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Conman Josh Hoopes Takes New Name Of Marco, And Sells Non-Existant Gil Kane And Frank Miller Art

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Comic book industry conman Josh Hoopes is using a new name. A new address. New details. And this conman of comics has managed to con bigtime art dealer Mike Burkey – for a second time. We reported last year how …

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Leverage Turns Josh Hoopes Into A Work Of Fiction

Posted on January 14, 2013 by Rich Johnston

Leverage was a TV show, recently cancelled, that was basically a cross between The A-Team and Not A Penny More Not A Penny Less, Robin Hood meets Hustle, that kind of thing.  And created by John Rogers, also known for …

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Did Josh Hoopes Scam Stratum Comics And An Unknown Artist, Posing As Tucker Doud?

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Earlier today we ran another example of Josh Hoopes using his Tucker Doud pseudonym on DeviantArt. And then we googled it further. Oh dear. In July this year, Stratum Comics published a comic book, Threat #1 by Xeric Award Winners …

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Josh Hoopes From Scamming Comics To Scamming Games

Posted on December 28, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Josh Hoopes is a con man operating in the comics industry. Over many years, we have covered his attempts to con publishers by taking assignments for small amounts of money, hire artists to do the work for him for large …

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Josh Hoopes Scams Two More On DeviantArt

Posted on December 1, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Posing as Greg Garwood, Josh Hoopes has scammed two more people. Jessica writes; I posted on the DeviantArt forum job section enlisting a comic artist for a short story.  Many replied, but he was the most persistant and cordial.  I’d …

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Wasting Josh Hoopes’ Time Over His Wizard Scam

Posted on November 12, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Special thanks to Alistair, Bleeding Cool writer, who strung this along so much. Bleeding Cool had repeatedly covered the story that comic industry conman Josh Hoopes was scamming young creators for hundreds, thousands of dollars, by posing as a non-existing Wizard …

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Josh Hoopes Continues To Scam People With Fake Todd McFarlane Sketches, As “Greg Garwood”

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Rich Johnston

We ran a very similar story a few weeks ago. But he doesn’t seem to have stopped. Masquerading as one “Greg Garwood“, Josh Hoopes is continuing to approach dealers trying to sell sketches (below) purporting to be by Todd McFarlane. …

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Comics Conman Josh Hoopes Moves Wizard Scam To ConceptArt.Org

Posted on October 25, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It was pulled from People Per Hour after Wizard Entertainment complained. Now it seems that Josh Hoopes has set up the same scam at ConceptArt.org, again posing as someone called Greg Garwood and providing an e-mail address too… Remember, this …

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Josh Hoopes Tried The Wizard Scam Again, Posing As Greg G

Posted on October 23, 2012 by Rich Johnston

The following piece was posted onto the Freelance site People Per Hour. Wizard Magazine seeking out new comic ideas for publication around Christmas As we are just starting to release info regarding this new event we won’t be advertising in …

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When Josh Hoopes Stole From His Place Of Work… And From Artist Pasquale Qualano

Posted on October 20, 2012 by Rich Johnston

In our many investigations of the comic indusry conman Josh Hoopes, we discovered that he was working at a saw mill in Sacramento, California, appropriately ACME Saw. However, it appears now that he is no longer working there, thought through …

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The Todd McFarlane And Art Adams Fakes By Josh Hoopes

Posted on October 18, 2012 by Rich Johnston

I had to be sure these were fakes. They were, but I had to be sure. And now I have confirmation from both Todd and Art that they are complete and utter forgeries. These are the so-called sketches by Todd …

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“Greg Garwood” – The New Pseudonym Of Josh Hoopes

Posted on October 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

It’s the same old story, but it’s a new name. Josh Hoopes, famed comic industry conman, is using a new pseudonym, to accompany Ron Runstrom, Lalit Kumal and David Johnson, namely one Greg Garwood. I am aware of one specific …

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Have You Been Screwed By Josh Hoopes? Get In Touch.

Posted on September 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Have you been screwed buy Josh Hoopes? Did he pose as you to get commissioned work? Did you hire him, based on falsified credentials? Did he deliver art from another artist pretending it was his? Did he hire you as …

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How Josh Hoopes Gets Away With It, Time After Time

Posted on September 14, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here’s the story on one man who is out the relatively small sum of $375 to comic industry conman Josh Hoopes. 1)Paypal sounded very helpful at first, then declined to refund our money. Apparently Hoopes convinced them that he provided …

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The Josh Hoopes E-Mails

Posted on September 7, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Here are some emails, from Gary Madden who has been trying to recruit an artist to do some character design work and storyboards for his company. He has been approached by infamous comics scam merchant, Josh Hoopes, using his Joshua …

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This Artist Has Been Scammed By Josh Hoopes. They Just Don’t Know It Yet. (UPDATE)

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Rich Johnston

This is the artwork that a publisher, who had been scammed by Josh Hoopes, received. The problem is, we don’t know who actually drew it. Whoever it is, has not been paid for their work, and may be expecting someone …

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Josh Hoopes Strikes Again

Posted on August 22, 2012 by Rich Johnston

For the last decade, I have been running stories about Josh Hoopes. A Sacramento man who has systematically conned big guys and little guys out of money. His standard scam is offer his art skills at a very  low price …

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Josh Hoopes Alert At RED – Beware Of “Joshua John”

Posted on July 26, 2012 by Rich Johnston

Josh Hoopes is again trying to launch a series of scams across the comics industry, to try and rip off both new artists and small publishers. Over the years he has easily scammed a six figure sum, though I have …

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