Stone’s FundMyComic.com adheres to three core tenets: creative freedom, fierce independence and trust. The site empowers creators and allows them to thrive without chronic censorship. Stone offers some guardrails along the way.

“I don’t say that we don’t gate keep. It’s my yard. I’ve got house rules,” he says. “We don’t use abusive language [or] partial nudity.”

That means a title like “Ma’am I Am,” a satirical swipe at modern gender mores styled after a Dr. Seuss book, can be found on his platform.

“That would have gotten banned everywhere else,” he says, adding the majority of titles and board games aren’t ideological in nature.

[It’s a sign of the times when the comic-book establishment has become yet another arm of The Man. — Ed]