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by: 79soul » Blog Archive » Blatant Assholery (if you can’t stand the heat…)

Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:59:57 +0000

[…] Of course, if the allegations are true, Goldman would hardly be the first artist to blatantly rip off…erm… be accused of ripping off another artist or stealing work from other sources. […]

by: T-Bone

Fri, 05 Jan 2007 03:02:05 +0000

Yes, art IS art–but whose art?
Swiping–It’s an position that can’t be justified.

by: GaryGnu

Fri, 29 Dec 2006 19:17:45 +0000

Dude. TCJ might have it s problems but its a good baord and a good mag. Just so I’m straight here -in one breath your saying to keep it clean while your bashing Land, Suydam, the dude’s wife and TCJ. We all know all about it and its stupid. But who gives a tweep? What I see is a bunch of socks making a mob scene about something that every artist on the planet does. But what I’m trying to figure out is does it mean I suck because I like the art? Greg Land could swipe my sister’s fingerpaintings and Suydam could swipe a pic of my aunt ginny’s station wagon and I don’t care. Frazetta swiped from everbody and his stuff is beautiful. Art’s art no matter where it came from. Don’t be a hater.

by: T-Bone

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:54:50 +0000

I dont’ think Mrs. Suydam realizes how the Comics Journal is perceived. If she did, she would not be posting this quote.

by: T-Bone

Tue, 21 Nov 2006 23:52:44 +0000

Huh, what does that have to do with anything. The swipes are obvious.

It’s been established on the other sites that “DungeonPenguin” is Arthur Suydam’s wife, who is apparently culling the parts here that may be construed as advantages to their agenda. Go read the whole thing in context. As far as I can see, someone in the Suydam camp is trying to cover up the swiping with alot of drama, which as Heidi said, we can’t go into here.

But, really, all you have to do is look at Suydam’s work to see the obvious swipes. Regardless of who is bringing the theft to light, we should thank them, because it is the art and comics community that is being cheated by this plagarism.

Shame on Suydam, Land and the rest. People would kill to have the talent that you have and you are squandering it.

by: dungeonpenguin

Mon, 06 Nov 2006 02:42:24 +0000

FYI: A couple of posts from Dirk Deppey, site administrator for TCJ:

from http://www.tcj.com/messboard/viewtopic.php?t=290&start=80

“Having done a little research, I do believe that with the exception of this “TheTruthIsOutThere” guy, pretty much every new user who showed up to spam our message-board with this nonsense is using multiple accounts from the same IP addresses, in many cases holding fake conversations with themselves under differing pseudonyms to gin up the controversy.

I hereby declare this subject over and done with. From this point forward, anyone continuing to carry out this bad relationship breakup on this board risks getting thrown off. And this thread is now closed.”
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Online Editor, The Comics Journal

…and…

from http://www.tcj.com/messboard/viewtopic.php?t=290&view=next&sid=f93b8e33de505a4167d27daa7dbba5e6

“Actually, you know what’s really embarrassing? A single user using sock puppets to carry on an inane vendetta across multiple threads. Take, for example, toddpool, who’s posting from the same IP address as Ed Dearborn to do some idiot publicist’s work for her* — and both of whose accounts have just been taken offline.

* I was willing to accept arguments to the contrary right up to the first time this Renee person sent me a couple of unconvincing Arthur Suydam plagiarist links… “off the record,” of course. Now I just wonder why someone willing to do these sorts of things to an ex-client expects to get work as a publicist.”
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Online Editor, The Comics Journal

by: T-Bone

Mon, 30 Oct 2006 16:29:41 +0000

Gargantuan difference between looking at something for postioning and painting over it digitally without changing essentials. That would be using something as a “Major component” of a piece. Conclusively. I don’t see how someone could be looking at a “Pirates” poster either and not see the big movie title at the top? Bogus. Or not see Frazetta’s signature on the painting they are using? Or not know that a photo is copyrighted to a photographer? I would not think it would be that hard to come up with original ideas or shoot your own models like Ross does? Is it? Why create the controversy for yourself in the first place.

by: Comics Should Be Good! » What will I do without them to tease?

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:27:13 +0000

[…] Heidi at The Beat had a good bit the other day about artwork that artists just copy from photographs and other sources. The key to the piece, though, was the letter she reprinted (courtesy of TCJ’s message board) from Marvel’s managing editor to freelancers: MARVEL ORIGINAL ARTWORK POLICY […]

by: Marionette

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 03:18:05 +0000

So what about images that Marvel own? It’s been shown that Greg Land has in some cases apparently copy and pasted images from other comics. Will he now have to check before he rips off his fellow artists? If I were his editor I’d think twice before giving him any kind of blanket permission now that his main source of swipes (porn mags) has been cut off.

by: Jeff

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:43:10 +0000

I don’t mean to split hairs, but when Alex Ross and Tony Harris work from photo reference they’ve created, that’s not swiping–even if they were lightboxing or photoshopping it. Coming after the phrase “everybody swipes something,” it sounds as if that’s what you’re saying and I’m pretty sure that’s not what you mean.

Swiping is using *someone else’s* visual material as the major component of your own–no matter how you do it–and using your own work that you own–again, no matter how you do it–is not.