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===Feud with Ethan Van Sciver and ComicsGate===
Apparently once rebuffed[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVjdfm61ug] by [[Ethan Van Sciver]] in an attempt to enlist him to draw for [[Alt★Hero]], Vox Day disparaged the artist as a "moderate" on his blog, touching off a minor round of video commentary in January 2018, during which Sciver also negatively reviewed the Vox-written comic ''Quantum Mortis''.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpVjdfm61ug][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3GjO1AYXpRs][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuvwiwgyD_M][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbKxYeFNL0]. The two seemed to patch things up in a video chat, and for a half a year, all was quiet.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcbKxYeFNL0] During the spring and summer of 2018, Sciver, going independent after leaving [[DC Comics]], transitioned from just another artist into one of the central figures of the ComicsGate and anti-[[Social justice warrior|SJW]] movement as he devoted more time to expanding his YouTube channel, and especially during the launch of his ''CyberFrog: Bloodhoney'' as the highest-grossing crowd-funded comic book of the year (said channel-promoted/crowd-funding model having been shown viable with the greatly-exceeding expectations success of ''Jawbreakers'' by "Diversity & Comics"' Richard C. Meyer).
In the first week of September, 2018, a collaborative misunderstanding between Vox Day and Sciver boiled over into public YouTube exchanges (Vox Day videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LTfqfF9MtE][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGZ9Vtxee1g&t=132s][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-DONeP8SVs][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPMkUzcPaWE]; EVS videos: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3utMhoPRvd8][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VzHnpGWZyk&t=1707s][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSh0Jw3WThE&t=2329s]). Vox announced an intention to create a "ComicsGate Comics" imprint. Reaction within the [[ComicsGate]] community was immediate and nigh uniformly negative, as such an imprint would funnel term-searching toward the imprint, when they felt that Vox had not earned the right to the name, either in a general sense, or legally, as in a trademark sense.[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMnUM0KwphY][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDrlIYZMVFE][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwlMfGpVD7I][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoF7EqwT11c][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY_TcTIsKOY][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDP7lSUIDnE][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY3kl085eyI][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZjbbxBDiPc][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MaRPbI5Gjak][https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JK-Fei1TTKQ] Vox withdrew the imprint two days later.
The ComicsGates movement emerged stronger as a result of the incident, as the disassociation of the [[alt-right]] Vox Day provided them clear refutation of the incessant [[Social justice warrior|SJW]] claim that major ComicsGate figures were alt-right [[Neo-Nazis|nazis]].
== Hugo Award nominations ==
