David Finch, image 90s art and crossovers like the button.
Speaking of, David Finch has adopted the "direct consumer pipeline" market model himself and is enjoying great success so far. His channel's gone from zero to 38K subscibers in less than two months. In this stream he's talking about launching what presumably is his crowdfund when he "hits around 50,000 subs", which at the rate his channel is growing at will be a few weeks. His key to success? Get his wife to cohost the channel and promptly read superchats while he draws and answers questions regarding technique.
Finch discusses the Jae Lee situation at this timestamp, giving the most powerful non-condemnation of King's conduct towards friend Lee, reiterating his deep desire to not involve himself in online lynch mobs and sit down and draw apolitical content for his fans. Sounds familiar. While the debacles of Gail Simone and Donny Cates being laughed off youtube are fresh in our memory, more and more creators are starting to dabble in building youtube followings and found a crowdfunding customer pool. Hell, even Frog's brother started a channel. Now, as to whether this could be considered a success for Comicsgate depends on your perspective of Comicsgate either being a set of ideals or a community (both are somewhat true).
In other news, one of the more promising new Comicsgaters surprisingly turned out to be Shane Davis' very asian wife Yanzi Lin, who comically has built a larger presence than Shane Davis himself after declaring himself CG by roadhauling renfamous around twitter with her minority status to the point where ole' Lauren has had to switch to hopefully easier targets Micah Curtis and fyzgiggidy/Piper. Even going so far as trying to lure Peregrine's colorist into abandoning the project.
He went from being a key figure in a consumer movement to being eclipsed by mainstream figures cashing in on a movement he helped start. Add to that he's a hot head who holds a grudge together with @FROG trolling his enemies thru proxies like WC and CG and its not hard to figure Cummings out.
In related news Capt. Cummings has deactivated/deleted his account after publicly turning on Vikki and Preston Poulter, the latest blowback in the infighting "Anti-CG" movement triggered by Frog's exposure of humble Australian spacetrip merchant "Zombienomicon". An ignoble end to a Comicsgate founder if ever there was one.
Overall, the loose collection of individuals known as "Anti-CG" is in such a state that unlikely outside parties like Gail Simone and "Soy Rage" (in a stream now privated by Mecha McCheese where he went after Vikki and DA Talks after the latter on air called him a faggot and extended an invitation for him to eat shit) are now intervening to try and keep the opposition to Comicsgate from complete implosion.
