Comic Book Creator Feuds

[Punisher RULES]

Here's a topic I've always been interested in. From the early days of Marvel to now, have there been any big feuds of any sorts involving the creators?

For example, I've heard things about Bendis and Kevin Smith having a thing in the early 2000's but I never heard the actual dirt.

If you know of one, post it!

 

[Max J Power]

Somewhere in the archives of Newsarama's forum is an epic clash between Rob Liefeld and Rags Morales. Here's a link to the final post.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showpost.php?p=4227091&postcount=116

 

[Manic]

I think Alan Moore has talked smack about Frank Miller quite a few times. I remember him saying how much he hates 300, and he once wrote a parody that mocked Miller's Daredevil run.

 

[runawayboulder]

Some that I know of, not sure if you'd call them epic, but the internet wasn't around for these feuds to play themselves out on:

Roger Stern beefed with Mark Gruenwald over the direction of The Avengers leading to Stern getting fired.

Jim Shooter and Peter David back during Shooter's tenure as EIC and David as writer of PPTSSM. Caught up in it was Jim Owsley, Spider-Man editor and writer.

Alan Moore vs. the universe.

 

[runawayboulder]

Somewhere in the archives of Newsarama's forum is an epic clash between Rob Liefeld and Rags Morales. Here's a link to the final post.

http://forum.newsarama.com/showpost.php?p=4227091&postcount=116

"And as far as being me? I'm sure you'd lop off your right hand at the wrist to be me. If you knew what a wrist looks like."

Rags Morales just got himself a new fan.

 

[HR-PUFF&STUFF]

stan lee and all the old school guys

 

[kguillou]

Yeah wasnt their a big beef between Stan and Jack Kirby over the creation of certain characters and stuff?

 

[masteryoda]

John Byrne vs. his career. Todd McFarlane vs. sequential art. Eric Larsen vs. the human anatomy.

 

[Manic]

That reminds me: Todd McFarlane vs. Neil Gaiman. That lawsuit over Miracleman/Marvelman went on for years.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Here's a topic I've always been interested in. From the early days of Marvel to now, have there been any big feuds of any sorts involving the creators?

For example, I've heard things about Bendis and Kevin Smith having a thing in the early 2000's but I never heard the actual dirt.

If you know of one, post it!

The way I remember it, Kevin Smith was going to write a mini-series for Daredevil around the time the movie was coming out. Daredevil/Bullseye: The Target it was, and basically he wanted to make it so Bullseye had a reason to actually hate DD, instead of just being a mercenary (even though, I remmeber certain stories which would give Bullseye plenty of reason to hate DD). This conflicted with Bendis run in DD because he was planning on having Bullseye appear soon (Bullseye made a small appearance in one issue already). But Joe Quesada basically ruled that Smith got to handle Bullseye and Bendis had to wait. On top of that, Smith didn't know what to do about the unmasking deal, and I guess Quesada basically told him not to worry about it because the unmasking was going to be reverted anyway, which was not Bendis' plan at all.

So anyway, one issue of that mini came out, which didn't mention the fact that DD was unmasked, and in which Bullseye wore his crappy movie costume, and then that was it. Bendis ended up waiting until DD #49 to get Bullseye in the book, and basically worked it around whatever Smith's story was supposed to be (which never came out).

Not a big fued I would say, but kind of annoying I guess.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

John Byrne vs. his career. Todd McFarlane vs. sequential art. Eric Larsen vs. the human anatomy.

Harvey Pekar vs David Letterman

 

[masteryoda]

Yeah, in the DD dvd extras Smith admitted to being a *****e on that one.

 

[masteryoda]

Letterman kicked his ass.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

I think Alan Moore has talked smack about Frank Miller quite a few times. I remember him saying how much he hates 300, and he once wrote a parody that mocked Miller's Daredevil run.

Similarly, I think Grant Morrison has called Alan Moore a hack.

 

[CantThinkOfAName]

Some that I know of, not sure if you'd call them epic, but the internet wasn't around for these feuds to play themselves out on:

Roger Stern beefed with Mark Gruenwald over the direction of The Avengers leading to Stern getting fired.

Jim Shooter and Peter David back during Shooter's tenure as EIC and David as writer of PPTSSM. Caught up in it was Jim Owsley, Spider-Man editor and writer.

Alan Moore vs. the universe.

Jim Shooter, the G-Unit of Marvel comics

 

[hippie_hunter]

I think Alan Moore has talked smack about Frank Miller quite a few times. I remember him saying how much he hates 300, and he once wrote a parody that mocked Miller's Daredevil run.

To be fair, Alan Moore hates everyone.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I would think that J.G. Jones isn't fond of James Robinson.

 

[hippie_hunter]

I would think that J.G. Jones isn't fond of James Robinson.

 

[Manic]

To be fair, Alan Moore hates everyone.

True enough, but he actually went through the trouble of making a short comic that mocks Miller's writing.

http://xrayspex.blogspot.com/2008/03/alan-moore-spoofs-frank-miller.html

 

[Drz]

Alan Moore hates his own work too pretty much.

 

[Havok83]

Chris Claremont and John Byrne used to clash back when they did Uncanny X-men back in the 80s

 

[Tron Bonne]

True enough, but he actually went through the trouble of making a short comic that mocks Miller's writing.

http://xrayspex.blogspot.com/2008/03/alan-moore-spoofs-frank-miller.html

Hah, I've never seen that before. Pretty weird, but kind of funny too. That's interesting; I didn't know Moore disliked Miller or anything. I remember he bashed 300 in the past. That kind of makes sense though.

Alan Moore hates his own work too pretty much.

I don't think so. He mostly seems to hate what his earlier stuff spawned.

 

[random_havoc]

Erik Larsen vs Peter David

If you go back and read the letter's pages in the relatively early ishes of Savage Dragon there's, I think, a couple dozen of them where Larsen just goes on and on hating on David, saying he's never written anything original, his ideas are crap, etc. Apparently on the opposite side David was saying how image just ripped off other comics (which was largely true at the time).

 

[TheCorpulent1]

"And as far as being me? I'm sure you'd lop off your right hand at the wrist to be me. If you knew what a wrist looks like."

Rags Morales just got himself a new fan.

Yeah, that was a fun feud. I remember reading through Newsarama's archives to see it play out. Insanely unprofessional on both sides but hilarious nonetheless.

 

[iloveclones]

John Byrne vs. his career. Todd McFarlane vs. sequential art. Eric Larsen vs. the human anatomy.

I can't even pick which one of those are funnier (or more true)