A Quickie for the Morning
Feb. 25th, 2010 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadedmusingsIt's as if a million weaboos cried out at once on the Internet and a famous rock star's son was suddenly beset by cries of plagiarism.
Tl;dr summary: Nick Simmons, son of KISS frontman Gene Simmons, writes/draws a comic book. Fans of the anime/manga Bleach notice some very, very strong similarities between the characters, and in one case it appears that he outright traced Kenpachi. Outraged, the fans post the information for the publishing companies of all the parties involved and amazingly they get a response.
Other possible sources for his blatant stealing include Full Metal Alchemist, Hellsing, and Naruto. For more WTF-ness, he may have even lifted a character from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
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sf_drama has more.
Radical Publishing has responded and they are halting production of Simmons's comic. Also, Kubo Tite and his publishers (author of Bleach) are aware thanks to the thousands of fans alerting them via the Internet.
The lesson here? Do not fuck with fans in the age of the Internet, for they will mess your shit up. And plagiarism is bad, mmmkay?
Tl;dr summary: Nick Simmons, son of KISS frontman Gene Simmons, writes/draws a comic book. Fans of the anime/manga Bleach notice some very, very strong similarities between the characters, and in one case it appears that he outright traced Kenpachi. Outraged, the fans post the information for the publishing companies of all the parties involved and amazingly they get a response.
Other possible sources for his blatant stealing include Full Metal Alchemist, Hellsing, and Naruto. For more WTF-ness, he may have even lifted a character from Neil Gaiman's Sandman.
sf_drama has more.Radical Publishing has responded and they are halting production of Simmons's comic. Also, Kubo Tite and his publishers (author of Bleach) are aware thanks to the thousands of fans alerting them via the Internet.
The lesson here? Do not fuck with fans in the age of the Internet, for they will mess your shit up. And plagiarism is bad, mmmkay?
