Slog (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Kinda looks like that way. Homage says the New Yorker; rip off says a University of Wisconsin prof/comic geek. More at the New York Post . Via Gawker .
Yankee Pot Roast (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Today's New York Post uncovered an uncanny similarity between The New Yorker’s open-caption cartoon drawn by Harry Bliss and the cover of an issue of Marvel Comics’ Tales to Astonish drawn by Jack “King” Kirby in 1962. New Yorker spokeswoman Alexa Cassanos declared this an uncredited “tribute.” But ...
bookshelves of doom (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
You decide. I dunno. A tribute should include some mention of what is being honored, no? But it sounds more like an error in judgment than a genuine attempt to rip Kirby off. I think the advertisements for the Dina...
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
Click here to receive mediabistro.com's Daily Newsfeed via email. Tribute or Plagiarism in New Yorker Cartoon? ( NYP ) What is with The New Yorker 's Cartoon Caption Contest? In a scene straight out Seinfeld , the magazine is being accused of cartoon plagiarism. The cartoon for the May 12 edition of the magazine's popular caption contest is strikingly similar to the cover of a Marvel comic book from...
Emdashes (Free subscription) | 05/22/2008
...if people can't spot an obvious homage when they see one? You hardly have to be a comics historian to get the joke. B'gosh, Oshkosh. (Thanks to B.K. who noted this a few weeks ago, and C.T., who also sent me a link—it just seemed too silly to mention.)
Blog@Newsarama (Free subscription) | 05/23/2008
I got this a few times in my email box yesterday, but I’m still scratching my head over what the big deal is … earlier this month I ( and others ) posted about The New Yorker ’s monthly caption contest featuring a Jack Kirby monster: Now the New York Post has a story up about a university professor from Wisconsin calling the New Yorker out on swiping from the King: Thomas Lammers, a professor at the...
