X-Men Are Not Alone: tributes, plagiarisms, coincidences...

[Ricochet Rita]

I don't really consider that to be anything. A roaring bear drawn with its teeth showing? That sounds and looks pretty generic. Like anyone could think of that for a cool visual. If the thing was drawn closer to how the demon bear is drawn there then I could see it being an influence but as it is? Hardly.

Maybe. I rather think of it as a subconscious reference: it happens often, at least to me, that I'm drawing something and once I've finished it I come to realize that I've been unwittingly recalling a picture by somebody else, and I've been inspired by it (more like I've copied it!).

[JustAnotherFan]

Maybe. I rather think of it as a subconscious reference: it happens often, at least to me, that I'm drawing something and once I've finished it I come to realize that I've been unwittingly recalling a picture by somebody else, and I've been inspired by it (more like I've copied it!).

That can certainly happen but I just don't see much similarities between those 2 images beyond both of them depicting a roaring bear's head in the background. It's like if a cover featured a wolf that was howling at the moon and then saying that it was influenced by or directly ripped off one of the millions of pictures of howling wolves. It doesn't have to have necessarily been ripping off any of those millions of pictures with howling wolves in them because the concept of a howling wolf is so universal and widespread that it's hard to attribute it to one artist alone and then say that anyone else after that is simply ripping them off or paying homage to them (whether intentionally or not).

[Ricochet Rita]

Jackson Guice is a limited artist, but he has good taste. He was on board for The New Mutants #45, 'We were only foolin'', well-known for its strong antibullying message. Given that this story happened during a teen party, the best choice was turning to legendary TNM #21, 'Slumber party', masterpiece by Bill Sienkiewicz. Guice plundered side-faces, earrings, clothes, dance steps and probably much more, with amazing (as always) inking by Kyle Baker.

[Ricochet Rita]

[Ricochet Rita]

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Giant Size X-Men 1- Dave Cockrum

Marvel Age 33 – Jackson Guice http://www.comicsreporter.com/index....y_butch_guice/

[DDD]

Wow, those NM Guice swipes are really cheap... :/

[Ricochet Rita]

You mean that they're easy to pick up for any reader (that is, I'm not telling anything new), or that Guice was clumsy? I'm often confused by your posts, LOL .

[616MarvelYear is LeapYear]

Title: The Uncanny X-Men #282
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover date: 1991
Artist: Whilce Portacio
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index....ilce_portacio/

Title: X-Men Unlimited #29
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover date: 2000
Artist: Brett Booth

[DDD]

You mean that they're easy to pick up for any reader (that is, I'm not telling anything new), or that Guice was clumsy? I'm often confused by your posts, LOL .

That he was incredibly lazy and unoriginal in his swiping.

[Carabas]

Wow, those NM Guice swipes are really cheap... :/

That's not what a swipe is.

[LordAllMIghty]

Title: The Uncanny X-Men #282
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover date: 1991
Artist: Whilce Portacio
http://www.comicsreporter.com/index....ilce_portacio/

Title: X-Men Unlimited #29
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Cover date: 2000
Artist: Brett Booth

Whoa, I've seen those covers many times and never even thought about them matching up...nice.

[Ricochet Rita]

I rather think of it as a subconscious reference: it happens often, at least to me, that I'm drawing something and once I've finished it I come to realize that I've been unwittingly recalling a picture by somebody else, and I've been inspired by it (more like I've copied it!).

Told you so! Many years ago I did a pic of Typhoid Mary and Daredevil. Just yesterday, all of a sudden, I noticed that it was almost identical to this one:



*gasp* I swear it was an absolutely involuntary thing. We are what we read...

[Ricochet Rita]

Now, let's go with our beloved Liefeld >:-) .

This is a tribute (similar characters, similar intros):

UXM Annual #10



TNM #99

[Ricochet Rita]

This is a plagiarism (maybe involuntary...but I doubt it):

TNM Special Edition



TNM #100



Actually, it is more likely the kind of unintentionally plagiarisms which I'm talking about.