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Went to a con in Cleveland and saw something sketchy at the indie tables
Some guy was selling traced art from popular webcomics as his own originals, even had a stack of prints with the signatures cut off. The artist he ripped off was sitting two tables away. Has anyone else caught people doing this at smaller shows?
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mary_foster9219d ago
Cleveland con drama, the tracings probably came with free secondhand embarrassment.
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grace_gonzalez4619d ago
Honestly the secondhand embarrassment from stuff like this is real. My cousin went to a con last year and tried to sell her "original" anime style art and someone recognized it from a Pinterest board she'd traced. The drama lasted like three days on the local cosplay group page. Ngl I felt bad for her but also... don't trace someone else's work and try to pass it off as yours at a public event. The whole thing just makes me cringe thinking about how awkward that must have been for everyone involved.
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