artistic license

After the article came out, were you concerned that other comics might pull back on artistic license in their work to avoid the same kind of scrutiny?

Mackie went on to chat with The Envelope, in eloquent detail, about the show’s elliptical addressing of the queen’s death, its occasional use of artistic license and the series’ trajectory from its first to last seasons.

The show is based on this real-life story, but I think it’s made so much better by the fact that there is artistic license, which I’ve always been really comfortable with.

“That was a real touchstone for me,” he says, adding that they did take artistic license with Stanton’s approach to facial hair, which in reality was “very whiskery.”

Simms is one of the characters with whom Beletsky took artistic license — some of her testimony was given by other former slaves since she was gone from Mudd’s home by 1865.