I can guarantee I am not the only one,” Ferguson wrote. “As a woman who works in the comics industry, I am suddenly feeling very unsafe. Critic Amy Garvey-Eckett wrote on Twitter Wednesday, “What everyone who inevitably buys a copy of any future Warren Ellis work is saying, is that they care more about a comic than about the people he targeted and harmed or the safety and wellbeing of every feminine presenting person in their lives.”Ĭomics publicist Tara Ferguson published an op-ed on The Beat outlining what the announcement meant for her personally, and other women in the industry: Reaction to news of Ellis’ imminent return was overwhelmingly negative. However, it’s understood that Ellis’ work on both projects was completed ahead of the allegations against him being made public. I don’t think anyone thought he’d bugger off and work in a shoe factory or anything,” the artist wrote.Īlthough Ellis has been publicly silent since a June 19, 2020, public statement, two high-profile projects he’d written have been released since then: the conclusion of his 12-issue DC series The Batman’s Grave, which ended in December, and the fourth and final season of Netflix’s animated series Castlevania, which was released in May of this year. “Not for me to speak for Warren, but I agreed to do the book and I’m glad he’s going to be doing some comics again. In his post, Templesmith obliquely acknowledged Ellis’ hiatus. The series originally ran - irregularly - from 2005 through 2008 and ended unfinished in the intervening years, both Templesmith and Ellis had teased a potential conclusion in the future. On Monday, artist Templesmith announced on his Patreon blog that he would be reteaming with Ellis for new issues of Fell. “It is our sincere hope that the conversations that are beginning now will result in positive changes for everyone. The publisher directed readers to visit So Many of Us, a website created by women who say they were manipulated by Ellis.

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