Side note: I did know someone who sat like that all the time, and it was inspiring to me. I thought it was unique, cute & showed a ton of personality. Everything you want to convey in a piece to make it stand out & catch the eye, & the reaction exceeded all my expectations!
— J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) May 5, 2021
Artist Campbell was targeted again by the Orwellian anti-sex mob online because he’d taken issue with a cybertroll artist’s effort to desecrate his work on Amazing Spider-Man #601’s cover, spotlighting Peter Parker’s paramour Mary Jane Watson. Somebody who not only considered her beauty an abomination, but obviously isn’t a fan of her, or her creator Stan Lee. Not even of John Romita Sr, who as artist officiated her debut into the MCU back in 1966.
Needless to say, it’s offensive at this point that anybody with such a belittling mentality would come within even miles of associating themselves with Lee’s creations. But it does explain why Mary Jane could be ejected so easily from Spidey’s life in 2007, while these anti-sex freaks have no objections.
Including, stunningly enough, people with anime pictures in their profiles:
The fact that the fix it fixed version looks very good. It proves that he could draw less sexualized drawings he just choose not to.
The thing that most bothers me is the vacuum sealed breast in the t-shirt in the original— Let (@letilider) May 7, 2021
You know, if I get just one more Twitter lecture about anatomy or how artwork needs to be “photo-real” and “body positive” from another person with an Anime profile pic, I’m going to go out of my mind! Anime is exactly the same exaggeration kids
— J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) May 6, 2021
It’s hypocrisy at its worst when somebody allegedly big on a medium where surrealism reigns supreme starts lecturing about how to draw USA comics. Even before manga became such a phenomenon, American comics were already long big on the surrealism themselves, including Golden Age Marvel creations like Sub-Mariner.
To make matters worse, when Clownfish TV commented on this subject, Youtube censored a thumbnail with Mary Jane’s cleavage on it, as though it weren’t bad enough Lee’s leading lady, possibly inspired by his own wife Joan’s career as a model, was already being abused so badly by the PC crowd, ever since Joe Quesada first began this persecution of MJ 2 decades ago when he tragically became Marvel’s EIC. It risks a dangerous precedent of censoring material Lee himself fully approved of in his time.
And all the while, here’s the picture that’s being missed: the way JSC draws MJ is fine. But this was for a 2009 cover, about 2 years after Quesada forced a breakup of the Spider-marriage. Which brings us to the double-standard the SJWs have: they take offense at Mary Jane, yet they’re perfectly fine with Quesada destroying Peter and MJ’s marriage to suit his agenda. In a way, that’s the downside of the Spidey cover by Campbell: it hints at the status quo from the time. What good is such a coverscan when it doesn’t honor the marriage?
So I think it’s a terrible shame JSC had to go through with more of this online antagonism. But depending how how you view this, it’s honestly a shame he contributed an illustration for Spidey and Mary Jane at a timme when repellent editorial mandate was kept solid in place, and the coverscan does nothing to improve upon it.
Originally published here.
UPDATE: Unfortunately, even though people were defending the cuteness and appropriateness of drawing Spidey’s supermodel wife in an attractive feminine pose, J. Scott Campbell back-peddled a few hours later and threw all of his defenders of that 10+ year old variant cover under the bus.
To get serious for a moment… pic.twitter.com/tUCrZdMhXT
— J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) May 8, 2021
And the internet wasn’t happy.
I should add that those same people accusing you of all these things are not going to change their minds just because you say so.
Part of the effort isn’t just to wear you down, but to encourage you to disavow those fans who defend you.
— Saeger Ryman (@saegerart) May 8, 2021
I’m not sure if he realizes or cares that he just defamed tens of thousands of fans in the same fashion that his work and character has been defamed.
No need to spew the same tired old lie that CG is a bigoted alt-right hate group when it’s demonstrably untrue.
— peter simeti (@petersimeti) May 8, 2021
Wow. Campbell is a cowardly clown. He “bent the knee” after trusted the word of haters over his own instincts then crapped on his biggest defenders.
I’m done with his type. @heelvsbabyface is absolutely spot-on. I will never forget this unwarranted attack by @JScottCampbell.
— All-American Male (@AllAmericanMaIe) May 10, 2021
Actually, the venomous, hateful, salacious accusations I get regularly from the other side doesn’t really endear then to me either. So I’ll have to live without being part of either honestly.
— J. Scott Campbell♠️🎨 (@JScottCampbell) May 8, 2021
What a shame. Ethan Van Sciver and Dan Fraga weighed in on Campell’s peculiar change of heart:
Az from HeelVsBabyface also felt bad for heaping praise on Campbell once he saw the turnabout.