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Swipe File: Dan Jurgens Vs Bill WIlliams And A $100 Batman

Comic book reader Aric Shapiro contacted Bleeding Cool to tell me,

I commissioned Dan Jurgens to draw a Batman piece. It was a pencil only piece.

But at Alamo Comic Con, this past weekend, one of his friends saw artist Bill Williams selling this.

I contacted Dan Jurgens who told me,

When you take another artist's work and pass it off as your own, especially while trying to make money off it, you are a hack. A complete and total hack. You're trying to benefit off another person's work, which makes you something of a thief.

By doing so publicly, you have forever labeled yourself as such.

Bill Williams, hack and thief.

In response, Bill Williams told me,

"He's right of course.

I offer a humble and honest apology for inking that Batman image. When someone asked about the drawing, I stated that I had inked a Dan Jurgens image. That information was not written on the page. That was one of the many mistakes I made that will not be repeated.

The page has been destroyed. And I think I'm done with conventions for a while."

It's rare that you get such a response, and that is to his credit. The question here might be, is inking a copy of pencils without the permission of the penciller and selling it – however you credit it – might well be problematic.

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