In keeping with Dave Sim's suggestion I'm transferring a question he missed getting to on CBR to Jinxworld, for his due consideration. So some of it picks up from stuff he said there (not to mention my making a reference to my blog-link, which doesn't seem possible to do here).
OK, next questions:
A minor one first: in an earlier post that I'm too lazy to look up, I got the impression that you were saying Scott McCloud's UNDERSTANDING COMICS was a little more skewed to favor cartoony rather than representational comics. It's been a while since I read it, but I thought he bent over backwards to give every drawing-style its due. Was my impression of your statement incorrect?
Next-- we've talked a number of times on this thread about the possible legal ramifications of "duping" fashion-model photos, and I think you've more or less said that you're willing to take your chances (unless that was from a thread on some other board).
But what does it mean to you, aesthetically, to adapt something from someone else's repertoire, be it a fashion-photo or a comic book? I'm obviously not talking about aping something for the express purpose of satirizing a well-known original, a la "Wolveroach," but adapting an image from somewhere else for your work, whether that image is well-known or not.
Let me hasten to say that I'm not accusing you of "swiping" in the regular sense. In a long-ago letter to you (click my blog below if you don't know the "secret identity" behind the gothic username), I commented that you were sort of the comics equivalent of a natural mimic like Eddie Murphy, which is in itself a talent that deserves to be exercised.
That said, how do you adapt without simply swiping, at least according to your own personal aesthetics?
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Wow. I just missed this entire thread by like 1 minute.
Well, if Dave is still reading I just want to say thanks for being a genius, thanks for doing all this ridiculous promotion for a book I'll be for-sure buying, and thanks for doing a kickass Cerebus sketch for me back in Chicago five or six years ago when you visited Graham Cracker Comics after they won a diorama contest. And if you and Gerhardt are still chummy, thank him for showing me his driver's license so I could see his real name. I promise, I'll never tell what it is (mostly because I've forgotten.)
Hi, Mike. I sure don't feel like a genius but you're welcome for making you think that I am, thanks for deciding to buy glamourpuss, you're welcome for the Cerebus sketch -- GRAHAM CRACKER COMICS is a great store!-- Haven't heard from Gerhard, but I'm sure you're welcome for him showing you his driver's license and thank you for forgetting his last name.
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Re: glamourpuss Dave Sim
Hey, Dave. Dunno if you're still about. All I really want to say is this: I got a fantastic Cerebus sketch from you a LONG TIME AGO in Edinburgh, Scotland and to this day it's one of my most treasured possessions. You were ... very different back then. I have a lot of great memories of that night.
I showed a friend of mine who works in fashion illustration some of the promo work for glamourpuss and she said she thinks it may well be too close to the bone for her to enjoy. Bravo!
Woah. Am I the only one kinda creeped out by all the people who's only posts (or most of their posts) are specifically in this thread?
There was like, a whole page or 2 of people that seemed to know Dave Sim from somewhere else who seemed to join the board only to talk to him or help him talk to us or something.
I feel uncomfortable...
I didn't know that was the case. I think maybe they might want to be trying to avoid just reading the same basic information like (ahem)...
With three days left in the glamourpuss No.1 promotion campaign, there's still time for you to go into your local comic store and ask to see their COMICS INDUSTRY PREVIEW EDITION before you have to make up your mind. The stores will be placing their final orders at the end of this month. Don't miss out!
Actually I think a lot of the people posting are people I've met somewhere else over the years who are freaked out that someone who doesn't have Internet access is on the Internet for an entire month.
Which is a good excuse to plug LOOKIN FOR HEROES here at 93 Ontario Street South in Kitchener and to thank them for letting me use the laptop computer in the office for this month-long campaign.
Eww, I hope I don't give off creepy old lady vibe.
Don't worry it goes away after a bit. Well, except for Rick. He just hangs around like a fungus.
I'd say TIP would vouch for us, but then he'd want some of my Cerebus goodies, and uh-huh, that ain't going to happen.
;P
It's an interesting concept, anyway: Dave Sim trying to promote his new book and the only people interested in listening are the people who are going to buy it anyway.
Reminds me of the story of the advertising firm that had had the MacDonald's account for years and years and MacDonald's decided they were getting a bit stale and it was time to find a new agency to handle their account. So the agency who lost the account basically lays off two whole floors full of people who did nothing but handle MacDonald's. MacDonald's finds the new firm they're going to go with and the new agency needs to "ramp up" to handle the volume -- they put the word out that they're looking for people with MacDonald's experience and, you guessed it, ending up hiring the two floors full of people the other agency had laid off.
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