Ack! Enough with the comic-idea stealing already!

[digitel_anime_fan_20]

I dunno if it's just me, but stealing comic ideas seems to becomming more and more commen. A week or two ago I remember there a post about a comic or two stolen from garfield, and now this...

Yes another Calvin and Hobbes take-off.

http://neopets.com/ntimes/index.phtml?s ... &issue=185

Gah...just gah. >_<

If sombody could post a link to the orignal, we could send in a report to TNT.

[AFI_Sorrow]

Ugh, another comic rip-off. I caught a Garfield rip off a few years ago and it really bothered me. It was so obvious too, the petpet was a really fat cat who sat on a ledge and make a saracastic comment to his owner...and it was the exact same joke of a Garfield comic that was out only a few weeks ago in the paper...Grrr....

I wish I could find the link for the original Calvin and Hobbes comic. But I've only read C&H a few times, so I don't reckonize it.

[Trick]

I recognise that yeah, it's practically word for word

I don't know where to find the original online though :/

[Chao]

That frustrates me to no end, as I am a huge C & H's fan.
I own a couple of their comic books, including one where each strip has it's original black-and-white newspaper version, and its colored in one, with author comments.
Seeing such knockoffs is saddening because those comics are true classics.

[AFI_Sorrow]

I found the date for the comic and a site with the dialouge and everything, but not the actual comic itself. Still hunting though...
Supposibly it was from 3/27/1986, 3/28/1986, 3/29/1986...one of those three. *perhaps*

[Trick]

There it is from my own collection I can keep it up until or if someone finds another elsewhere on line.

But yes, a blatant rip-off, especially in the last frame there :/

[AFI_Sorrow]

Aha, great job Trick! I haven't been able to find it online, it doesn't seem that there are any online archives.

[Erin]

Good job, Trick.

Aww... I love that comic. *digs out all her Calvin and Hobbes collection books and sits in the corner getting nostalgic*

[Trick]

Heehee, no probs =) I'm a total Calvin & Hobbes geek so I have all of them on my pc...takes a long time to find one amongst that many though! *phew*

If you were going to rip off a comic though, why on earth would you choose something that so many people would be able to spot? It makes no sense :/ I hope TNT spot it though, trying to rip off Calvin & Hobbes is not on.

[digitel_anime_fan_20]

I sent in a report to TNT-along with the origanal comic. (thanks Trick)

Hopefully they'll take take care of this soon. *glares at the comic*


It sometimes suprises me how well I remember those comics-I havn't read that particular one in at least a year, yet it stuck with me well enough to notice it.

If you were going to rip off a comic though, why on earth would you choose something that so many people would be able to spot? It makes no sense :/

Actually, it kinda does. If a particular comic strip is well known, that means its funny, if it's funny, its more likely to be excepted. If you use a lesser known strip, it probably won't be very good, and won't be let in the NT. Allbeit, you get spotted almost immediatly by fans of that particular strip, so in the long run it does makes absolutly no sense....

[Marinnai Kasaraki]

I sent in a report to TNT-along with the origanal comic. (thanks Trick)

Hopefully they'll take take care of this soon. *glares at the comic*


It sometimes suprises me how well I remember those comics-I havn't read that particular one in at least a year, yet it stuck with me well enough to notice it.

If you were going to rip off a comic though, why on earth would you choose something that so many people would be able to spot? It makes no sense :/

Actually, it kinda does. If a particular comic strip is well known, that means its funny, if it's funny, its more likely to be excepted. If you use a lesser known strip, it probably won't be very good, and won't be let in the NT. Allbeit, you get spotted almost immediatly by fans of that particular strip, so in the long run it does makes absolutly no sense....

Coming from personal experience in dealing with thieves, unless it has a massive copyright symbol or an invisible watermark on the image, then they think they're invincible.

Dealing with comic/artwork thieves is a norm for me, considering the number of galleries I keep online. But it is strange how they THINK they'll get away with things, but chances are, someone has been online long enough to know where it's come from. The trouble is, dealing with the blatant stupidity of the "artist" that follows. Some feverently claim they didn't know (sizing up their age against the age of the publication usually blows them right out of the water), others claim they found it with no signature so it's rightfully free game (henceforth, most of my artist friends put invisible watermarks on their work)...and the real stupid ones flame you for exposing them. They're fun to deal with, because their 'reasons' will have you on the floor laughing and wondering how such blatant stupidity escaped Natural Selection.

It happens all the time unfortunately, I guess until stricter rules come through, the best comic/other artists can do is slap an invisible watermark on the image and pray.

It's human nature to steal, unfortunately. The majority of us can resist the urge, but a number of the population cannot.

[o_0]

I have gotten over 50 of those neomails and it's getting on my nerves. A friend told me about this I had no idea.

Do I believe that in a second? No. o.o

Well, he *could* be telling the truth.

But, meh. In order to get the poses correct, he might have needed to see the comic itself.

[plushie]

I have gotten over 50 of those neomails and it's getting on my nerves. A friend told me about this I had no idea.

Do I believe that in a second? No. o.o

Well, he *could* be telling the truth.

But, meh. In order to get the poses correct, he might have needed to see the comic itself.

lol, thats the SAME excuse the garfield copier used but it was their brother!

[Anoohilator]

I have gotten over 50 of those neomails and it's getting on my nerves. A friend told me about this I had no idea.

Do I believe that in a second? No. o.o

Well, he *could* be telling the truth.

But, meh. In order to get the poses correct, he might have needed to see the comic itself.

lol, thats the SAME excuse the garfield copier used but it was their brother!

Well I appreciate that snowflake gets loads and loads of comics and it is hard to monitor each one but it was partly (not a lot but still a bit) her fault...

I still totally agree that it was mostly the Comic Stealers fault

[TDG]

I got that exact same reply o_0. Did I believe it ?? No