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Interesting ponderings... As a comic artist with a queer comic myself, I have never considered adapting the rainbow to promote my work. I also make comics for ministers, kids, teachers. I guess I feel the rainbow isn't my "brand", my brand is ME, as an artist with many aspects. So in my opinion, you are totally free to choose your own colors/styles in which to present yourself.

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Very well said! I also consider my "brand" to be ME, at least in this instance as seen through the lens of my characters! Also, Hi, Margreet!

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It's interesting to hear how your display comes off to other people, because I never thought your table's backdrop looked particularly "gay". The "rainbow" is so incredibly understated in your backdrop that I think you'd have to be very sensitive to be put off by that... and, personally, I'm not interested in appealing to "snowflakes" ;)

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Dude, the “gay shit” guy was clearly gay.

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Was he? I have no memory of him pinging on my gaydar but you were there observing so entirely possible you saw something I didn't, while I was busy explaining our work to him. I can't even remember if he bought anything!

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If I may, getting into the technical side. Regarding the table backdrop. Maybe it’s a matter of editing?

For example, when I see your banner (the 7 color one) It tells me “woa, there’s a lot of stories here”.

But when I see the backdrop, the focus (brightest spot) goes to Spectrum and Magical Mister Punch and my brain responds as if it was looking at a romance novel cover, in the way that says “oh this is related to this theme ok”. Like browsing through a page of covers, we understand a guy with futuristic guns, a warrior girl with a magical sword etc. and I totally agree with you, these arent “adjective” comics/stories, these are comics and stories. So maybe there are a couple tweaks one can do, like when making a cover to show a bit more.

In my mind,something in the style of a kickstarter trailer, would work great, just playing in a loop on a tv beside you. Why repeat the pitch 100 times if you can just play it with the scenes that can help the most.

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