J. Scott Campbell Receives Harassment After Responding to Recent Social Media Outrage Against Nacho Arranz and Fran Duque’s Medusa

J. Scott Campbell Receives Harassment After Responding to Recent Social Media Outrage Against Nacho Arranz and Fran Duque’s Medusa

Gen 13 and veteran comic book artist J. Scott Campbell found himself the center of targeted attacks and accusations from social justice activists who took issue with his sexualized art style.

On September 7th, twitter user Sidney Tucker (@SidneyTucker666), whose account regularly features posts of ‘sexy’ depictions of fictional characters, posted an image of Marvel’s Inhuman Queen Medusa drawn by Nacho Arranz and featuring colors by Colombian artist Fran Duque (misspelled by Tucker as ‘Duke’):

This innocuous posting soon caught the attention of social justice activist “Lo” who proceeded to retweet the image with a misandrist declaration that “men are trash and shouldn’t be allowed to draw women” and subsequently clarifying that those who took offense at their comments were not allowed to defend themselves without being a “part of the problem.” (Archive link: http://archive.is/KTbC9)

again, men are trash and shouldn’t be allowed to draw women https://t.co/2zXAOh41TA — Lo ~ CEO of the ironfam (@bethanylovebot) September 7, 2019

first; if you’re offended by that and/or say “noT aLL MeN” then you’re part of the problem second; most of my fave comic book artists are men, they just actually draw women like y’know WOMEN — Lo ~ CEO of the ironfam (@bethanylovebot) September 7, 2019

This shot at Arranz and Duque’s work was soon met with agreement and affirmation from Lo’s fellow social justice obsessed critics. (Related: Comic Book Artist J. Scott Campbell Attacked as Racist and Pedo!)

can male? comic book artists? take? a basic anatomy class? please i’m begging — 𝐦 ✨ (@sebuckstiann) September 7, 2019

female artists please redraw this right now immediately this makes me regret being born — liz 🥯 (@littlebit9043) September 7, 2019

as a man, i partly agree with you! 😳 and also apologize for my gender’s history 😔 — miki minach (@blitzvesk) September 7, 2019

Lo then proceeded to shift the object of their criticism from Arranz and Duque’s Medusa piece to Campbell’s portfolio, insinuating that Campbell’s work carried pedophilic tendencies because he drew both regular teenage and ‘sexy’ adult characters, separately, in his own personal style:

these are all teenage girls (15-17) drawn by the same grown ass man can y’all see why women are uncomfortable with that??? pic.twitter.com/5BtB2Usgd9 — Lo ~ CEO of the ironfam (@bethanylovebot) September 7, 2019

???? 16/17 girls don’t look like that mister pic.twitter.com/uuENCfKxBt — Lo ~ CEO of the ironfam (@bethanylovebot) September 7, 2019

Campbell has had a long career in comics, having broken into the industry in 1993 with his Image Comics published original series Gen 13. Campbell has since gone on to be a regular variant cover artist for Marvel and to regularly publish his original series Danger Girl with co-creator Andy Hartnell. (Related: Danger Girl Movie Reportedly Finds Its Director!)

As support for Lo’s criticism grew, Campbell himself posted a tweet attempting to give the situation perspective in relation to general social media outrage:

It’s tempting to get discouraged by some of the negative comments on Twitter, but remember, even a comment as broad & incendiary as this one got nearly 30,000 “likes” and almost 5k retweets in just over a day. #aLittlePerspective pic.twitter.com/TePTbBuFYW — J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) September 9, 2019

Just to clarify, I’m not down. I actually found this to be a mood booster, because again, it wasn’t specific to me. Just a reminder that really dumb comments can get a lot of dumb people liking it. I mean, is there anything more ridiculous & unreasonable than THAT comment..?!? — J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) September 9, 2019

Campbell’s tweets garnered support from fellow Image Comics creator Erik Larsen, who also found Lo’s arguments to be disingenuous. (Related: J. Scott Campbell and Blake Northcott Defend Frank Cho)

The attempt to immediately backpedal and end up making no coherent point whatsoever? pic.twitter.com/PxytxlpYzc — Erik Larsen (@ErikJLarsen) September 9, 2019

Holy moly… You’ve GOT to be kidding me… Twitterverse at it’s finest right there… Accountability = Zero! — J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) September 9, 2019

Basically her point is that men shouldn’t be allowed to draw women unless they’re men whose work she likes in which case it’s totally okay for men to draw women. — Erik Larsen (@ErikJLarsen) September 9, 2019

Yeah, but again, around 30,000 people liked her blanket indictment of ALL men just fine, so… — J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) September 9, 2019

Veteran artist and industry icon Adam Hughes, who also found himself a target of those same critics, also responded to the criticisms, albeit by first mocking the criticism and then deleting those tweet in an attempt to call for civility:

I decided to take down the Tweet about the 2 unhappy people & the Power Girl art. It felt like it was becoming a ‘thing’, when I just thought it was a couple of amusing takes. There’s already enough poison in the air, right? It’s all good, thank you all for the kind words. — Adam Hughes (@AH_AdamHughes) September 10, 2019

Unfortunately, neither these comments by industry professionals nor the rampant mockery being aimed at them from the general comic book community would deter these critics, as they currently continue to harass Campbell with accusations of pedophilia and baseless attacks on his art:

I love pedophiles 🥰🥰 pic.twitter.com/TLKS0ykuQS — valkyrie’s a bicon ‎𖤍 ‎ϟ ‎✵ (@valkyries_queen) September 11, 2019

J Scott Campbell: “Yeah I draw underage woman in a gross disgusting sexualized way but it’s okay because it’s just art!! Why are you guys bullying me??? So it’s okay for men to he muscular but no woman can’t have boobs?? You guys are just jealous of them 😂😂” — Bryce 🌙 (@616Bryce) September 11, 2019

m*le comic book artists will draw female characters with their organs shoved in their tiddies and call it “accurate” and “a part of my style” i hate m*n — lyk got s worded again (@thorsjoon) September 10, 2019

literally ur demographic includes children and u draw like ur target audience is 30yo virgins who’ve alr given up on seeing a woman in real life https://t.co/ltJnlIinPc — ivy’s grapefruit pen (@laurakinnie) September 10, 2019

One user in particular, Nat, appears to have a vendetta of sorts against Campbell, as shown in their continued hyperbolic complaints and accusations against him:

this sounds like “HOW DARE FEMINISTS, HOW DARE WOMEN. I CAN’T EVEN DRAW A UNDERAGE TEEN SEXY ANYMORE WITHOUT THEY WANT TO CANCEL ME. WHO CARE THAT THOSE COMICS IS TO MAKE THEM FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES? I JUST WANNA DRAW SEXY UNDERAGE TEENS LOL” https://t.co/riUQSG7rt5 pic.twitter.com/48kwWhLHGJ — Nat (@StarkX23) September 10, 2019

Maybe if J Scott Campbell was able to draw sexy women with respect and in a really beautiful and empowering way like that ppl wouldn’t complain about his art: pic.twitter.com/dYEtgGeE3l — Nat (@StarkX23) September 10, 2019

but he just knows how to make their boobs bigger and put her in anatomically impossible positions and with the “u can masturbate for me” expression. I don’t know, J Scott Campbell, maybe stop hearing your incel minions and improve your art. — Nat (@StarkX23) September 10, 2019

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