Over in Rich Johnston's Lying in the Gutters forum, a poster has pointed out a HORRIBLY OBVIOUS photo-reference swipe job. This is the sort of thing that Marvel sent out a memo to all artists telling them not to do, in order to cover their asses legally.
I'm not running the pictures here because the poster was bringing it to Rich's attention and his column doesn't run until Mondays. He should be the first place with the image.
Update: A Newsarama poster named MartianChild has given more examples of Mack's history of swipes (dating back to before his Marvel time):
I am a fan of David Mack's work, and I find him to be a very talented writer and illustrator. But as a longtime follower of his career, over the years I have noticed literally countless times that he has swiped, or copied, or traced, or "paid homage to" other very recognizable sources, without even attempting to disquise the fact that he was swiping, or copying, or tracing or "paying homage". I direct your attention to the following examples :
This Kabuki illustration ...
... was taken from an advertisement for a bridal boutique :
This Danger Girl illustration ...
was taken from a fashion magazine editorial featuring model Frankie Rayder :
This Daredevil sketch ...
was taken from, of all places, an advertisement for Durex Condoms :
And that's just 3 samples. There are many, many, many other examples. Much of his work seems to be directly based on (or traced from) some kind of photographic reference.
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FYI: So Rich published these and what I assume to be the other one today.
ReplyDeleteWell, there's nothing wrong with that. The only reason I ran with these was because they weren't posted specifically in Rich's folder.
ReplyDeleteI'm just glad he posted the link to the Hart blog. I hope some of the people that are calling Hart scum can read that and realize he's not.