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As long as Marvel doesn’t let him draw Captain America again, I’m happy!

This could be the greatest challenge religion has ever faced.

Good luck to Rob.

This looks really good. And Liefeld roughs with other artists doing finishes could work out. Let’s wait and see!

God created Eve from one of Adam’s ribs; when Liefeld re-created Captain America, he gave him a dozen extra ribs.

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If someone says ‘off the record’ you should not quote them, even if you leave off their name. off the record means… off the record, as in NOT TO BE IN THE ARTICLE. Poorly written.

JS: Using the “according to an unnamed source” is way better. This link discusses what off the record is.
The real problem: Henry became part of the story…

http://www.prnewswire.com/blog/what-does-off-the-record-really-mean-7093.html

Wayne thank you for the link, as a person who is often interviewed by Press this is my understanding when I tell them off the record (straight from the article you linked!):

Shirley Skeel, a journalist for more than 20 years who reported finance news for papers such as the Daily Mail and The Telegraph in London, explains how this term was similarly understood by journalists in London. “’Off the record’ meant you could not use the information given to you in print,” she said. “However, it might lead you to other sources or a better understanding.”

Yeah this ‘article’ feels much more like a personal blog post, while the story is interesting it really isnt written as a news blog just a personal story.

The Wasp cosplayer featured in this article is Sara Moni, https://www.facebook.com/SaraMoniCosplay
The Harley Quinn Cosplay featured in this article is Icy, https://www.facebook.com/IcyPrincessCosplay

js ….shaddap

I don’t understand what is the big deal of reprinting art and selling it. I mean we pirate movies and television shows. I say it’s the same thing. Those artist just work for those blood sucking corporations. Forget those losers they already got there stinking money.

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Jerry Marks – so you feel its ok to profit off someone else because you pirate movies and music?
Something you had no involvement in, something that you didn’t create and, if anything, copied if not completely reprinted… just ‘cus they “made their money”? No, they didn’t. If you pirate a movie, you didn’t pay for it which means they didn’t make that money.
SOME “of us” pirate. I also feel this is just a troll comment you make to spark this kind of response.

Maybe the artist in the article painted that piece with his/her own brushes and paints, but it’s clearly Bruce Timm which means, although probably referenced, the “artist” didn’t do anything more than “trace” and color-match the original just to make an easy $200. Although he may or may not “own the original” or a print, that doesn’t give him the right, or a transfer of copyright, without Bruce Timm’s permission.
This “artist” would need a signed document, from Timm, saying he can use the piece as he would like, including selling or reproducing.

But, I’m probably wasting my time ‘cus you feel it’s all fair game.

I am not surprised to read about Luevanos on this article. He was quite a rude person to us at his con when we had a table there last year. He was making excuses to not give contest winners their prize money after winning the kevin eastman art contest. He was absolutely unprofessional and rude to his staff and volunteers right in front us, yelling and cussing them out over something he himself had done. We said we’d never go back to his show…but art thievery did surprise me. And people commenting that its ok to steal someone else’s work to sell it is even worse to me.buying an art piece is just that..buying an art piece. To sell it you must have a signed document where the original artist has signed and agreed that it can be used for reprint and disbursement…if no document is available then it is illegal to sell in any reprinted manor. You can only sell ,if it is the owner of the pieces choice, the original piece bought.

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I must say that I don’t ‘get’ how someone can think it’s okay to reproduce someone else’s art and sell it. Nor can I get how someone can sell prints of their sketches of Batman or other characters at cons. Is there a ‘turn a blind eye’ clause?

Dear Henry,

I just want to make it perfectly clear the MY company (HEROIC FINE ART) was NOT IN ATTENDANCE at this convention. I am the owner and the only one authorized to speak for the company. I think you did a great job at naming the individuals involved in selling this type of unlicensed product. I just want to make sure that everyone knows that I wasn’t in attendance and I don’t even know these people!

I was originally going to try to do this show, but my health (recent knee surgery) prevented me from attending. Apparently these guys took my booth space and didn’t bother to take MY company name down. I have been in business since 1999 and have always taken pride in selling amazing licensed products, as well as working DIRECTLY with amazing artists.

I would like my website name taken off at your convenience, or add a note stating that it was NOT me or my company present, so people don’t associate my reputable business with these jerk-offs.

Thank you for your consideration, and for your work exposing these losers.

Best,
James Fletcher
[email protected]

Kudos to Henry Barajas for writing this. Swipers should be exposed. Piracy is wrong, illegal, and unethical. Additionally, Luevanos sounds uncooperative and unethical as well. I respect other fellow content creators. I’ll proudly put my money into products and providers that I believe in. Thieves and freeloaders ruin the market for everyone. Artists don’t need a corporation to distribute private commissions at cons or wherever. You are taking opportunities directly from these artists when you overpay for pirated work.

ufh come on really? This is just a great expressing the bs that any many if not all creatives get on occasion. To sit there and say anything else is just silly and indicative of folks with a wild hate in their arse

Anyone seeing some kind of sexism in the comic is being a bit too oversensitive. What it means is pretty much just there on the page with an old guy and a young guy expressing frustrations with not being as successful as someone else.

These frustrations are understandable even to the rest of us that just follow the industry. Some people hit that right combination of talent, luck, and current mood of the zeitgeist and get a successful career out of it. Others don’t. That’s just the reality of pretty much every field of entertainment.

Two other cartoons came to mind when I read this (after nodding my head and saying “Seen” a dozen time).

There’s Feiffer’s cartoon of an aging man getting passed by his younger associates in the rat race. The woman whips past him, he can’t help himself, he says, I bet she uses her body to get ahead. The idea that women get a better deal because of their gender creeps in sometimes, but I don’t see it in Sturm’s story. The young winner in question could have been an eighteen year old male, wowing them with skills honed at SAW. Gender is irrelevant to the story.

The other image is a panel from Eddie Campbell’s “How To Be An Artist” — he talks about being bitter watching others succeed before him. He suggests a way to think about it is not You guys won the game, I’m so jealous, but rather, Wait for me and I’ll be with you shortly. In my often bitter and unsuccessful time working on my own comics, this thought has helped me cope.

A controversy out of nothing. How is it the two protagonists worrying about the success of a woman is anything other than a criticism of them?
Why do people immediately think the protagonists are people they as readers are supposed to relate to? That they are supposed to be sympathetic?
It reminds me of someone once telling me they didn’t like MR. ARKADIN because there was no one in the movie they could identify with. Everyone seems like a louse. So?

It’s much more interesting when cartoonists talk about the world around them this way. Instead of always living in this constant fantasy land of crime, alien invasions, noir, wars, space dramas and superhero events. Not that those aren’t valid subject but do they have to be 90-95% of the American comics medium ?! Cartoonists have a lot more freedom than movies or TV to explore these subject matters in a big or small way and not get shut down, The lady complaining about the two white guys probably hasn’t seen that well endowed fantasy writer who makes a habit of showing her wares every 5th tweet or so while jumping at the top of Kick Starter with Millar endorsements and cosplay shots. She may be good but it is what it is. So there’s people like that out there. It doesn’t mean all women creators are like that. Or that men are are all petty or disrespectful about their success, But don’t be so PC that people can’t comment on that in a legitimate way.

Look at what Image is putting out , mostly gruesome murder and horror comics every week. Doesn’t seem to be offend anybody in the comics community and they walk around expecting industry respect. That seems worse to me.

The Nib is very good. A much needed alternative.

I’m name-checked in this particular comic, so I can’t say much, but I’m pretty certain James made the young successful cartoonist a woman just because it says “new generation,” the same way the Kickstarter reference does. As Heidi points out, this whole comic is pure satire. Even the melodramatic set-up is funny because it’s just a couple of cartoonists, not some Vietnam vet addicted to heroine or something. Is that so hard for people to get?

Oh well. In other news, Randy Newman DOES NOT ACTUALLY HATE SHORT PEOPLE.

I read it more as just the person he was fixating upon, not that she was female. Maybe that’s my male-centric glasses on, but I took from it that the writer was giving a name to his experience, and probably really felt this about a female he knew. And he’s not mad at her, he just is having trouble handling it, which I think is pretty relatable. Not because she’s female, but because she’s doing better.

That isn’t to say gender isn’t something to be dealt with carefully, but just that in this case it felt to me like a person writing their personal experience, not picking on women.

Also, I’ll admit that this comic REALLY got to me. I’ve been going through a LOT of this lately, and it’s a dark road but unfortunately an easy one to walk down.

Thanks for taking a mature level view of the strip and its spot-on satirical take on such a common human inner conflict. Extra thanks for explaining the “controversy” without exploiting a wild hare for clicks in the title or article. Sorry, Ms. Frakes, you probably should have thought about that tweet a little more when you felt your knee jerking.

I thought Sturm nailed the 12-step call-your-sponsor-in-time-of-crisis framework. (Including the risk of passing along cravings, er, urges toward wallowing in unhelpful comparisons.)
ONE PANEL AT A TIME, PEOPLE; one panel at a time.
Good overview.

Thank you Heidi.

I liked this article way more than I liked that Twitter-fueled debate, which I found very, very off-point from the cartoonist’s (very clear, at least to me) original intent.

Are we the first generation that doesn’t get past the surface meaning of things? These are two clownish old men getting mad at a Kickstarter. Has professional jealousy been that elusive an emotion amongst the people annoyed at this?

This comic is the best of 2014. Everyone sees themselves in it and are interpreting it through the lens of their super-ego. It’s great. That’s what art should do.

That having been said: There is an aspect of the culture wars going on in the comic, intended or not. Women are moving in and they are destroying the Boy’s Club. (Good fucking riddance to it.) To say that it’s not there in the comic is dishonest. The comic is obviously reflecting the subculture around the medium. If it looks like that culture is built out of a pile of neuroses and self-serving actions, that’s because it is… and the responses so far seem to bear that out.

(Speaking as someone who has also felt the glorious touch of Scott’s recommendation and then proceeded to tear himself apart with self-doubt, self-pity, and pettiness to the point that he stopped making comics, I feel for the guy. But you know how it is: Do it or get out of the way so someone else can. )

Mind you, the comic does fail to comment on how small and incestuous the community is. Tessa is probably sitting in Ron’s den and doodling on his CINTIQ while he’s talking to Alan…

Many thanks for the links to resource. Don’t care where you are professionally they’re always worth the read – and THE BEAT tends to have the best. Here’s some more for those interested. http://www.jimkeefe.com/archives/5749

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Fingers crossed. I think of Ellis as mainly a fairly grim writer but with this and Project Superpowers, maybe he’s looking into a different approach after all?

This cover illustration is gorgeous.

Interesting news. These new comics based on Liefeld properties have either been wonderfully unorthodox (Prophet and Glory) or rote (Bloodstrike, Youngblood). I thought for sure that the new Supreme comic would be in the latter category after seeing the initial cryptic promo.

Fortunately, I was wrong. The artwork looks incredible and Ellis is precisely the kind of ambitious writer that a comic like this needs. I look forward to checking it out.

For Supreme, rote would be fine if it were emulating Moore rather than Liefeld.