Newly tapped Marvel Comics Editor-In-Chief C.B. In November, Cebulski, who is white, admitted that he once wrote comics under the Japanese pen name Akira Yoshida. In a U.S. industry where women and people of color are underrepresented, Cebulski pretended to be a Japanese man to give himself a certain credibility. “I made some very bad choices at that time,” Cebulski told CBS. In April 2017, David Gabriel suggested that comic book sales were down because “people didn’t want any more diversity.”“Any character that was diverse, any character that was new, our female characters, anything that was not a core Marvel character, people were turning their nose up against,” Gabriel said.

Source: Huffington Post June 04, 2018 21:22 UTC