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Re: Silent Razor

Posted By: MACK!
Date: SAT, 6/7/03, 10:09 a.m.

In Response To: Re: Silent Razor (otis)

: Whoo thanks. Nice to read something freindly in the midst
: of this bizarre situation...

: And thanks for helping me to understand. I'm quite geeked
: out the comics I love too. Trust, I'll be looking for
: trade paperbacks of "Kabuki" as soon as I
: can scam up some bling...

Hi Otis,

Welcome to our message board. I'm glad to hear that you will take a look at my books.
I'll take you at your word about not doing anything as a jab at my stuff.

I know that everyone learns and is inspired by others and often we as artists build on that. I take my inspiration from many places. But in my work, whenever I conscously apply the inspiration from someone else, I credit that source in a list of acknowlegdements in the back of my own books. There were some recent high profile projects that were brought to my attention that had appeared to be borrowing from my work. Which in one way is fine. I sort of enjoy seeing a ripple effect. But it is nice if the borrower credits the source. And if they don't borrow in a way that attempts to hijack the original source material: IE: Use names from main characters in the same context and situations as the source material. (For instance, anyone is free to do a space opera that borrows from the themes of Kurosawa, but if they also name a robot R2-D2, they are no longer just doing a space opera that borrows themes from Kurosawa like Star Wars did, they are also blatantly hijacking a character from Star Wars).

In the midst of this discussion about a very high profile project using the same names, situations, and same context as in my own work, those of us discussing this became sensitive to additional sightings appearing to be of this nature, and someone forwarded me a link to your stuff and it sort of got thrown into the discussion.
Thanks for stating your perspective and intentions in such a polite and respectful way.

I wish you the best of luck with your endeavers.

Best,
David

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