He said another webcomic artist was basically stealing his work.

June 24, 2004 9:45 PM

Yesterday Scott Kurtz of PVPonline.com posted something about how another webcomic artist was basically stealing his work. Yet, he did not mention this artist by name, or what the actual webcomic is, so I could not make a judgement for myself. Anyone know what said webcomic is and where it can be found?
posted by geekhorde to Media & Arts (16 answers total)

Can you find a link to the actual test of his accusation? It might provide clues.
posted by Apoch at 9:50 PM on June 24, 2004

Response by poster: I tried but it seems that he has deleted it. It's not in his archives or rants (that's what it was).
posted by geekhorde at 9:58 PM on June 24, 2004

This is the cached version of the rant. But as who he is talking about...sorry.
posted by meech at 3:17 AM on June 25, 2004

It's Spells and Whistles.
posted by cCranium at 4:17 AM on June 25, 2004

Kurtz is an ass.
posted by ssmith at 6:30 AM on June 25, 2004

I was gonna say something along the same lines. I love the strip, but I pretty much avoid reading anything else by him whatsoever. He's an arrogant SOB (not to say that I wouldnt be just as bad if I were him), and has a hair-trigger flame reflex.

Love the art, cant stand the artist. Same old, same old. (I'm calling your names Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Neal Stephenson!!)
posted by Irontom at 8:28 AM on June 25, 2004

but both the wizard and the red-haired person really are pretty similar.
I could see being a bit miffed.
posted by milovoo at 8:31 AM on June 25, 2004

The two pictures of the red-haired person are both from the Spells and Whistles comic, he says it resembles his character "Jade" which I think is a bit of a stretch.
posted by bobo123 at 8:54 AM on June 25, 2004

I think he should be more concerned with the fact that for an entire storyline he totally ripped off Stewie from Family Guy with a genius world-domineering cat hampered by his miniscule feline temperment.

Maybe that was an homage. I dunno.
posted by Stan Chin at 8:58 AM on June 25, 2004

oh, oops. Less obvious in that case.
posted by milovoo at 8:58 AM on June 25, 2004

Response by poster: The red haired person from Spells & Whistles looks more like Jade used to look like when Kurtz was drawing her another way.

I found Kurtz's whole approach to this very underhanded. Why not mention who it was? The whole thing stunk of spin.

And what about parody and satire? Those are both protected speech, no matter what Kurtz says.

Oh yeah, and I'm certain Kurtz was not the first person to think of putting their D&D experiences into a comic.

What a putz.
posted by geekhorde at 10:31 AM on June 25, 2004

Love the art, cant stand the artist. Same old, same old. (I'm calling your names Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, Harlan Ellison, Neal Stephenson!!)
posted by Irontom at 8:28 AM PST on June 25

are you saying Neal Stephenson is an asshole? Say it ain't so!
posted by Miles Long at 11:33 AM on June 25, 2004

Orson Scott Card.
posted by ODiV at 11:43 AM on June 25, 2004

What is it about webcomic artists and high-school-esque melodrama?
posted by mmcg at 12:36 PM on June 25, 2004

Oh yeah, and I'm certain Kurtz was not the first person to think of putting their D&D experiences into a comic.

Phil and Dixie are from what, '82? Or Fineous Fingers from '79 or so?
posted by milovoo at 12:38 PM on June 25, 2004

are you saying Neal Stephenson is an asshole? Say it ain't so!

No, actually, he's just reclusive and grumpy. Not quite assholeish.
posted by SpecialK at 11:28 PM on June 25, 2004