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The Plagiarist’s Guide to Email Exchanges

Allan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:53:27 +0000

London cartoonist Jamie Smart illustrates his recent email exchange with a company ripping off one of his designs. There’s certain defining characteristics in these interactions, such as the plagiarist claiming to do you a favour by giving you exposure, or as I recently had myself, The Phantom Technician.
(Click the image above for the full cartoon.)

Happy New Household Charge

Allan — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 11:06:48 +0000

(This is an ’06 cartoon of mine which I came across the other day and reworked. I think it’s quite apt.)

Merry Christmas! Here’s a Santa to colour!

Allan — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 11:18:18 +0000

You might like to print this Santa Claus out for a little one to colour in! Click the image for a higher resolution version.

Sports cartoon!

Allan — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:55:22 +0000

Here’s a cartoon I completed for Safety Storage Systems in Limerick for their dugout display. It’s been blown up and the chaps are sitting inside on of their dugouts, on the roof!

Academic thesis cartoon

Allan — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:42 +0000

A recently completed commission for inclusion in a thesis.

Cartoon: On YouTube.

Allan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:29:26 +0000

Times & Irish Daily Mail “The Scream” cartoons: this actually happens all the time.

Allan — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 10:44:24 +0000

Gerard Scarfe in the Sunday Times

Graeme Keyes, Irish Daily Mail. (Both images via Fleet Street Blues)

You might think this is a rip-off, but it happens all the time, and both cartoons are riffing off another work entirely. Only last week there were two very similarily themed cartoons in the Irish Times and the (London) Times, and similar themes between these controversial Steve Bell and Martyn Turner cartoons.

I think it’s highly unlikely the similarity is anything but coincidence. Cartoonist and editorial cartoon syndicator Daryl Cagle gets hundreds of cartoon submissions every day, and inevitably the same tropes come from different artists. Cagle’s response? He bunches them all together on the site to show up the artists!

Galway Races

Allan — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:41:11 +0000

Any tips?

Bully MP threatens to sue granny for drawing a cartoon of him | Political Scrapbook

Allan — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 16:07:30 +0000

Bully MP threatens to sue granny for drawing a cartoon of him | Political Scrapbook.

Art Appreciation

Allan — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 19:10:25 +0000

Another cartoon from the group show Nude [blatant exhibitionism] showing in the Kenny Gallery for the rest of the month as part of the Galway Arts Festival.