Comments on: Bravo for Byrne; Golden’s Pettiness

By: Golden Sketch Fiasco Followup » Comics Worth Reading

Golden Sketch Fiasco Followup » Comics Worth Reading — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 11:43:53 +0000

[...] news on the story about Michael Golden scamming those who commissioned sketches from him and wanted them in the promised timeframe. He’s [...]

By: Daniel Best

Daniel Best — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 10:42:38 +0000

Well bugger me, you’re right. Ok, I’ll stand corrected, I am an idiot.

By: Troy Nunis

Troy Nunis — Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:52:04 +0000

Daniel — actually, Renee was Byrne’s editor for his second stint — Bobbie Chase was the editor for the first run which ended with the editorial dispute — so there goes that theory

By: Daniel Best

Daniel Best — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 20:33:36 +0000

Byrne may not necessarily have made this offer without some form of an agenda. You might recall that back in the day Byrne left THE SENSATIONAL SHE-HULK title after a few because he had creative differences with his editor/ Guess who that was? You got it: Renee Witterstaeter. Byrne only returned to SHE HULK after Witterstaeter left the book and Bobbie Chase became the new editor. I’m not aware of any major conflicts between Byrne and Golden in the past, but if he’s already not fond of Witterstaeter, and this also happens to be an outrageous action that’s now been publicly exposed, both aspects may have motivated John to make his generous offer. Food for thought. I still applaud him for making the offer as public as he has, but while it makes one artist look bad, another comes out of it looking good…

As for ‘at least three other people’, well I think you could easily ramp that number up considerably.

By: Fascination Place » This Week’s Haul

Fascination Place » This Week’s Haul — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 20:25:50 +0000

[...] Coincidentally, this story about Golden doing an art commission for a fan showed up the same week on John Byrne’s message board. If it’s legit (and since the poster is claiming it happened to him and not a “friend of a friend”, I see no reason to assume that it’s not), then it’s pretty pathetic that someone would actually do this. (Comics Worth Reading has more on this.) [...]

By: Michael Denton

Michael Denton — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:01:05 +0000

Kudos to JB nonetheless!

By: Johanna

Johanna — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:33:04 +0000

Well, you can’t really blame them… there are a number of folks who love to point and laugh at Byrne and his devotees, sometimes justifiably.

By: Michael Denton

Michael Denton — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 13:11:11 +0000

Wow – really amazing! Even if the guy bugged the crap out of Golden to get his piece, you just don’t do that – instead you send back the money and refuse the commission – not purposely vandalize the artwork he paid good money for.

I am also somewhat amazed by the level of paranoia on the Byrne board as to how JB’s truly selfless act will be twisted. That’s a bit scary!