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It may be too late to turn the tide but it is worth to let them know. Thanks for the opportunity and for taking the time to do this. - Pepe Moreno

Fully agree. For too long the comic book industry has been handled by people with no love for the characters or the creative personnel. Time to stand up and be counted.  - Daniel Best

I have a eight year old grandson who loves to draw and i would like to see a brighter future for all the children who pursue the love of sketching. Thank you,  – Joanne Dikeman

Yes, let’s permit diversity to flourish. – Gregory Wolf

Time for the big duo to focus on creator owned publications. – Peebo Mondia

Good Luck with this. I don’t see a petition accomplishing any thing at all, but I’ll sign. Frankly, if a company CAN dominate and profit by strangle hold and there is nothing to police them, then why Would they give in and lose profits? – Grant Moon

Thanks for starting this, Michael. This is an issue that needs to be pressed vigorously. – Dan Longe

Please do something to encourage younger generations to discover the joys of comic books for example producing cheaper versions that are more widely available. – Dr SWG Travis

Time for this to go. – Daniel W. Ring

I wish you luck with this. As an artist, I’d like to see this happen. I doubt it will, as shareholders, and the company heads have no wish to share in the goods anymore than Exxon oil CEO’s share with drillers. The comics industry still operates under a number of archaic practices, and that’s not likely to change by saying “please”. I do believe it’s time to do business with other distributors, and get comics out of these specialty shops. When this shift occurred, in the 80′s, I heard the death bell toll. Then Image did more harm in the 90′s. You really want to change things? Then circumvent the current system, and start another. And, embrace the digital domain as well. Thanks. – Ken Hooper

If DC and Marvel nurtured a fraction of the talent that 200AD does the comic industry would be in great shape with more revenue all round. – Andy Agnew

We need new blood in the industry if it is to survive. The big two should make it easier for smaller companies and individuals to enter this wonderful medium.Comics are the front line for the industry, and as such should be the strongest. I love collected graphic novels and Hardback books, but it was comics that drew me into the magical world of D.C. and Marvel. – MICHAEL. J. HEXTER

Well, print is obviously dying, but while it lives, it should be more diverse than the DC/Marvel domination of the form would seem to permit. Thankfully, book publishers seem to be picking up more and more graphic novels. The floppy format SHOULD die, maybe. And the companies themselves will consider this petition a joke if they notice it at all. Nonetheless, I’m with you in spirit. Everyone should just make outrageously good comics all the time and put them out by any means necessary. Media is mutable, but content will prevail. – Jason Squamata

License this. Nuff said. – Jack Napier

This is why I gave up comics. – Charles May

It is the independent writers and illustrators who keep this genre interesting and unique. Please allow them to flourish as well… there is room for everyone! – Sara Kuhns

“We call upon DC Comics and Marvel Comics to turn their attention back to the comic book publishing industry – and release their strangle-hold on the distribution and marketing of comics, so that other enterprises would have room to grow.” “nuff said” – Michael T Silcox

I’m going into Comic Book Illustration next year at university and newcomers like myself (only just finished 3 years) want to have a shot at the “Big Two :D – Paul Boyling

The comic-book market shrinks everyday, Indies are important because they bring in other people that do not care about the power fantasies embodied by superheroes. Just take a look at the sucess of Kirkman & Adlard’s The Walking Dead. Diversity can only help the comic-book industry. – Victor Rosario Fermaint

The common sense option here is that a better market means more money for all. – Roger A Wilbanks

I feel that both DC and Marvel should allow greater space in distribution to their competitors. Enough Superman shirts and Spider-Man figures will be sold in the next month to generate the yearly profit of several indie titles. – Jefferson Sergeant

This has my full support. The comics industry is in a sad and sorry state it is about time it was overturned to what it once was. – Gillian Mann

When the big two stopped making kid’s comics which lost us generations of future readers and the monopoly of distribution pretty much destroyed any chance of that changing by losing us 2/3 of the mom and pop comic stores in the country courtesy of the “collector’s” antics that occurred, makes this pretty much the last chance to save one of only truly American art forms from ruin, if it isn’t already too late… – Arne Star

I strongly stand with this movement to save comics. As a longtime comic-book reader, who is expressly unhappy with the current state of mainstream comics, I advocate the diversity in the comics field, which has been largely comprised of the superhero franchises by the two major companies. Only independent companies like Dark Horse, IDW, Oni Press and other labels were able to diversify into other territories, with corporate or creator-owned titles, for any age set, be it for kids, teenagers, or adults. They realize that comics is and should be a broad medium that covers any and all genres, And I don’t see why DC or Marvel shouldn’t do the same. Please don’t misunderstand me; the superhero genre is a wonderful (and often misused and misrepresented) one, and I have always loved it (especially from its halcyon years), but it is not the *only* genre for comics. And within this monopoly, there are far too many titles for select characters (Batman, Spider-Man, X-Men, etc. have unprecedented *dozens* of titles, drastically overshadowing their other titles, and using resources that could’ve gone to better things; DC and Marvel should be a bit more conservative about that, and allow more room for other titles to breathe). Even video games (one of several mediums that comics and certain other media have lost face to) have been more diverse, with titles for kids, teenagers, and adults, and are not all the same genre. And besides, even television isn’t (and, to a point, shouldn’t be) only drab prime-time dramas or cynical reality shows. And adding to the point, I also stand strongly for the distribution of creator-owned titles, as I hinted at earlier. There are lots of creative voices with all sorts of wacky new ideas that could potentially save the industry. And outside of the “Big Two,” they’ve gotten a lot of acclaim (especially original dark superhero dramas like Gerard Way’s THE UMBRELLA ACADEMY, or lighthearted offbeat comedies like Bryan Lee O’Malley’s SCOTT PILGRIM, or epic adventures like Jeff Smith’s BONE, or even funny kids’ comics like Scott Roberts’ obscure PATTY CAKE). I wholeheartedly think that DC and Marvel should definitely follow this example. Having made my point with my above appeal, I hope that I, along with the others signing this petition, can save comics from the dubious direction it’s heading in. – John Paul Cassidy

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