DC Comics Artist Richard Pace Posts Diversity & Comics’ KickStarter Appeal Claiming He is a Liar!

John F. Trent |

Oct 1, 2018

DC Comics artist Richard Pace, who is working on Vertigo’s Second Coming series, posted an alleged leaked screen shot of Richard Meyer appealing a rejection from KickStarter for his Jawbreakers – Lost Souls graphic novel, which he eventually crowdfunded on IndieGoGo.

Meyer’s lawsuit against Waid makes this the right time for this:
Kickstarter rejected Jawbreakers, initially & upon appeal, for grounds of discrimination & intolerance back in April of this year.
Meyer lied to his followers about this, claiming IGG was his choice

Please share. pic.twitter.com/tdDSSV2ak5

— Richard Pace (@rpace) October 1, 2018

The alleged appeal shows Meyer asking KickStarter to allow his Jawbreakers – Lost Souls crowdfunding to be run on KickStarter. It appears the appeal was rejected. KickStarter responded explaining that the project was rejected because it “does not allow projects that promote discrimination, subjugation, or intolerance towards marginalized groups.”

Pace claims the screenshot is “proof” that Meyer’s “character was of no value months before AP [Antarctic Press] decided to part ways with him.”

The receipt on Meyer lying to his followers about why he went to Indiegogo. Also, proof his character was of no value months before AP decided to part ways with him.https://t.co/GtUsRx3pHX https://t.co/GtUsRx3pHX

— Richard Pace (@rpace) October 1, 2018

The leaked screenshot comes after news broke that Richard Meyer was suing Mark Waid for tortious interference and defamation.

Pace indicated that this alleged evidence makes it harder for Meyer’s attorneys to claim that Antarctic Press would have dropped Meyer and Jawbreakers – Lost Souls without Waid’s involvement.

He’s suing Waid for supposedly driving AP to do what Kickstarter did months previously without any Waid involvement.
A part of what Meyer has to prove is Waid forced AP to do something they wouldn’t have done otherwise. This makes that significantly harder.

— Richard Pace (@rpace) October 1, 2018

In posting the screenshot, Pace also claims that Meyer is “homophobic and sexist.”

No. I assure you. I’m a real prick. Particularly to people who ally with homophobic and sexist pieces of garbage like Meyer.

Yeah – -you’ve seen me at cons. Hilarious.

— Richard Pace (@rpace) October 1, 2018

Pace also claims that he was in communication with someone at KickStarter who stated that they rejected his crowdfunding project “with cause.”

It’s what he was saying. I was told by someone very much in the know at KS he was being rejected with cause when he was claiming there was just a delay, then it was taking too long. I got the screen shot later

— Richard Pace (@rpace) October 1, 2018

He believes he is a fighting a hate group by releasing this screenshot.

I am a grown man, allied against a hate group. This is how you fight a hate group.

— Richard Pace (@rpace) October 1, 2018

Nick Rekieta of Rekieta Law tells us, “Nothing about any of this matters in any legal sense for Meyer.”

What do you make of Pace’s claims?

We reached out to Richard Meyer for a comment and he declined. We also reached out to KickStarter, but they did not respond at the time of publication.