Subject: Re: Cartoon "Improved" |
From: tfmo@christmasghost.com |
Date: 10/25/09, 00:08 |
To: "Barrett Brown" <barriticus@gmail.com> |
And you still don't get it. You seem like an intelligent person, how can
you be missing something so blatantly obvious and so repeatedly explained?
If you had sent me that picture with praises written all over it, I WOULD
STILL BE PISSED AND IT WOULD STILL BE WRONG. You defaced my artwork and
posted it on a public website without my permission. Whether it's legal
or not, do you honestly think you are in the right on this?
What exactly was your intention in all of this, Barrett? You send me an
insulting e-mail where you have defaced my artwork, calling it an
improvement, then you're surprised when I tell you that I'm not all agog
to be noticed? Then you post your bastardized version of my work, without
my permission, and expect me to be okay with it or something? In a post
where you describe me as "crazy" in the very title? Then you continue to
mock me when I request you take my artwork down.
Dude, if you want attention, don't you think there are better ways of
getting it than THIS? If you wanted to have a debate on some subject, ANY
subject, you could have simply ASKED. If you wanted to "parody" my work,
you could have drawn your own damn picture. As I said in the posts, IT'S
NOT THAT HARD. I spent more time looking for a good font for
Football-head than I did drawing any part of this thing, or coming up with
the jokes. Semi-circle for the head, dots for the eyes, angled line for
the nose and a misshapen box for the mouth. Add a lame joke and you have
a cartoon.
Or is this what you had in mind to begin with, but now you're bored and
want to move on? That's YOUR hang-up, not mine. I've made a very simple
request; take down my art. If you want to redraw it, then do so. Draw
your own picture and take my name off the bottom. I don't want my name
shown in anyway as contributing to the creation of any work you do. Draw
your own picture, use your own name. Write your own script. Dress all
the characters up as KISS. Give Chuckie a halo and everyone else devil
horns. Dress them all up as KKK. Have them all running around naked. Do
whatever the hell you want TO YOUR OWN WORK. But do not DREAM that you
have ANY justification, morality, ethic, or professionalism to do so to MY
WORK.
If Charles has a problem with my cartoon, then by all means tell him to
grow a pair and talk to me HIMSELF. I'm obviously not that hard to find.
I put my e-mail on every post I make and links to my website, where I have
more contact information.
Your post that I was the one with the potential lawsuit, my apologies, I
misread it. It looked like you were implying you were going to sue me.
And in all likelihood, there is little I can legally do to force you to
take down my artwork. But do you really think that ripping me off and
vandalizing my artwork gives you ONE SHRED of credibility? Do you think
doing such a thing actually improves your standing in the community, on
either side of the fence?
Do you think this makes you look like anything more than a petty little
creep? Ripping off an unknown to get attention? Responding to requests
that you respect my work and take it down by posting it three more times?
I've read a few of your articles. I disagree with nearly everything you
have written, but it IS well written. A professional writer, reduced to
THIS?
Sad. Very damn sad, Barrett. Why don't you get the attention you need
with your own talent, instead of ripping of mine?
Take that bastardized version of my artwork off your site.
Picasso-
No one's threatening to sue you. I was telling you to address any further
legal demands you care to make to my lawyer, as I don't deal with that
sort
of thing. If you'd like her contact info, I'll give it to you. If you
don't,
that's fine. If you want to keep wasting your time by writing comments
about
how I "need" to take down my parody of your misguided comic strip (I do
think the art itself is nice, by the way), that's cool, too. But I'm not
going to discuss this with you further because I have no reason to do so.
Thanks,
Barrett Brown
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:16 AM, <tfmo@christmasghost.com> wrote:
I think you were done quite some time ago, Barrett. I don't mind
hearing
a differing opinion, but I take exception to someone out of the blue
butchering a copy of my work, then toss it back at me and saying they've
"improved" it. As I said before, if you disagree with my opinion, feel
free to e-mail me or leave a comment. But don't alter another artist's
work and expect them to be amused.
Okay, I think we're done here.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:53 AM, <tfmo@christmasghost.com> wrote:
Really. Then why don't you try this little experiment: Take any
article
your boss at Vanity Fair or HuffPo has written, rewrite it to "make
fun
of" him, then send it back to him and call it an "improvement."
Let's see if your "parody" argument helps you keep your job.
Welcome to reality. And the unemployment line.
This is what's known as "parody." I didn't damage any of your
"property"
-
rather, I altered a downloaded copy of your work as a means by
which
to
make
fun of you, then I sent you that new version as a joke. You'll be
happy
to
learn that your original cartoon is safe and sound in your own
possession.
Welcome to America.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 9:24 AM, <tfmo@christmasghost.com> wrote:
Well, how else do you describe it when someone takes part of your
property
and scribbles all over it against your wishes? If I were to take
one
of
your articles, remove your writing and replace it with my own
opinion,
would that not be much the same thing? Or if I went to your house
and
did
that on your kitchen wall?
If you have an objection to my cartoon, there's a couple of handy
little
doo-dads called "e-mail" and "comment box." Feel free to voice
your
opinion in either or both, but do not assume that because more
people
know
your name than mine that you have any authority to alter my work.
You
are
not my editor. You are not my boss. You are not my coworker.
You
are
not my partner. If you want me to draw a cartoon, then we can
discuss
content and fees. Otherwise, kindly keep your hands to yourself.
Sincerely,
TFMo
"Vandalizing?" Wow.
On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:21 AM, <tfmo@christmasghost.com>
wrote:
Thanks. But I prefer it as is, as do people whom I hold in
much
higher
esteem. Perhaps your time might be better utilized by coming
up
with
your
own cartoon, instead of applying unsolicited, unnecessary, and
unwanted
edits to mine.
Or perhaps you could use your influence as a writer for such
media
as
Vanity Fair and Huffington Post to actually spread a little
truth
about
the blatant deception being committed by the White House and
members
of
the various media, instead of dickering around with a largely
unknown
amateur political cartoonist/commentator's work?
I'm not sure what artistic circles you associate with, but
where I
come
from, vandalizing another artist's work without their prior
explicit
permission is a grave insult. Please bear this in mind the
next
time
you
decide to "improve" someone else's creation.
Sincerely,
TFMo