A Cartoon In Which I Accidentally Rip Off Steve Tillotson
An annoying thing happened with this month's Prospect comic. Once my little story of a tragic pink jelly-like character called Mr Wubbles had been published in the magazine, I realised I'd accidentally ripped off the fab Steve Tillotson of Banal Pig comics - he already has a tragic pink jelly-like character called, erm, Mr Wobbles. This does occasionally happen, and it's very annoying. What's more, there was a Tom Gauld cartoon which featured a 'Mr Wobbly' too. Sorry guys, honest mistake.
It's genuinely a bit depressing when things like this happen. You think you've come up with a joke or a character, but it turns out it's somebody else's idea that's gone into your brain and you've convinced yourself that you've thought of it. And then everybody thinks you're a big copying bastard.
Anyway, I've apologised to Steve, who was very gracious about it, and urge you to visit his site and buy his stuff, cos he's one of the funniest cartoonists out there.
Monday, October 31, 2011
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2 comments:
The same has happened to me. I studied Kevin (KAL) Kallaugher's a lot when I first started doing cartoons. Twice I've done cartoons that I was really happy with then realised some time later that they were in fact KAL's ideas that I'd seen a few years earlier.
I also stopped looking at Daryl Cagle's site after a similar thing happened with one of the cartoons from there.
It's annoying and very embarrassing, but not uncommon, Stephen!
Ah that's reassuring cheers Morten. Such is cartooning I guess. I'm gonna operate an immediate-confession policy on this blog if it happens again though. I don't mind my influences showing, but I hate the thought of people seeing my stuff and thinking I'm intentionally copying other people's ideas...
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