PIRATED- AAR!
DCP scan . . . . . . . . . . OriginalSo Shark-Man has turned up in a CBR pirate version, scanned by some guys named Team DCP.
How do i feel about it?
Well i dunno really.
Yeah, I'm kinda flattered in one way, but it's not like i can rationalize at it as an advert for a live concert in the way a musician can. It took three hard months to put Shark-Man #2 together, and we're not making much back.
There's the "reaching a wider audience" thing i guess, and there's no glory in being a moody old f*ck about it.
heh, I'm such a control freak. I almost feel like sending them the original art files- i'd spent two nights just getting the colour separations right for the printers, and it kills me to think kids are ending up reading such a bleached out VHS copy!
posted by steve pugh at 2:05 AM
37 Comments:
Isn't this basically piracy? The same as dodgy copy DVD's and burnt cd's. While I've got some of them,when it strays into a small market like comics it takes on a unpalatable feel. You "seem" to be taking it quite well. Personally I think I'd be absolutely livid. FURIOUS BEYOND REASON. Its your work! Is this illegal in some way?
well, what can i do, realistically? Shake my fist in the air with impotent rage, and look like a tool with the rest of the "old media"?
We can't just stuff the comic full of google ads and give it away free, the market's too small, we have to find some way to adapt or go back to working in the biscuit factory!
That sucks big time. I was emailing back and forth with Dave Flora and he told me about this (love your work by the way) infringement. Sharkman is a hot property no doubt - I finally got my hands on both issues and someone stole them out my bag at a diner I had a business meeting at...heh...Can you get Image to at least drop a cease and desist on them or something???
Major Bummer...:(
hey-hi!
thanks, sorry you lost your copies, if i ever get my comps i'll mail you replacements :-)
hmmm...I don't think cease and desists are the way to go, everything i've seen happen in filesharing has convinced me it's unstoppable. The trick is to figure out how to make a living now things are turned on their head. It's great that an alternative venue to the comic shop is appearing- the ordering and distribution system hold a huge amount of power over what material comic readers are exposed to, but only time will tell if those shops were actually a prison, or in fact our last sanctuary.
Your work's AMAZING by the way!
Howdy back atchya!!
Hey no sweat on the Sharkman books I plan on replacing both of them as soon as I get back to the comic shop for sure (totally worth a respend). That's some of the best work I've seen in a while in the indies. Just love those books you go through over and over enjoying the art as much as the stories. Thanks sooo much on the gracious comments on my work - very nice of ya! Issue 3 of Sharkman in the works??? What's up with that toy figure that coming out too???
The green and blue are more vibrant in your original art than it is on the printed page. Is the printer partly to blame for the bleached out scan?
Hey dude, to put things in perspective, I will order a copy of Sharkman through my local shopkeep. Perhaps the cosmic scale will be balanced again.
Now, if 100,000 others follow suit, we'll be totally square.
-Sloofus
I bought both issues (new #1, old #2) but they were hard to find.
Given the relative success of Radiohead and NIN/Niggy Tardust maybe independent comics need to follow a similar model? I don't know how well this would sit with Image and/or Diamond but it's something that hasn't really been confronted in any meaningful way (Digital Comics [Un]