Creative Differences, part 1

digresssmlOriginally published June 19, 1998, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1283

“Creative differences” happen all the time.

The term has become something of a catchphrase to encompass a wide variety of reasons why someone leaves a particular project. It’s nice, it’s non-inflammatory. It doesn’t assign blame; it simply says that two (or more) parties were unable to see eye-to-eye on a situation, something had to give, and one of the parties simply threw up their hands and walked away.