Marvel apparently rejected an essay by Art Spiegelman on fascism because of a Trump reference

In an essay for The Guardian which has increased this weekend, Maus The creator Art Spiegelman plunges into the golden age of the cartoon that occurred (depending on the people you ask) at some point between the late 1930s and the mid-1980s 1950, focusing more specifically on the birth of Marvel Comics and the taste of superheroes Captain America was created to counter the rise of fascism. In the end, he points out that superheroes are still popular, with Captain America continuing to fight the fascist Red Skull in mega-budget films in the same way that the US is terrorized by an "Orange Skull "- meaning Trump, obviously. . Spiegelman did not write the essay for The Guardianit was originally commissioned as an introduction to a collection of Marvel Golden Age comics published by the Folio Society.

In an additional addendum, Spiegelman says that a publisher of the Folio Society told him that Marvel (as a co-publisher of the collection) was trying to remain "apolitical" and wished he'd delete the reference to "Orange Skull". "I did not think I was particularly political about some of my fellow travelers," says Spiegelman, "but when I was asked to kill a relatively innocuous reference to an orange skull, I'm not sure about it." realized that it was perhaps irresponsible to play Spiegelman says that he decided to withdraw his essay from the publication for this reason, adding that he had also recently learned that the president of Marvel, Ike Perlmutter and his wife recently donated $ 360,000 to Trump. re-election campaign.

Perlmutter is a not-so-secret supporter of Trump for a long time, and Spiegelman takes this opportunity to present his entire dissertation on the intertwined stories of superheroes and fascism, noting: that everything is political … just like Captain America huddles Hitler on the jaw. "You can read the full test at this guardian link above.