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I was checking the "links" section of my website, just to make sure everything was still working as I hadn't actually clicked on anything there for a while, and I found myself on the PVP website.
"A while" was obviously "a few years". I barely recognised the strip!
Anyway; I'm not writing this to bitch about hating change (I'll save that and put it into Sequential Art), I'm writing this to relay a very good point the good Mr Kurtz made in the PVP blog:
"Everyone is kind of freaking out right now because of the Gary Friedrich case. Long story short, the guy who created Ghost Rider in 1972 sued Marvel, claiming that they never filed a copyright for his work and therefore he still owns Ghost Rider. Courts said "sit down before you fall down" and in addition slapped the guy with a $17,000 fine for selling tee shirts and posters featuring Mike Ploog Ghost Rider art at conventions.
People are considering this a warning salvo at artists who do sketches of Marvel and DC owned characters at conventions. Now everyone who's ever drawn Batman spanking Catwoman at a con for $75 bucks is shitting their pants, and it's gone as far as people calling the Marvel "sketch cover" comics a form of entrapment.
Here's an idea I'm just going to throw out there, considering it's 2012. If you can draw and you have the equivalent brainpower of a creative six year old, try making up your own characters. Then draw them doing interesting things. Post those stories online, develop an audience and charge $75 to sketch your own characters at cons.
It's sad that Gary Friedrich did not create Ghost Rider in more creator friendly times, but we don't share that same fate.
Stop bitching, grab some pencil and paper and come up with your own god-damn characters. It's not hard. I've made a living drawing a farting troll for 14 years. All without any real grasp of anatomy or storytelling. Jeff Smith I ain't. If I can do it….
Food for thought."
I've always told people to work on their own characters, to promote their own stories and not to waste their time and talent on free advertising for the "company" creations of Marvel and DC for this precise reason: unless you work for one of those big names, you'll never turn a profit from it nor will you get yourself an audience.
You wanna draw superheroes? Think up your own. It's far more fulfilling than being a photocopier.
That said; the "Catwoman being spanked" idea could be quite fun to put down on paper.
I'm reading "The Long Halloween", too.
Mmmmmm.......purple.
"A while" was obviously "a few years". I barely recognised the strip!
Anyway; I'm not writing this to bitch about hating change (I'll save that and put it into Sequential Art), I'm writing this to relay a very good point the good Mr Kurtz made in the PVP blog:
"Everyone is kind of freaking out right now because of the Gary Friedrich case. Long story short, the guy who created Ghost Rider in 1972 sued Marvel, claiming that they never filed a copyright for his work and therefore he still owns Ghost Rider. Courts said "sit down before you fall down" and in addition slapped the guy with a $17,000 fine for selling tee shirts and posters featuring Mike Ploog Ghost Rider art at conventions.
People are considering this a warning salvo at artists who do sketches of Marvel and DC owned characters at conventions. Now everyone who's ever drawn Batman spanking Catwoman at a con for $75 bucks is shitting their pants, and it's gone as far as people calling the Marvel "sketch cover" comics a form of entrapment.
Here's an idea I'm just going to throw out there, considering it's 2012. If you can draw and you have the equivalent brainpower of a creative six year old, try making up your own characters. Then draw them doing interesting things. Post those stories online, develop an audience and charge $75 to sketch your own characters at cons.
It's sad that Gary Friedrich did not create Ghost Rider in more creator friendly times, but we don't share that same fate.
Stop bitching, grab some pencil and paper and come up with your own god-damn characters. It's not hard. I've made a living drawing a farting troll for 14 years. All without any real grasp of anatomy or storytelling. Jeff Smith I ain't. If I can do it….
Food for thought."
I've always told people to work on their own characters, to promote their own stories and not to waste their time and talent on free advertising for the "company" creations of Marvel and DC for this precise reason: unless you work for one of those big names, you'll never turn a profit from it nor will you get yourself an audience.
You wanna draw superheroes? Think up your own. It's far more fulfilling than being a photocopier.
That said; the "Catwoman being spanked" idea could be quite fun to put down on paper.
I'm reading "The Long Halloween", too.
Mmmmmm.......purple.
Thank you, anonymous benefactor.
Some kind (unnamed) soul gave me a month's core membership. Thank you, sir/madam :)
DevArt goes full evil.
I’m not going to rail about how material on the site is being scraped for use in AI Composites, or about how DevArt’s “protection” against it is a new check-box that you will have to manually tick for each and every image you’ve uploaded. No. Misuse of your work and DevArt incompetence are expected at this point. Once something is put online, that’s it; it’s no longer under your control. That’s the nature of the beast. You don’t like it; don’t upload content. What I am furious about is the deluge of AI composites flooding my feed, here. I see more of that crap than genuine new content, now. And to make it worse, DevArt has its own AI tool (https://www.deviantart.com/team/journal/Create-AI-Generated-Art-Fairly-with-DreamUp-933537821) which, while they absolutely-pinky-promise it will not cannibalise user content, is only going to exacerbate the problem. I’m now completely convinced that DevArt is no longer a site that serves artists in any capacity. Not only that; it no longer has any
Werewolf Wednesday Artbook
I've returned to Lulu as their print quality has dramatically improved. The first thing I'm peddling through their service is a collection of my Werewolf Wednesday pinups. (I was legitimately blown away by the quality of the proof copy I ordered!) It's now available here.
Password Retrieval emails.
Is anyone else getting a "Password Retrieval" email from DeviantArt over and over again? I was concerned that there was a security issue at play but I see that there's an option in settings to STOP such emails for 60 days, which itself is weird. Why would THAT be needed? What the hell is going on with the platform NOW?
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While I'm all for creating your own characters and I'm definitely against stealing someone's work and claiming it as your own/selling it for personal profit (aka pirating), Wouldn't fair-use laws protect you to some extent? I mean, of course, give credit to the owner of the character, but because you're drawing the character and, presumably, putting your own twist on it, doesn't it become a transformative work?