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Swipe File: PJ Holden And SFX's Comics Heroes (UPDATE)

Published Wed, 17 Mar 2010 10:41:00 -0500

Last updated Mon, 08 Jul 2019 03:42:34 -0500

This is a piece of Rogue Trooper fan art that 2000AD and Dynamite artist PJ Holden drew for personal use online, coloured by Steven Denton.

And these are the fridge magnets that come free with the first issue of SFX's Comics Heroes magazine that has been Bleeding Cooled before.

With PJ Holden's image to the left. Unpaid, uncredited, no permission asked.

A few flurried emails later with apologies accepted – the art was via 2000AD and some fan art slipped through. No explanation as to exactly how right now though…

UPDATE: In the comments, Emperor adds a smoking gun, with 2000AD editorial saying back in February;

We sent them a vast selection of classic images to use, painstakingly collected after approval was passed by Tharg himself. They somehow managed to use hardly any, and what they did get printed up…god only knows where they got those images from.

Nobody came back to us for approval which is very dissapointing; another opportunity missed.

More swipes have been identified, the Hammerstein picture (bottom left) swiped from small press artist Chris Askham;

Jesus.

That Hammerstein pic is lifted right off my website!

Lawyers!!!

UPDATE UPDATE: I understand that this has been designated human error on 2000AD's part, a PR assistant at Rebellion Publishing 's mistake, the artists in question have been contacted, apologies made and accepted, and credits will be given in a subsequent issue. Glad to see everything worked out.

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