tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83573301158231730972024-03-13T14:28:43.859-04:00The Official Guide to Deadbeats in ComicsThis Blog is here to EXPOSE the Dirty Underbelly of the Comic book Industry and Name Names! Here, we will post names of Publishers, Artists, etc. who CHEAT, SWINDLE, and STEAL from FREELANCER'S and CONSUMERS.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger37125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-13791682038780343902017-12-10T13:07:00.000-05:002018-01-09T17:16:46.245-05:00Sean Ranieri Art Theif!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Sean Ranieri from Australia of <a class="twitter-timeline-link external" href="https://www.deviantart.com/users/outgoing?https://t.co/VuIbNjnCsv" target="_blank" title="http://Comeinpce.com"><span class="tco-ellipsis"></span><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="js-display-url">Comeinpce.com</span><span class="invisible"></span><span class="tco-ellipsis"><span class="invisible"> </span></span></a> steals art and sells it on his website in various forms, please don't buy his garbage.<br />
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was contacted by email and comment on my deviant art page to use my
artwork, he was vague and didn't give me any details about what he
intended to do with the art, so I looked him up and found a website
selling tshirts, pins, etc. with unlicensed characters and art taken
from the internet, including my Lois Griffin art.<br />
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If you support artists, please don't buy garbage from his website! Please link this to all comic, manga art related outlets.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-72706156334798487552017-01-09T19:28:00.000-05:002017-01-09T19:28:02.499-05:00Brian Czompi<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Hey artists, If you find a random image on google and trace it, call it a "Re-Creation, then sell it, is it fair?<br /><br />I came across an "artist" Brian Czompi on FB trying to sell Loston Wallace's Joker inked by Nick Guy, he claimed he recreated it and it's not traced.<br /><br />What do you think?<img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSGcPRPRqHgMw9lE6k9JVbM0Fh9PRs9ZJZFi29YBQbVcUP3aSUk0im_u_SFnzks6uQciFY3AoIwK-MQ8zwxeffeB4AJOlxx8eaycSVxpq_fW3Lq7aT3RBR_9xkJtF3IS9TbQCjuixxQJc/s320/BrianCzompi.gif" width="255" /></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-66397012636975440652014-12-16T15:16:00.000-05:002014-12-16T15:16:08.365-05:00Michael Pearson is todays dumbass~<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From Bleeding Cool- Posted <time class="updated entry-time" datetime="2014-12-16" itemprop="datePublished">December 16, 2014</time> by <span class="by">by</span> <span class="entry-author author" itemprop="author" itemscope=""><a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/" rel="author external" title="Visit Rich Johnston’s website">Rich Johnston</a></span><br />
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Last week, we reported on <strong>Michael Pearson</strong>, <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/artists-and-colourists-beware-michael-pearson-and-the-fake-dark-horse-comic/">a man recruiting artists to draw comic book art for him, by faking approval letters from Dark Horse Comic editors.</a><br />
But how did it all go down?<br />
Artist <strong>Michael Lawler</strong> got in touch.<br />
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My name is Mike Lawler and I was one of the people duped
in the most recent round of advertisements of his scam. He was posting
on Penciljack.com’s forums with the same song and dance as the others.
What makes my case different, is that I actually reached out and
contacted Daniel Chabon at Dark Horse. He was completely unaware of the
scam and I forwarded all of the communications including links to the 7
pages I had drawn on this phoney project. I was able to obtain Pearson’s
phone number as well and all of that information has been forwarded to
Dark Horse’s legal department. As far as I know they plan on pursuing
legal action.</blockquote>
I understand Dark Horse have forwarded all the details they have to
the FBI. If anyone else out there has been conned by Michael Pearson, it
might be an idea to get in touch.<br />
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<a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/the-artist-who-busted-michael-pearson/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/the-artist-who-busted-michael-pearson/</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-37956952902979137682014-12-07T10:43:00.002-05:002014-12-07T10:43:23.227-05:00Last Unicorn Publisher Targeted With Accusations Of Fraud - Article by Rich Johnston Bleeding Cool<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Last Unicorn Publisher Targeted With Accusations Of Fraud</h1>
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/last-unicorn-publisher-targeted-with-accusations-of-fraud/" rel="bookmark" title="12:00 pm"><span class="entry-date updated">December 6, 2014</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/author/rich-johnston/" title="View all posts by Rich Johnston">Rich Johnston</a></span> </div>
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<a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/12/last-unicorn-targeted-with-accusations-of-fraud/lastunicorn-02-coverfin/" rel="attachment wp-att-380933"><img alt="LastUnicorn-02-coverFin" class="alignright size-medium wp-image-380933" height="350" src="http://cdn.bleedingcool.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/LastUnicorn-02-coverFin-225x350.jpg?147f14" width="225" /></a><a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2010/09/last-unicorn-creators-to-fund-extra-pages-for-idw/">Back in 2010, Bleeding Cool ran a story</a> about how the creators of the <strong>Last Unicorn</strong>
comic book, published by IDW, were running a Kickstarter to fund extra
pages for the comic that the publisher was unwilling to pay for.<br />
The comic was based on <strong>Peter S. Beagle</strong> novel, and created by<strong> Peter Gillis, Renae De Liz</strong> and <strong>Ray Dillon</strong>, through Conlan Press.<br />
It’s part of much wider claims of fraud made against the company and creators by <a href="http://fansagainstfraud.com/">FansAgainstFraud</a> who claim ten years of not providing promises. They target <strong>Connor Cochran</strong> of Conlan Press, saying,<br />
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Connor Cochran is the operater/owner of Conlan Press and
manager of The Last Unicorn movie tour. He has taken our money for many
years without producing goods. When we complain, we get no goods or
refunds. There have only been excuses that keep changing – <a href="http://159.8.7.2/?p=228">a string of broken promises</a>.<br />
These titles, sold by Conlan Press and listed on their site, have been undelivered<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Unicorn#Audiobook">starting as early as 2004</a>:<br />
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<li><em>THE LAST UNICORN Audiobook — 8 CD Edition</em></li>
<li><em>THE LAST UNICORN Audiobook — MP3-on-CD Edition</em></li>
<li><em>TWO HEARTS — Collector’s Illustrated Hardcover</em></li>
<li><em>WRITING SAREK — Hardcover Edition</em></li>
<li><em>EXTRA DELUXE LAST UNICORN HARDCOVERS</em></li>
<li><em>… and others …</em></li>
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<a href="http://159.8.7.2/?p=123">See a list of victims.</a> If victims buzz too loudly, Cochran <em>blasts them</em>
for causing problems… as if these complaints aren’t harm he did to many
independent sources. Please share them and demand help NOW.</blockquote>
That’s a big list of victims, going back many years. The site also
makes a number of other charges against Cochran, looking at past
lawsuits and charges against him. <a href="http://159.8.7.2/?p=228">A recent update</a> has detailed how such long delays may have been achieved, <a href="http://159.8.7.2/?p=228">listing a series of conflicting and elaborate excuses over the year</a>s, including departing staff member, embezzlement and more. IDW gets mentioned along the way, including from 14th February 2011,<br />
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In mid-December we sent an email out to all our LAST
UNICORN comic subscribers explaining the delay which had taken place
with issues 3-6. (Recapping briefly: thanks to a communications problem,
IDW only printed enough copies of issues 3-6 for their comic shop
outlets, and none for us. They *are* reprinting the ones we need, but it
is going to take a while, possibly even a few more months.)</blockquote>
Ray Dillon and Renae De Liz are also still accused themselves of <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2013/03/ray-dillon/">non-delivery and delay of projects</a> from the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaedeliz/peter-pan-the-graphic-novel-vol-1/comments">Peter Pan graphic novel Kickstarter</a>, to the <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/renaedeliz/womanthology-massive-all-female-comic-anthology/comments">Womanthology Kickstarter</a>, as well a<a href="http://www.scoundrelpublishing.com/spart2/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=27453&hilit=ray+dillon&sid=b63581faa4e65f4fcff7e5687b9c9c9d">s repeated stories of commissioned work</a> that was extremely delayed or never fulfilled, including work such as <strong>Rami Ali</strong>‘s <a href="https://www.facebook.com/WorldZedd">World Zedd</a>. With, I have to say, the occasional very pleased and happy client.<br />
But I do have to say, I thought unicorns were meant to be lucky….<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-71416018967668663402014-03-11T14:11:00.001-04:002014-03-11T14:11:22.156-04:00Josh Hoopes still scamming you for your hard earned money!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="meta-prep meta-prep-author">Posted on</span> <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/03/11/now-josh-hoopes-targets-kickstarter-projects-as-samitra-banks/" rel="bookmark" title="9:00 am"><span class="entry-date updated">March 11, 2014</span></a> <span class="meta-sep">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/author/rich-johnston/" title="View all posts by Rich Johnston">Rich Johnston</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">" Recently, Bleeding Cool exposed the latest identity of serial comics industry conman, <strong>Josh Hoopes</strong>, as one <strong>Samitra Banks</strong>. And, in the process, manages to save at least one person from commissioning work from this fictitious identity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Josh Hoopes poses as a single mother with a five year
old daughter in need of work and showing plenty of artistic skills –
even if those artistic skills are taken from other people’s websites.
Hoopes’ <em>modus operandi</em> is, if commissioned for work, to commission others to do that work, not pay them, keep the money and disappear."</span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-23408180412040740812014-03-02T17:08:00.002-05:002014-03-02T17:08:46.650-05:00Scam Artist John Campbell - Kickstarter<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Reported by Rich Johnston - <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/02/28/kickstarter-fail-john-campbell-burns-comics-rather-than-sending-them-to-donors/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2014/02/28/kickstarter-fail-john-campbell-burns-comics-rather-than-sending-them-to-donors/</a><br />
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YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT THIS GUY DOES!!! Please click the link to read the article.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-89362495844354583712013-08-02T13:36:00.005-04:002013-08-02T13:36:55.147-04:00Tanriel/ Vilania tracing art for commissions!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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I just wanted to bring to everyone’s attention a very serious matter. An
“artist" from WoW who goes by Tanriel/Vilania (used to be on Moon
Guard, moved to Wyrmrest Accord) has been accepting money from people
for art. These people are commissioning what they believe to be original
art of their characters, when we’ve recently discovered most of her art
is traced/stolen. </blockquote>
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Read the article here: <a href="http://victoriavai.tumblr.com/post/55132960225/signal-boost-stolen-art">http://victoriavai.tumblr.com/post/55132960225/signal-boost-stolen-art</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-84957032501828550312013-06-18T10:32:00.001-04:002013-06-18T10:32:14.723-04:00Rick Olney dies @ 58<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This caught me by surprize, after checking my stats I found a link to his obituary on a comic fansite, Rick Olney died 12-28-2012. This is the first I'm hearing of it, he left quietly that's for sure, my sympathy goes out to the family.<br />
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<a href="http://www.tributes.com/show/Richard-L.-Olney-94984001">http://www.tributes.com/show/Richard-L.-Olney-94984001</a><br />
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It's sad to see him go before he could change things for the better.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-90804563331187107422013-06-07T00:09:00.004-04:002013-06-07T23:43:05.291-04:00Interesting story about DC Editorial<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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encounter with them for the New 52? Because I am appalled at the way in
which creators are being bullied, and somewhat freaked out at the things
I saw in my own time there. I encountered more lies and veiled threats –
more attempts to justify dysfunctional behavior and systems – than I
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-62071381659135961892012-09-22T15:33:00.000-04:002012-09-22T15:33:50.739-04:00Rich Johnston gathers INTEL on Josh Hoopes for FBI INVESTIGATION!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
This news is brilliant and I am mirroring his article here, hopefully there will be justice for the victims of this scam artist [JOSH HOOPES]<br />
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From BLEEDINGCOOL.COM/ RICH JOHNSTON - <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/22/have-you-been-screwed-by-josh-hoopes-get-in-touch/" target="_blank">SOURCE </a><br />
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Have you been screwed buy Josh Hoopes?<br />
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Did he pose as you to get commissioned work?<br />
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Did you hire him, based on falsified credentials?<br />
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Did he deliver art from another artist pretending it was his?<br />
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Did he hire you as an artist, take some pages and then disappear, never paying you a penny?<br />
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Then it is time to get in touch. Things are happening. Legal people
are being consulted in and around<br />
Sacremento, California as well as the
FBI.<br />
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Email your details and your case study to <a href="mailto:comicartjustice@gmail.com">comicartjustice@gmail.com</a>.</blockquote>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-30028383616025083932012-09-15T08:05:00.000-04:002012-09-15T08:08:27.312-04:00Josh Hoopes steals art to promote himself-<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Here is a link to Josh Hoopes gallery on Photobucket <a href="http://s1164.photobucket.com/albums/q577/joshuajohn987/?start=all">http://s1164.photobucket.com/albums/q577/joshuajohn987/?start=all</a><br />
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I spent a good deal of time searching the net for the art he has stolen to represent his work and here are my findings:<br />
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First here is an anonymous blog where Josh goes by the user name Lilat <a href="http://lalitart.blogspot.com/">http://lalitart.blogspot.com/</a> the fist 5 images in his gallery are displayed in this blog. And I imagine the next 5 images are from the same timeframe. I doubt STRONGLY Josh Hoopes drew these pages but I could not find the original artist.<br />
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This was next in his gallery and I found the real artist <a href="http://kleea.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d31eogm" target="_blank">Kleea</a></div>
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The next 3 images are by an Illustrator named <a href="http://bengalsarchives.blogspot.com/2012/01/heavily-scheduled-happy-new-year.html" target="_blank">Bengal</a></div>
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The next image is of a Map from a children's book by <a href="http://alexistapp.com/stories/9-map-of-the-land-of-jackowhisp" target="_blank">Alexis Tapp</a></div>
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Art by <a href="http://speculativevision.com/art/displayimage.php?pid=88" target="_blank">Brett Fitzpatrick</a></div>
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Special thanks to <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/14/how-josh-hoopes-gets-away-with-it-time-after-time/" target="_blank">Bleedingcool.com</a> for providing links to his gallery and keeping us up to date on his attempts at fraud and criminal activity.</div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-26290334823746349972012-09-06T21:32:00.002-04:002012-09-06T21:32:15.367-04:00Seth Reedy - SCAM ARTIST - POSER<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Another POSER shows up on Bleedingcool.com with a profound album of art, unfortunately for Seth Reedy on FaceBook, he claimed to be the artist of work that was not his. And gets commissions by displaying and stating he drew art that he knows to be untrue. Seth Reedy is a flat out liar and thief.<br />
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Article on Bleedingcool.com - <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/06/seth-reedy-a-new-rob-granito/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/09/06/seth-reedy-a-new-rob-granito/</a></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-14208022969006678852012-08-14T13:53:00.002-04:002012-08-14T13:53:29.511-04:00Gail Simone has some advice for you...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Taken from the 606 Studios forum and written by Gail Simone:<br />
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"How To Spot Rick Olney When He Approaches You<br />
<br />
I thought it would be worthwhile to post the exact approach Rick uses to get what he wants without paying.<br />
If you somehow manage to disbelieve the dozens of firsthand testimonials of industry people regarding this man,<br />
if you choose to ignore their warnings, take a look at this list and see if it matches his behavior with you.<br />
<br />
Say you have something of use or value to Rick. It could be comics, it could be talent, it could be anything.<br />
<br />
STEP ONE: He flatters you beyond all reason. He proclaims himself to be your biggest fan. And he's going to be<br />
your benefactor...he's going to do everything in his power to make you get the recognition, money, or<br />
credentials you want. He finds what you want, and tells you he will supply it. But first, flattery, flattery, flattery.<br />
He uses this technique every time, and it is especially effective on people just breaking into the industry, or those<br />
who are aspiring to do so.<br />
<br />
STEP TWO: He tells you a huge sack of nonsense about his credentials, claims so ridiculous (and completely bull*&^%),<br />
that they somehow seem credible because no sane person would make them up. He tells you credentials he doesn't<br />
have...he's friends with Stan Lee, he invented the idea of comics in the classroom, his comic club had 1800 members<br />
and gave away 700000 comics, George Lucas named a character and toy after him in Phantom Menace, the film<br />
Iron Man II has a cameo character that is supposed to be him, half a dozen characters in comics are based on him<br />
or his club mascot, on and on and on...it's endless. And most people do not have the resources or inclination<br />
to check these claims. So it SOUNDS like he actually is in the industry in some capacity. He isn't (and the claims<br />
are all false).<br />
<br />
STEP THREE: He promises you extravagant treatment. He will fly you out to his cons, pay for everything,<br />
you will be treated like royalty, paid an appearance fee, ride in town cars...or, if he's trying to get you to work <br />
for free, he will offer you a high page rate and lots of exposure. He has no capacity to do any of these things,<br />
ever. But he will promise them. <br />
<br />
STEP FOUR: He will lay out a long, long conspiracy theory where a few internet trolls are trying to ruin his good name.<br />
He will play the sympathy card here...you will feel sorry for him. Until the moment you read dozens of firsthand<br />
accounts of people who have been told this same line of nonsense. Does it REALLY sound right to you that<br />
dozens of people have come forward, all telling the same story, and none were paid, and yet somehow,<br />
the response is all to try to crush some weird little man in upstate New York? Use your reason,<br />
read the testimonials. Look past the flattery and the promise of money you will NEVER receive.<br />
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STEP FIVE: He will issue you a boilerplate contract that he got off the internet that has nothing<br />
to do with the industry and makes little sense in this context. An NDA will be included.<br />
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STEP SIX: He will immediately begin breaking promises. Immediately. Pay dates will be missed. These<br />
will be blamed on a non-existent bookkeeper. He will have to 'draw from a special account.' He will<br />
tell you the check is in the mail. We all heard all those excuses. Sometimes he would forget which <br />
excuse he used last time and try it again weeks later with the same person. You will NOT be paid.<br />
His answer will always be for you to keep working. You've come this far, right? You are going<br />
to risk everything over a small amount of money? Keep working. He will have endless excuses,<br />
which will hinge on your human decency--he will have deaths in the family, illnesses, and other<br />
catastrophic problems. They won't stop him from having internet tantrums or telling people the<br />
check is in the mail when it isn't, all they seem to prevent is him keeping his word. <br />
<br />
STEP SEVEN: As it becomes clear that you are not getting paid, and you are yet another of his<br />
victims, he will start to show his true colors. He will start to threaten you, mildly at first. Threats<br />
to your career, legal threats. At this point, he is trying to bully you into work he hasn't<br />
paid for. He will use things he learned against you that you told him in confidence. <br />
<br />
STEP EIGHT: He will try stretching you along. This happens with everyone he abuses in this manner...<br />
he will offer some sort of bonus you didn't ask for, 'for the inconvenience.' Everything from<br />
t-shirts, to bonuses, to merchandise, to comics...he's going to be a magnanimous guy and<br />
even though you are being SO MEAN by not trusting him, just because he's broken every promise,<br />
he's going to be the bigger guy and give you this bonus. When he pays you. Which he never will.<br />
These bonuses never appear. But he will still tell people he gave them to you. For months,<br />
he told people he paid my husband's airfare to his con, when he hadn't even fully paid MY airfare.<br />
Then one day, he just admitted he hadn't, and tried out a new lie, that I had demanded he pay<br />
my husband's airfare. Just like that, like a switch was thrown, the old lie was discarded and a<br />
new one put in place. It's weird as hell. Don't fall for it.<br />
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STEP NINE: Here, he will begin inventing hoops for you to jump through, additional steps to <br />
do before you will get paid. If you don't do them, you won't be paid. If you DO do them, you<br />
won't be paid, you'll just get more hoops. New paperwork he needs, he'll 'lose your email and<br />
contact info,' receipts he never asked for will need to be produced, additional fixes to the work,<br />
on and on. All delaying tactics. He told his former PR person, in public, that she just needed<br />
to sign an NDA to get paid. She said fine, I'll sign it. He immediately changed his mind, the NDA<br />
was worthless and she wouldn't be paid. Hoops, hoops, hoops. I don't know if he just likes<br />
sticking the knife in, or it's a delaying tactic. But it makes zero difference, you won't be paid.<br />
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STEP TEN A: At this point you have the choice of either giving up and forgetting about it, in which<br />
case, you will never be paid, or going public about it, in which case, you will never be paid.<br />
If you don't go public, he will come up with an excuse not to pay you. He won't answer your<br />
emails or phone calls. You won't be paid.<br />
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STEP TEN B: If you DO go public, he will use that as an excuse not to pay you. The NDA, which<br />
offers NO protection for a deadbeat employer who broke the contract, will be the excuse. But what<br />
if, like, say, Chuck Dixon, you were never given an NDA, you didn't sign an NDA, and the work was<br />
completed and accepted? You STILL will NOT be paid.<br />
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STEP ELEVEN: Once you are on Olney's never-ending enemies list, there is no level he won't stoop<br />
to. He will insult, harass, threaten...he will use racist, homophobic and misogynistic language. He will<br />
issue physical and legal threats. Just last month he posted a smug mocking taunt to a woman who<br />
had stood up to him, over the DEATH OF HER HUSBAND AND CHILD. This is a man who will tell<br />
you endlessly what an honorable Christian man he is. He delighted in telling an artist who trusted<br />
him that he would never be paid, while that man's angelic baby daughter was in the hospital near<br />
the very end of her too-short life. He will try to embarrass and hurt you for daring to speak out<br />
about his non-payment and bad behavior. <br />
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And you will never, ever, ever be paid.<br />
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If anyone, not just Rick, but ANYONE in the comics industry treats you like this, WALK AWAY.<br />
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They are poison. They can't help your career, and you aren't doing them any favors. They are not<br />
well-intended goofs. <br />
<br />
MOST people in comics are great. I have been fortunate enough to be involved in probably close to <br />
a hundred conventions and appearances and haven't had a single bad experience or dishonest <br />
promoter in the batch, EXCEPT for the Mighty-Mini Con, which I wish to God I had never agreed to<br />
attend. <br />
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MOST are great. Don't let one person make you think it's all bad.<br />
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But BE AWARE. The internet allows you to communicate, to make sure a publisher or con organizer is on<br />
the level. Take that ten minutes, be wary of false flattery and promises, and you will save<br />
yourself endless misery later.<br />
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Thanks, and good day!"</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-26156958503283996632012-08-13T14:44:00.002-04:002012-08-13T14:44:49.521-04:00Zenescope non-payment to Artists<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Just read this article on Bleedingcool.com by Rich Johnston -<br />
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"I’ve been following problems with creator payment at Zenescope for some
time now. People owed hundreds, thousands of dollars from the company,
which suffered major cashflow problems at the beginning of the year.
Initially, I approached the company with he details of individual
creators owed money, to find that within days they were paid. I didn’t
name the company or the creator on Bleeding Cool, it seemed to work out.
Initially I was told there were no problems and it was just examples of
miscommunication. But as time went on, this was clearly not the case,
and company representatives confessed to serious issues paying certain
creators on their books."<br />
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The full article is here - <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/13/the-archaia-to-zenescope-of-creator-non-payment/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/13/the-archaia-to-zenescope-of-creator-non-payment/</a><br />
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Will be following this situation.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-2149660871683452702012-08-09T09:16:00.001-04:002012-09-26T07:31:38.038-04:00Robert Kirkman being sued over Walking Dead rights<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Allegedly, Kirkman claimed the television deal would only go through if Tony Moore [co-creator of the Walking Dead] signed his rights over to Kirkman. Being friends, Tony Moore trusted Kirkman enough to do right by him but never came through.<br />
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I expect Kirkman to fight this tooth and nail and present himself as a victim like other cowards who fuck over their friends for money. THEY WERE GOOD FRIENDS TOO!<br />
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Get the full story here: <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/08/kirkman-is-a-proud-liar-and-fraudster-the-walking-dead-lawsuit-marches-on/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/08/08/kirkman-is-a-proud-liar-and-fraudster-the-walking-dead-lawsuit-marches-on/</a><br />
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<b>UPDATE: 09-26-2012</b> <br />
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I love it when I'm proven wrong, the creators settled in court! No details about the settlement but if it's settled then that's good enough.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-89365232761705338612012-07-25T04:46:00.000-04:002012-07-25T05:32:37.547-04:00Rick Olney emailed me today...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Rick Olney has threatened me with a lawsuit if I do not remove his "good name" from my blog.<br />
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I don't like being threatened or bullied, I am providing links to news/ information sources, Rick Olney owes money to artists. After legal Judgements were made against him several years ago, he has neglected to pay out money owed. This constitutes a deadbeat and Olney's name will remain. <br />
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I have found some more detailed sources of information about Rick Olney:<br />
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Here's a great video interview between Artful Angie and Rick Olney from Rich Johnston @ Bleedingcool.com <br />
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<a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/29/rick-olney-interviewed-by-artful-angie/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/04/29/rick-olney-interviewed-by-artful-angie/</a><br />
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And some in depth info from J.R. LeMay @ Iblogalot.com<br />
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<a href="http://iblogalot.com/2011/12/01/rick-olney-vs-matt-busch/" target="_blank">Olney vs Matt Busch by J.R. LeMar 12-01-2011</a><br />
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<a href="http://iblogalot.com/2011/12/01/rick-olney-vs-val-staples/" target="_blank">Olney vs Val Staples by J.R. LeMar 12-01-2011 </a><br />
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<a href="http://iblogalot.com/2011/12/01/rick-olney-vs-jim-tournas/" target="_blank">Olney vs Jim Tournas by J.R. LeMar 12-01-2011</a><br />
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<a href="http://iblogalot.com/2011/12/01/rick-olney-vs-scott-reed/" target="_blank">Olney vs Scott Reed by J.R. LeMar 12-01-2011</a><br />
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<a href="http://iblogalot.com/2011/12/01/a-warning-to-comics-professionals-about-rick-olney/" target="_blank">Rick Olney Warning by J.R. LeMar 12-01-2011</a><br />
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If Mr. Olney's lawyer requests my information please email me.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-13508180055894405702012-05-29T06:16:00.000-04:002012-05-29T06:16:07.069-04:00Response to Kirk Lindo's blog<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
I am just posting this here for archive purposes.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">KIRK LINDO</span> - <b><span style="color: blue;">MORGAN WELBORN </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: red;">"We entered into a contract with Morgan Welborn to
do an unspecified amount of Pin-ups that would be used in various
publications. THE TERMS OF THE CONTRACT WERE THAT ALL ORIGINAL ART SHALL
REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF BRAINSTORM MEDIA INC."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">I'm not disputing this claim, only that you sold my art and kept the money, when we had a deal as stated below.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"His contract stated that he would be paid for the sale of the original art based on the work he actually did on the art:</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">25% of the final selling price for Pencil Art.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">20% of the final selling price for Inking over other art.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">45% of the final selling price if he delivered both Pencils AND Inks."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><b><br /><span style="color: blue;">I have done a full inventory of the art I have sent to Kirk Lindo: </span><br style="color: blue;" /><br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;">13 Pin-up's penciled and inked all Published in Buxotica #1</span><br style="color: blue;" /><br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;">11 Luxura Pin-up's in pencil only. 7 Published in Vamperotica Pin-up Special #1</span><br style="color: blue;" /><br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;">6 Luxura Pin-up's Penciled and Inked [1 Double Splashpage] 4 Published in Vamperotica Illustrated #3</span></b><br /><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">"The contract also stated that he would be paid a per page royalty:</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">1.1% per published page of the profits for pencil art.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">0.9% per published page of the profits for inks over other pencils.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">2.0% per published page for fully inked art.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">He delivered a total a total of 24 images. 22 which were published in</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">* VAMPEROTICA PIN-UP SPECIAL #1</span><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">* VAMPEROTICA ILLUSTRATED #3</span><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">* BUXOTICA #1</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">And nowhere else."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">24 pages were published!</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"From the very beginning the art that he delivered was not in line with the instructions that we gave him."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">The
first two pin-up's I sent in did not have the correct hairstyle
according to Lindo, So he sent me reference material So I could draw it
more like his rendition. And I did that with his compliments. Never
heard any critiques or notes about the rest of the pin-up's I've sent
since. </span><br style="color: blue;" /><br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;">Keep in mind, the first 2 pin-up's in question were sent
in December of 1999, he did not send them back to be redrawn or fixed,
and one of them was published in the Pin-up Special.</span><br style="color: blue;" /><br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;">That was the
only instruction I had the entire time of drawing pin-up's, and I have
not had any complaints about the hair on the next 16 Luxura Pin-up's or
even the 13 Buxotica Pin-up's. So this claim is an outright LIE.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"Even so we did send him a payment of $50.00 for the early work he delivered and instructed him to do the rest as requested."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Wrong.
The $50.00 was sent from the first few Pin-up's sold on EBAY, and after
I told Lindo I would have trouble sending in more work by mail because I
was completely broke.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"THE TERMS OF HIS CONTRACT STATED THAT
THE ARTIST AGREES TO MAKE REVISIONS REQUESTED BY THE PUBLISHER .
However he continued to deliver work that was not acceptable and not
done as per the instructions he was given."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">He left out the
last part "WORK WILL BE CONSIDERED ACCEPTED UNLESS REVISIONS ARE
REQUESTED." NO revisions were requested, no artwork was sent back to me
to be revised. If I had delivered artwork he deemed unacceptable, then
the burden would be on him to communicate his concerns with me, which he
did nothing.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"In Several instances he delivered work that
was unfinished. Half of the work was inked and we had to have the work
completed by another artist. of the 24 images that he delivered 10 of
them had to completed by another artist just so they could be
published."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">By "UNFINISHED" you mean Pencils only. I was told
Penciled pages would not be a problem, And that option is clearly
stated in the payout terms of the contract. Out of the 11 penciled pages
I sent you, 7 were Published In Vamperotica Pin-up Special #1, they
were also the very first round of pin-up's sent to you in DEC 1999 and
JAN 2000. And you kept my contract valid another 3 or 4 months why? If I
was doing sub standard work then why was I allowed to keep cranking out
pin-up's for you for the following months? Another FLASE CLAIM.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"We
got tired of him not doing the complete work and causing us problems in
the production of the books by not making the revisions we requested
and determined his contract to be in breech and canceled his contract by
mail on July 24th, 2000."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Who's "we", there's just you, and I
was not drawing pin-up's in July. I could not even get a hold of you
since April of 2000 when I was due to be paid my first royalty check
from Vamperotica Pin-up Special #1, so April was the last month I sent
pin-up's in. And the letter you are referring to was you letting me know
you were filing for bankruptcy and closing down Brainstorm, which I
believed happened since the Sheriff delivering the small claims subpoena
found the address you use to print books under was vacant.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"The
contract breech clause of his agreement clearly stated that SHOULD THE
ARTIST FAIL TO HONOR THIS CONTRACT, SAID BREACH WILL CARRY PENALTIES
INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO: NON PAYMENT FOR WORK, NON RETURN OF
ORIGINAL ART AND NON CREDIT FOR EXISTING WORK."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Why would non credit for existing work be a penalty, or non return if you claim it anyway.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"Morgan
Welborn WAS CONTRACTED TO DELIVER WORK THAT MEETS WITH THE PUBLISHERS
STANDARDS. He was also CONTRACTED TO MAKE ANY REVISIONS REQUESTED BY THE
PUBLISHER. HE did not do this, he breached his contract, his contract
was canceled and he was fired."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">I would love to see the
notice you sent to fire me, you have everything else on record, as if
you were expecting some lawsuit or something.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"Morgan Welborn NEVER did 30+ pieces of art for us. He did a TOTAL of 24, 10 of which were unfinished."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">That's right, I produced 31 pages of art, 11 penciled 20 penciled and inked.</span></b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"Morgan
Welborn's art was CONTRACTED TO REMAIN THE PROPERTY OF THE PUBLISHER.
Therefore there was never any agreement to return art."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b style="color: blue;">No kidding, that's all on me. But I was contracted to be paid for every piece of art sent in.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"I don't know anything about a court claim for $3000.00 dollars so I cannot comment on that."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b style="color: blue;">I bet you can't, the Sheriff could not find you to deliver the subpoena.</b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"I
DO KNOW THAT MORGAN WELBORN CONTACTED THE CAROLINA BETTER BUSINESS
BUREAU CLAIMING THAT HE SENT 35+ PAGES OF ART AND WAS OWED $6000.00 IN
PAYMENT.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">HE ALSO BEGAN DEMANDING MONEY BEFORE HE WAS
CONTRACTED TO BE PAID. HE FILED HIS $6000.00 CLAIM WITH THE BBB IN JUNE
OF 2000 WHEN SOME OF THE WORK (BUXOTICA #1) WAS NOT EVEN PUBLISHED UNTIL
AUGUST OF 2000"</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">It was at that time that we compiled our documentation for any possible court proceedings."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Contacting
the BBB was a last ditch effort to do something after the subpoena
could not be delivered, I was very angry as well because Lindo would not
communicate with me at all from April 2000 onward. The $6000.00 number I
doubled my previous claim out of stress, had no information about the
print run, comics sold, etc. How could I? How could I have possibly
known what I was owed? </span><br style="color: blue;" /><br style="color: blue;" /><span style="color: blue;">But I do claim I am owed $3000.00 because
$100.00 a page is my page rate for drawing pin-up's, since Lindo voided
his own terms of the contract this has become my number.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"We
have photocopies of all of the art that was sold along with who they
were sold to and how much all of the art sold for. Going by the
percentages that he was originally contracted for Morgan Welborn would
have received a to total of $343.04 for the art sales and $45.72 of
royalties for the publications.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">When you take away the $50.00
that we already paid him that works out to $16.19 per image for art that
he did not even complete all the work on."</span><br /><br /><br /><b style="color: blue;">I would love to
see actual records of the art sold. You pretty much low-balled my work
on Ebay for a quick profit. I would also love to see which pin-up's you
thought were "unfinished" and how the 3rd party fixed them for
publication. </b><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"Where he gets the figures of $3000.00, $6000.00 and $1500.00, and 30+ or 35+ pages of art, I have no idea."</span><br /><br /><br /><b style="color: blue;">Yes you do have an idea, because you prepared for court proceedings as you stated earlier.</b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MORGAN WELBORN TO SHOW ANYWHERE THAT HE IS OWED $6000.00 OR $3000.00 DOLLARS."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">I
have copies of all the work I sent to you, which I will gladly post.
$100.00 per page is my rate for original art sold. Also if you have the
unpublished art I would like that sent back to me, then I would correct
the amount.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR MORGAN WELBORN TO SHOW THAT
HE DELIVERED 30+ OR 35+ PAGES OF ART AND THAT WE PUBLISHED AND OR SOLD
30+ OR 35+ PAGES OF HIS ART."</span><br /> <br /><br /><b style="color: blue;">That's true, except I can show all the art sent to you from my files.</b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"HIS AGREEMENT FROM THE VERY BEGINING WAS THAT THE ART WOULD BECOME THE PROPERTY OF OUR COMPANY."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Yup. But not the money you owe for the sale of my art. Which was established part of the agreement.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"Morgan
has been making flase claims for over 10 years that are absolutely not
the way things were. I have attached links to documentation concerning
this situation."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><b style="color: blue;">According to you...</b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"* COPY OF THE CONTRACT(LINK)"</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Thanks for this, it was extremely helpful.</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">* CHECK FOR $50.00 SIGNED BY MORGAN WELBORN (LINK)</span><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">* MORGAN WELBORN'S $6000.00 CLAIM TO THE BBB (LINK)</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">"* COPIES TO VERIFY THE SELLING PRICES OF THE ART (LINK)."</span><br style="color: red;" /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">Don't see any relevant information on this photo, plus I only see 13 invoices, where's the others, and which art was sold?</span></b><br /><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">"As for the "dozens" of people that he claims that this has also happened to.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">Brainstorm/
Vamperotica was actively publishing new material from 1993 to 2004.
during that time we published more that 100 COMICS AND MAGAZINES, we
worked with OVER 300 FREELANCERS and PAID OUT THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS to
those freelancers and we have the 1099 FORMS and cashed checks to prove
it.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">There were several cases where I canceled contracts and fired
freelancers for late, incomplete or unacceptable work. If someone has a
problem then they can CONTACT ME DIRECTLY over at </span><a href="http://www.vamperotica.com/" style="color: red;" target="_blank" title="www.Vamperotica.com">www.Vamperotica.com</a><span style="color: red;">, I will look into the situation and see if it merits us working something out.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">However,
if you have publicly lied or defamed me, my publications or my
companies, or want to handle things like a message board Troll then I
will not be likely to deal with them.</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">-Kirk Lindo</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">Morgan
Welborn is not being truthful with what he is claiming. Out of the FIVE
questions that he was asked, he answered ONE of them accurately. HIS
NAME!</span><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><br style="color: red;" /><span style="color: red;">He LIED on Kirk Lindo about the amounts of work he did
and what he may have been owed. He LIED about him to THE COURTS IN HIS
SMALL CLAIM, He LIED about him to THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU..."</span><br /><br /><br /><b><span style="color: blue;">According to Kirk Lindo. Who is ILOVEMYCOMICS, and created a blog to counter my every claim acting as an anonymous fan.</span></b></div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-15656141935910643232012-05-28T22:43:00.001-04:002012-05-28T22:43:14.262-04:00PSA on Rick Onley by Richard Caldwell<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: 10pt;"></span></span><br />
<div>
<strong>(Public Service Announcement)</strong></div>
<div>
Over
the last decade, Rick Olney has made a name for himself. He has
attempted such ventures as writing and publishing, original art dealing,
event planning, and most notably convention show organizing and
promoting. The problem though, is that every one of his efforts has
ended with broken promises, highly suspect financial transactions,
outrageous claims and threats of litigation. He has painted himself into
a corner of infamy with notoriously commissioning unpaid art and using
and abusing the trust of others, burning artists, galleries,
journalists, fans, distributors and publishers alike with his cacophony
of lies and deceit. And he has developed a pattern, a method to his
madness. When the heat builds too intense and questions again start to
arise, he pulls a disappearing act (usually leaving a long trail of
bills unpaid in his wake), only to reprise later, elsewhere, with a new
game plan for striking it rich off the comics market.<br /> It is
well-documented that whenever one of his victims steps forward, Olney
immediately responds with thuggish threats, even in the face of court
orders. Owing tens of thousands of dollars is no skin off his bone,
evidently. Even more aggravating is his continued insistence that he is
in fact innocent of all charges, and the subject of some maniacal
internet smear campaign conducted by a handful of misinformed
individuals. Everyone following this slow-motion trainwreck is still
waiting eagerly to hear any plausible, rational, ethical, moral, or
legal defense in his favor. Or even an excuse by any person other than
his wife for his actions, past or present.<br /> My problem, is that he's
doing it again, and I for one am sick of allowing the cancer to spread
thusly. I actually do love the comic book medium, and fear knowingly
that it has too much of an inferiority complex as well as continuing
identity issues to allow a known charlatan like Olney to bring about its
end any quicker. Olney is not the victim of bad PR, he <span style="font-style: italic;">generates</span> bad PR, for the entire industry, and is no more the victim of gross misunderstandings than was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ponzi" target="_blank">Charles Ponzi</a>.
I am fully aware that this is not the first such effort, and for such a
cause in particular, but I'm just hoping to catch everyone else up to
speed, more than anything.</div>
<div>
Let's examine this <a href="http://www.aboutheroes.com/?p=12557#comment-3004" target="_blank">comment</a>
made recently by Olney himself regarding mass objections to his
conniving his way onto a seemingly ill-researched podcast program:</div>
<div>
<span style="font-style: italic;">"Hmmm…
interesting. Looking forward to the next episode where perhaps I’ll be
able to talk about a few of these misconceptions and lies that seem to
have gained a foothold about me. More importantly though that its
pointed out that education and comic books don’t always go hand-in-hand.
Sometimes people with an opinion, negative or positive, use the
Internet to express themselves. I’ve never lied or misrepresented
myself. Never."</span><br style="font-style: italic;" /><br /> Now while the
podcast in question proved to be an attempt at entrapment, the persons
running the program were clearly, equally if not moreso interested in
accumulating higher ratings. Nonetheless, for Olney to presume that his
many doubters are uneducated is folly enough. For anyone to insist upon <span style="font-style: italic;">never</span> lying is just absurd. The statement between those two statements is what I wish to challenge.</div>
<div>
The first real public outcry against his lies was made through the <a href="http://www.unscrewedcomic.com/content.php?page=Letter_to_Comics_Professionals" target="_blank">unscrewed website</a>,
which was begat specifically in response to his actions and with the
intentions of warning the creative community about Rick Olney and any
others of his ilk that should happen to pop up. Famed artist and
storyteller <a href="http://adistantsoil.com/?s=Rick+Olney" target="_blank">Colleen Doran</a>,
who has no enemies on Earth, has well served as a spokesperson for
creator rights, and with Olney himself serving no small roll as catalyst
in this.</div>
<div>
Journalist <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/?s=Rick+Olney" target="_blank">Rich Johnston</a>
has famously focused on cornering Olney at every step. Though Johnston
is often disregarded as a gossip proliferater, if his stories were so
groundless then he likely would've lost a great many libel and slander
lawsuits over the years, which obviously has never been the case. In
addition to Johnston's Bleeding Cool, the two largest comic book news
sites, <a href="http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=search&q=Rick+Olney&cof=FORID%3A9&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank">comic book resources</a> and <a href="http://www.newsarama.com/common/Search/new_search.php?cx=partner-pub-1894578950532504:jfha7e1amgi&cof=FORID:10&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=Rick+Olney&sa=Search&sa=Search" target="_blank">newsarama</a>,
both seem to take as given that Olney is criminal in his acts. These
involve multiple editors with sizable staffs, all apparently part of the
same conspiracy of the unintelligent hellbent on accusing Olney of
anything under the sun. The same goes for Heidi MacDonald and <a href="http://www.comicsbeat.com/?s=Rick+Olney&submit.x=0&submit.y=0" target="_blank">the Beat</a>. Other big league journalists and commentators who Olney has personally rubbed the wrong way are the great <a href="http://tonyisabella.blogspot.com/2011/08/return-of-vile-thing.html" target="_blank">Tony Isabella</a> (one of the nicest guys in the world) and <a href="http://troublewithcomics.com/post/9675024064/my-experience-with-rick-olney" target="_blank">Alan David Doane</a>. And while <a href="http://z8.invisionfree.com/Superdickery_Forum/ar/t4216.htm" target="_blank">this</a>
is a good account of the facts of Olney's troubles up to several years
ago, cautionary tales have continued on a range of excellent and well
researched blogs such as <a href="http://iblogalot.com/category/rick-olney/" target="_blank">iblogalot</a>, and <a href="http://kesslerkomics.com/15783/bleeding-cool/rick-olney-trying-to-organise-veterans-day-weekend-comic-con-in-new-york/" target="_blank">kesslerkomics</a>, and <a href="http://www.tasteslikecomics.com/tag/rick-olney/" target="_blank">tasteslikechicken</a>. Forums have tackled the issue as well, debating and sharing details and spreading the word, from the <a href="http://www.606studios.com/bendisboard/showthread.php?194906-Rick-Olney-Still-does-not-pay-freelancers-or-anyone-else" target="_blank">606</a>, to <a href="http://absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?t=74827" target="_blank">absolutewrite</a>, to <a href="http://www.comiccollecting.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=1795" target="_blank">comiccollecting</a>, to <a href="http://www.comicscommunity.com/boards/tommandrake/?frames=n;read=7023&expand=1" target="_blank">comicscommunity</a>. Even <a href="http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?156451-Rick-Olney-Fibber-or-Mega-Giganta-Fibber" target="_blank">cbr</a>, again. Warnings continue to appear via devantART such as <a href="http://forum.deviantart.com/entertainment/books/1714143/" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://comicbookinker1971.deviantart.com/journal/Don-t-involve-yourself-with-Rick-Olney-268101203" target="_blank">here</a>
as well. And while unscrewed has unfortunately been plagued by spammers
and lack of proper attention from its founders, others have stepped in
to help fill that void. On <a href="http://rickolney.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blogspot</a>, on <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/rick-olney" target="_blank">tumblr</a>, on <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/rickolney" target="_blank">twitter</a>, and on <a href="http://rickolney.typepad.com/blog/2012/03/warning-rick-olney.html" target="_blank">typepad</a>. He even earns special mention on the <a href="http://theofficialguidetodeadbeats.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">new official guide to deadbeats in comics</a>
blog. But surely these dozens upon dozens of persons (who are at least
smart enough to read and write and type and put together a website or
blogger) are a small fraction of the online public perspective. What
does <a href="http://www.whatdoestheinternetthink.net/?s=rick%20olney" target="_blank">the rest of the internet</a> really think of the self-promoting hack? It's not looking too good, states the jury.</div>
<div>
I myself even spoofed the man here at <a href="http://www.newcomicsday.com/ncd/2012/04/meet-the-new-executive-director-of-the-cbldf/" target="_blank">New Comics Day</a>. But in the interest of full disclosure, by all means feel free to read Olney's own blogs for yourself. <a href="http://sequentialsoul.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">Sequentialsoul</a>
is his place for trash-talking those who have been hurt or robbed by
him. Nobody is allowed to comment there, of course. But in the top left
you can report the blogs to google for abuse. But everybody needs to
turn their shoulder to him, indefinitely. Cut him off and cut him out.
If he turns up on forums, on facebook or twitter or myspace or whatever,
block his account. If someone gets blocked enough the admins will
remove them altogether. Additionally, I'd ask other media outlets to
pull back on any more stories about Olney, as the attention whore only
seems to see bad publicity as still being publicity. And, should he ever
have the balls to actually show his face at a convention anywhere, he
has to go to the bathroom sometime...</div>
<div>
Rick Olney, you are a
villain, and we are all watching you. Enough is enough is enough. When
pacifists are crusading against you, then something is incredibly rotten
in Denmark. Go back to McDonalds and leave everybody alone.</div>
</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-68281116570719039672011-12-31T17:06:00.000-05:002011-12-31T17:06:58.428-05:00Nicholas Mowdy/ Snickers19510 - Scammer - Fake<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">From Bleeding Cool.com - Mark Allen Haverty exposes a new scam artist selling reproductions from professional artists on ESTY.com as original prints.<br />
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The whole story is here: <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/31/meet-nick-m-aka-snickers19510-aspiring-artist-rob-granitostyle/">http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/12/31/meet-nick-m-aka-snickers19510-aspiring-artist-rob-granitostyle/</a><br />
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These idiots never realize that people who buy that type of art know what they are buying most of the time, and always get caught.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-14143269033206838932011-07-21T09:01:00.000-04:002011-07-21T09:01:57.395-04:00It's been quiet the past few weeks.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">I think that's a good thing. On a side note, I have not had any complaints from anyone, well anyone who wants to document it here, since this blog started.<br />
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Just remember, If you say nothing, the bad guys win. And they are not only cheating you but others as well.<br />
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I have never heard of anyone not getting work over claiming money owed or being ripped off and angry about it.<br />
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With so many fly by night publishers springing up recently, wouldn't you like to know if they have ripped off people in the past, or if an artist takes the money and run.<br />
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- Morganza</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-356932225533509242011-07-05T14:51:00.000-04:002011-07-05T14:51:59.661-04:00Josh Hoopes is still on the prowl!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"> By <a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/07/05/josh-hoopes-pretends-to-be-own-ex-wife-to-scam-previous-victims/">Rich Johnston @ Bleedingcool.com </a><br />
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<blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">Bleeding Cool has been pursuing the comic industry con artist Josh Hoopes for quite some time now. Indeed, it’s become something of a calling. </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">His latest scam beggars belief however.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">He has taken people who has has previously successfully scammed – then targets them again. Using the identity of one “Beth Smith”, posing as his own ex-wife.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;">Josh wrote to one South African who he had scammed for $1500,<a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/04/29/scam-artist-josh-hoopes-is-back-posing-as-wizard-worlds-david-johnson/"> to pay for a non-existent contract with Wizard, DC and Marvel</a>, using a new identity, saying;</span><br />
<blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">hi, I hope you are well, the truth I am the ex-wife of Josh Hoopes. he is a very bad man and deserves to be in jail, this man and I have 4 children and they live with me, but Josh does not give the money to them, times are bad and I work for my children, so I know all of this man, I want to do a deal with you, I can make a xoom account with the name of josh and I sent the money from your account, I send you $ 900 xoom to your bank and then you send me my 400 dollars by western union, money is for my children, I can not do it directly but if I can use the method, you are left with 500, and sends me $ 400, . and then in two weeks I will send as much money from the other bank of this man, and you’re left with some of the money and send me the money elsewhere, is the only way to have the money for my children.</span></blockquote><span style="font-size: x-small;">Naturally if the “mark” had replied positively, that money would have been appeared in their bank account – and pulled out again, just as soon as the non-refundable Western Union payment had been made. In this case I was able to advise them of this scam and they were able to pull out in time.</span></blockquote></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-84178084701949831072011-06-16T10:10:00.001-04:002011-06-16T10:11:05.803-04:00The Rights of Writers - by Mark Fowler<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">An excellent blog about your rights and valuable advice to writers/ freelancers!<br />
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<a href="http://www.rightsofwriters.com/2011/04/agent-from-hell-and-top-six-scams.html">http://www.rightsofwriters.com/2011/04/agent-from-hell-and-top-six-scams.html</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-7743819455153107302011-06-12T22:41:00.000-04:002011-06-12T22:41:01.684-04:00Kirk Lindo gives lessons on TROLLING and Psychology of a DEADBEAT<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">Since May of 2011, a day after I posted my personal experience with Kirk Lindo <a href="http://morganza.deviantart.com/journal/40335662/">[The Darkside to Freelancing]</a> on Deviant Art, I have been bullied by an anonymous person claiming to have worked for Kirk Lindo who called himself "ILOVEMYCOMICS", he signed his name on the account JASON FULLER, but later changed it. Needless to say I later discovered this person to be Kirk Lindo himself.<br />
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Here is a man who thinks making anonymous attacks on myself is a professional way to conduct himself to promote a defense. For examples check these links:<br />
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<a href="http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40369425/">http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40369425/</a><br />
<a href="http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40376044/">http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40376044/</a><br />
<a href="http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40376705/">http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40376705/</a><br />
<a href="http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40456624/">http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40456624/</a><br />
<a href="http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40503830/">http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40503830/</a><br />
<a href="http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40557407/">http://ilovemycomics.deviantart.com/journal/40557407/</a><br />
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Why would a publisher pose as an anonymous fan of himself to make personal attacks and be overly obnoxious? It seems like Bullying tactics to get me to stop talking, or make Kirk Lindo to somehow be portrayed as the victim of my claims by questioning my ethics and putting me on the defense.<br />
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ILOVEMYCOMICS/ KIRK LINDO creates a new Blog <a href="http://ilovemycomics.blogspot.com/">http://ilovemycomics.blogspot.com/</a> just to lay claims against me and try to refute everything I have said. Take special note of his Trolling menu especially this one <a href="http://ilovemycomics.blogspot.com/p/how-to-handle-troll.html">[How to handle a Troll]</a> which shows how much thought Kirk Lindo put into this manifesto of trolling.<br />
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This tells you everything you need to know about Kirk Lindo as a person and how he thinks. This is the type of person you should never do business with.<br />
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How do I know ILOVEMYCOMICS is KIRK LINDO? I'm glad you asked, he signed up on a forum I used to frequent <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGRH7W8bNft624YlH6ZrcgSXRmkhRE879XOQecvJsgJpn-SUzUaFI-mGnWLEugZIgkkYKM8ALLCnGUAz7iO3Qxi5oDPu5zEl_w1YND29WSDO-dQLZDyG0hsKGU3_Jqr_nYyPq0UUXHo_4/s1600/Ilovemycomics_kirklindo_pj.png">[account]</a> Besides it being so obvious a stranger would take what I said so personally and go off like this. KIRK LINDO is a person who will do or say anything to anyone in his way. </div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-30008347237285576872011-06-01T06:52:00.001-04:002013-06-18T10:24:19.370-04:00PUBLISHER - RICK OLNEY - *DECEASED*<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
The following links are full of personal experiences/ first hand accounts.<br />
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<b><span style="color: #76a5af;">SOURCE(S):</span></b><br />
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<a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2009/06/27/hapy-birthday-rick-olney-happy-birthday-to-you/">BLEEDING COOL by RICH JOHNSTON 06-27-2009</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.unscrewedcomic.com/content.php?page=olney_thread_index">UNSCREWED! Page 1 by ADMIN 2006 to 2010</a><br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8357330115823173097.post-75700701377809721892011-05-23T02:57:00.002-04:002011-06-01T05:45:21.809-04:00NEAL ADAMS - STOLEN ART!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/05/22/10000-of-stolen-neal-adams-art/">FROM BLEEDING COOL/ RICH JOHNSTON</a><br />
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<blockquote>Yesterday at the Big Apple Comic Con, an envelope of original artwork belonging to Neal Adams was lifted off his table. Below, see scans of the pieces in the stolen envelope. A police report has been filed but please check the image below in case you see any work on sale anywhere…</blockquote><br />
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