Blue Water Drowns

Curious (but quite welcome) surge in anti-Darren Davis posts lately.

From Chris Butcher telling it like it is in response to the publisher's asinine self-defense at the equally asinine newsarama, to Johanna Draper Carlson's well-worded affirmation of unwillingness in giving the crook any press (with follow-up here), to the powerhouse Heidi MacDonald going indepth while citing the work Rich Johnston had done on the subject months earlier.

Of course, I myself hit this target before any of these journalists, in my final days early last Fall at ComicNews.Info. In a two part installment of my old column the Lottery Party, I called out Davis after gathering words from a number of friends who had worked for the man before.
Part one and part two came and we quickly began to build some interesting comments. Unfortunately, the rest of the staff worried that things were getting too personal and that we may have presented ourselves into slander/libel territory, and so deleted all comments but the Davis copy and paste rubbish. Nonsense, of course. Eventually I parted with the site (for other reasons), thinking it to be one of many stories I still wanted to keep an eye on, somehow.
Now, even though months have passed, I do still get approached by burned creators wanting to know what their options are, as I am not at all afraid to speak out against liars like Davis. But what to tell almost two dozen well-meaning writers and artists? The stereotype is that many were/are rookies to the medium, even foreigners, but this is not the case. Some are just that, but some are scared to voice their concerns publicly, while others are not at all shy about the matter. And this stuff goes back years. There is at least one pending lawsuit that I know of, to date.
Davis' "explanation" given before in my articles, later in Johnston's piece, and more recently at newsarama (which I will not link as they are essentially a press release-only site) is absolute garbage. He has lied to numerous persons, denying thousands of dollars owed to people who are trying to provide for their families.
Darren Davis is a snake.

And the bitch of it all, is that I do still know some guys working for him. Somehow they are getting some kinda funds out of the clown, though generally less than what was agreed and almost always late. I worry for them, I really do.

So naturally, seeing others finally chime in on the obvious is vastly gratifying.