished? Have you ever read any of his graphic novels? His reputation is not Disney like as he graphically depicts children engaged in sexual activity. For more on his reputation: http://www.bleedingcool.com/forums/t...se-comics.html
To be fair, the Thor 2# variant was originally solicited to Robinson; they changed to Manara only two weeks ago. Maybe Manara had schedule issues.