@Background Pony #1400:  

That’s actually a fallacy. The show staff has only said the comics would “remain separate” from the show itself. They never said that the comics were “non-canon.” In fact, I’d argue that what’s said at the bottom of the image here:
 

 
implies that the show staff does indeed consider the comics to be canon.
 
And just for good measure, here’s a picture that has Jim Miller pretty much saying something to the effect of “anyone who even says that I’ve been saying the comics are non-canon is doing nothing but putting words in my mouth.”
 

@Demorgorgon  
Politics.

Why does mayor mare get a top seat over the elements of harmony?

I didn’t know her professional wrestling twin Cherry Blossom was visiting.

Canon is what happens in a body of work, not “within the universe”; you have concocted a nonsensical misapplication of a word that was doing just fine with what it actually meant long before you decided you hated the IDW comics and wanted some childish way to pretend that they “don’t count”. Not that it isn’t amusing to watch you open your mouth and remove all doubt, as the saying goes, but you don’t appear to have realized that by incorrectly invoking the word canon in the specific context of comic books, you have ignorantly dismissed the very concept of alternate continuities/realities/universes/timelines, upon which a significant portion of mainstream comic books have been based for the last several decades. Batman is Bruce Wayne. Batman is also Thomas Wayne. Also Tim Drake, and Dick Grayson, and Jean-Paul Valley, and Terry McGinniss, and Jim Gordon, and Jason Todd. All of these characters are, canonically, Batman. Just because they were Batman in a different continuity or timeline or parallel Earth, or temporarily in the past or future of the current DC timeline, does not make them “non-canon”, or make them not have happened. All of them are canon, even if some of them exist as Batman only in self-contained realities that don’t interact with other realities of the DC meta-verse.
 
Again, you and everyone else who blathers about a concept you clearly do not understand when you try to portray the comics as not being part of MLP canon could not possibly be more transparent in your motivation; you have decided– for whatever reason– that you dislike the comics, and instead of taking the patently obvious adult route of simply ignoring them in whole or in part as taking place in an irrelevant alternate universe, you childishly insist on trying to make them not count and not be real, because it’s not enough for you to just dislike a thing, you have to give yourself some petty little TRUE FAN™ way to dismiss anyone who does as not liking real FIM, no matter how ridiculous a rationalization you have to concoct after the fact to do so.

@Ridley Wolf  
Yes. Comic staff claims their canon until they contradict the show (as in individual stories), show staff says flat out non-canon.

@Ridley Wolf  
A few.
 
I suggest just making your own decisions on that.

On the topic, has there ever been a real confirmation of the canonicity or non-canonicity of the comics?

@TexasUberAlles  
Sounds like you don’t. Just because something is official doesn’t make it canon. Canon refers to what happens within the universe of a work of fiction. By saying the comics are an alternate universe (like the people who make the damn show say), that’s saying they’re non-canon to the show. They’re canon to themselves, but who gives a fuck? They’re terribly written dreck. The editor stated on twitter he doesn’t give a fuck about the writing in them.

@Background Pony #796D  
At this point a hardon for hissy fits is the only plausible reason why people who dislike the comics don’t just declare them a dumb alternate universe they don’t care about and move the hell on. The comics are clearly set in an alternate Equestrian continuity, so it doesn’t even matter what relation they have to the show aside from giving some people an excuse to try to de-legitimize them instead of just ignoring them.

@TexasUberAlles  
Cue “comics aren’t canon and IDW sucks!” hissy fit in t-minus 5…4…

@Background Pony #2C59  
Sorry you don’t know what the word “canon” means, dude.

Haven’t we learned anything from the Season 2 finale? All crowd clones are obviously Changeling scouts.

@Background Pony #2C59  
Gonna need popcorn

@Calonsus  
Except that’s non canon. And retarded.

@Calonsus  
HUH…

well…