A few words in defense of Jack Kirby, Sal Buscema, Irv Novick, and other anonymized artists

[scottedelman]

I was reading the December 12 issue of the New York Observer when I spotted something that irked me.

Now understand, finding something in the Observer that offends me isn’t at all unusual. Not an issue goes by when I don’t discover something to offend me in the salmon-colored pages of this snide, smarmy rag, which encapsulates just about

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[stevegreen]

I agree totally. There was similar disquiet in the sf community in 2000 when the Turner Prize nominees included Glenn Brown, with a blatant rip-off of a 1973 paperback book cover. The original was painted by Tony Roberts, but the same 'artist' has also appropriated imagery from work by Chris Foss.

[scottedelman]

Thanks for that link. I find the Turner Prize chairman's weak defense helpful, and will likely quote it over on my site, where people are defending the artist:

http://www.scottedelman.com/2011/12/17/a-few-words-in-defense-of-jack-kirby-sal-buscema-irv-novick-and-other-anonymized-artists/

Feel free to jump in if you'd like!