I’ve been watching the Ethan Van Sciver harassment of @darrylayo over the weekend, and hearing stuff about him for a lot longer. I’d like to write about it for The Atlantic, so I’m putting out a call: if you’ve been harassed by him or his trolls, DMs and email are open.
— Asher Elbein (@asher_elbein) January 28, 2018
Background for you poor souls who aren’t into comic books: Ethan Van Sciver is an DC Comics artist with a Nazi-friendly attitude, a few comics portfolios decorated with artistic swastikas, and a tendency to sic his horde of fanatical GamerGaters on people who displease him, usually by not being Van Sciver fanatics.
It’s been a huge embarrassment that DC is willing to have this asshole working for them, and a prominent article in the Atlantic about his misbehavior would probably get him the heave-ho for good.
EDIT: And Van Sciver is already in replies making (mostly empty) lawsuit threats.