Post #803901 by ernimator on Mon, Jun 6, 2022 3:32 AM

Not mad at you Swiz. I know a lot of creative people come up with the same idea around the same time, or they come up with an idea that someone else has already done but they didn't know about it. Or sometimes they forget about an idea somebody has done already and later the idea pops into their head not realizing where they had seen or heard it before and they think it's their own original idea.

When I put on the first Tiki Bob art show I had drawn a Suffering Bob, and a Moai Bob, but I ran out of time before the show to make them. Later on I think it was MP did a Suffering Bob before I ever got to mine, and I think Eric October did a Moai Bob so I had to abandon my idea for those. But they came up with the ideas separate from me, and they probably did a better job than I would have.

I don't remember Wendy ever asking me for permission to do my Cutesy Bob. I would have said no because it devalues the one that I made and sold to somebody else. He had gotten a one of a kind original, but now there are two. If Wendy's had been a different color or done something to it to make it different from mine, it wouldn't have been so bad, but not a direct copy. But the damage is done, and I love Wendy.

Now that I think about it, I think YOU had sent me a link to one of the Going Primitive mugs somebody had made, but I'd seen a few. It's not so bad if somebody made one just for themselves. But, it sucks when they copy them and sell them and the original artist doesn't get any money for his original design. That's what pisses off SQUID about these Chinese mug makers that do knock offs of his stuff and sell it.

I remember seeing a Tonga Hut sign somebody was selling that had Kirby's design that I had inked for him. I doubt they had gotten permission from Kirby or Tonga Hut to use that art (but I could be wrong), but somebody was making money off of someone else's art without compensating the original artist.