If you haven't heard it before now.... I was on my usual rounds of webcomic-checking, when I found out about a rather big artist blatantly ripping off the panel of a webcomic artist from five years ago.
Details and links to further details can be found on the post here- http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=2416213
Now, I have to say, I normally hate art theft. But when that theft then makes tons of money off it (Paintings selling at up to ten thousand dollars...)
This guy is someone who makes shirts for hot topic, and apparently has stolen many times before.
Anyway, I felt it my duty as a fellow artist and art theft hater to spread the word.
Garuda- 04-12-2007
I think I'm gonna pirate some White Stripes in pro-*test*-('"). Take that, Todd Goldman.
didthatjusthappen- 04-12-2007
Oooo...I...
*shiver*
*flinch*
*300 the nearest victim*
You have no idea how much I hate art theives. I only draw squiggles, I mean, come on, seriously. They're loops of black ink. I do not have a deviant art because I am a victim of people stealing my black loops. A lot. And then using them for their own benefit. A lot.
This guy really ticks me off. :evil: If a person doesnt have enough talent to create art, then (excuse me) dammit, take some classes.
Zigren- 04-12-2007
Hm. I think I can say without much remorse that that guy needs to get slapped across the brain. With a white-hot horseshoe.
Spiritwolf- 04-12-2007
then he needs his hands dipped in a slow burning acid. he should learn to make his own stuff, not rip off other people, that is just so wrong on so many levels! :evil:
AuroraDragonKaya- 04-12-2007
The thing that really irritates me is he's a highly succesful multimillionare, and most his crap is poorly drawn rip offs of other artists' work. >.>;;
Shard- 04-12-2008
Just keeping the reminder fresh in everyone's mind how such people should be punished. Especially people already possessed of more money than they know what to do with. Sadly, it's most often those we find doing this, which is what makes it all the more senseless.....pointless, really. I've got shitloads of money, and I've no idea what to do. I have everything, yet I'm bored. Ah, well, I guess I don't have enough money, because I'm not happy yet. Better go steal something from someone poor and make millions more off of it, so I have yet more money to do nothing with, or stupid shit with, and they still are poor.
People like that should be flayed alive with a rusty shrimp fork, then be dipped in salt mixed with iodine, dropped on a few forge fires, and then drawn and quintered. No, that's not a typo. You know what I mean, and you know exactly what that fifth horse would be tied to.
P.S. It's not his head. Well, not the one on his shoulders, anyway.
Darmicon- 04-19-2008
Just another reminder of how fucked up our judicial system is; Where the ones with the money make the rules.
(In case you haven't heard, Goldman basically sicked the lawyers on everybody until they gave in. It was a shameful act, and Goldman should die in molten pee.)
Garuda- 04-28-2008
Pee turns molten at ~270 °K
Darmicon- 07-26-2008
Damn, there went my fantasy of achieving advanced siege warfare through urination. Must you strip me of my dreams?
Shard- 08-13-2008
Now the question is, at what non-lethal temperature does spit turn solid upon leaving the mouth?
Oh, and artist thief should still have the surface of the sun crammed into his eyes.
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