Towards the holidays, some people are itching for an argument. I can’t change minds, only my own, and I’m okay with that.

Just find someone who disagrees with you and it becomes a civil war. I don’t hold many positions that I want to waste time arguing back and forth on the internet over. Roy Lichtenstein is dead. I’ve come not to praise him but to bury him.

That I’ve posted several of Dan Mora’s homage covers on the same day isn’t a coincidence. He altered the original to come up with his own. Andy Warhol changed nothing about the Campbell’s soup can and made it a study. The second someone reproduces the original to pass off as their own is plagiarism.

It was starting to give me feelings of Twitter in the last days before I left. Discussion is great. Putting me on blast for disagreeing isn’t so great.

I’m sometimes petty. I’d go to a Kinkos (I know it’s not in business any more but a place like it) and have the original piece blown up to poster size and put it up in my office as “Original: Not plagiarized by Lichtenstein.”

Thanks. Even had an actual comic artist try to gloss over his plagiarism and a few other artists liked their repost. Since 90% of creators don’t follow back, I blocked that person. Nothing of value has been missed. I do the same for those supporting AI comic art. Homages are fine but theft is not.

We don’t get enough room. Stop trolling or you’ll get banned from my page.

It’s in the Alt Text:
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Why do I fucking bother!?
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Our Fighting Forces 71, 1962, plagarized artwork by Roy Lichtenstein
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Release: Oct 1962
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Creators
Writer Robert Kanigher
Cover Artist Jerry Grandenetti
Penciller Jerry Grandenetti

Happy Birthday!🎊🎂🎈