Welcome to Ink & Imagination, brought to you by Those Two Geeks.

In the second half of our Creator Rights special, a new generation takes up Jack Kirby’s fight, and nearly burns the industry to the ground doing it. It’s the 1990s. Comic book artists like Todd McFarlane, Jim Lee, and Rob Liefeld are household names, outselling even their publishers. Tired of seeing their creations owned by corporations, seven superstars walk out of Marvel and form Image Comics. A publisher built on a single rule: “The creator owns the creation.”

This episode explores how Image Comics changed the balance of power, how greed and hype pushed comics to the brink, and how the fight for creator rights reshaped the medium in both triumph and tragedy.

Because every rebellion has its price, and every artist’s freedom comes with a fight.

Music by Nicholas Panek from Pixabay