I recently decided to take a look and see what political causes and candidates the various men and women (but, lets be honest here, its mostly men) who run comics decided to support financially. This information is actually relatively easy to find, thanks to two independent websites dedicated to shining a light on non-confidential political contributions: Political Moneyline and Fundrace Neighbor Search. In all cases the attempts to verify the identity of the officers in question have been completed to the best of my ability, and the officer’s spouses have been searched as well, when that information has been provided where available.
This is a purely unscientific and obviously cursory examination. All names were verified twice according to both websites – but to the credit of the webmasters in charge of their respective sites, there was rarely any light whatsoever between the two groupings of results. These results are only as accurate, however, as the information provided by these sites, so caveat emptor. All of this information is readily available and in the public domain, so if you want to do the legwork yourself it’s fairly easy stuff to verify.
DC Comics
(As provided by DCComics.com)
DC, as a fully owned and operated subsidiary of Time/Warner (formerly Time/Warner/AOL). As such, it must be noted that their various executives are merely mid-level bureaucrats within the T/W megastructure and not independent corporate officers, as with Marvel. Assumedly, Paul Levitz is the highest officer within the DC superstructure, and he answers in turn to T/W corporate officers.
Paul Levitz - President & Publisher - $3,500 to the Time/Warner Political Action Committee (PAC) on 3/24/03. T/WPAC seems to target a number of parties on both sides of the isle, mostly incumbents. However, if you step away from the individuals, the PAC seems to have given about $20,000 dollars more to Republican congressional groups than to Democratic:
T/WPAC DONATIONS
DEMOCRATIC CONGRESSIONAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE - $27,500
DEMOCRATIC SENATORIAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE - $7,500
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE - $26,000
NATIONAL REPUBLICAN SENATORIAL COMMITTEE - $27,500
(Spouse Jeanette Levitz - No Contributions Listed)
Georg Brewer - VP-Design & Retail Product Development - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Patrick Caldon - SVP-Finance & Operations - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Chris Caramalis - VP-Finance - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Terri Cunningham - VP-Managing Editor - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Dan Didio - VP-Editorial - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Alison Gill - VP-Manufacturing - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Rich Johnson - VP-Book Trade Sales - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Hank Kanalz - VP-General Manager, Wildstorm - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Lillian Laserson - SVP-General Counsel - Two contributions to John Kerry (made on 5/25/04 and 7/29/04), totaling $750, and one contribution to the DNC for $254. No available name for Spouse.
Jim Lee - Editorial Director-Wildstorm - Too common a name for accurate query. (Spouse Angela [Angie] Lee - No Contributions Listed)
David McKillips - VP-Advertising & Custom Publishing - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
John Nee - VP-Business Development - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Gregory Noveck - SVP-Creative Affairs - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Cheryl Rubin - VP-Brand Management - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
Bob Wayne - VP-Sales & Marketing - No Contributions Listed, No available name for Spouse
DC Miscellaneous
Richard Parsons - Chairman and CEO, Time/Warner - A total of $25,000 to the Republican National Committee, $2,000 to George W. Bush, $2,000 to Arlen Specter, $1,000 to the http://www.fecinfo.com/cgi-win/x_pacpg.exe?DoFn=C0030258804, $10,000 to the aforementioned Time/Warner PAC, and $1,000 to the Magazine Publishers of America PAC.
Brad Meltzer - Mystery novelist, writer of “Identity Crisis” - $2,000 to John Kerry on 7/27/04.
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