Bleach Ripped Off by American Comic Artist Nick Simmons

The cops in the bottom pics also look like Jin-roh knock-offs.

Omg sue this fagg makin bleach look bad!! fukking copypasta FTL!

Well, what do you expect from a american?

90% of what they write, draw or put on TV is ripped off from stuff in other countries.

I laugh at anyone who thinks most of the disney movies and reality shows are orginal. Like all americans the creaters simply ate other people work and squeezed out shit from their assholes.

That is.. stupidy easy to see.

Another bullshit artist like Yuki Suigetsu that plagarized Inoue Takehiko's Slam Dunk for that shitty Flower of Eden before.

...and being part of the Simmons clan does not exempt him from being called bullshit. He must be SATSUGAI'ed!

At first I'd say Greg Land is worse, then again, at least he drew some of his own stuff.

Anybody else see End of Evangelion on the 12th picture?

Wondered what this was about, then I saw "Nick Simmons" and no further explanation was needed. It's not even like he's paying homage to certain manga scenes that you will see in stuff at times, either. They're complete fucking ripoffs, with the only difference often being palette swaps of characters. Hell, the art style changes depending on what he is ripping off in that particular drawing.

Seriously, how has nobody noticed this before and not taken any sort of action? With how blatant it is, it shouldn't be that hard.

People are seriously stupid. Copying a popular manga art style that much. If you want to use the art, fine, but dont copy everything else like poses and shit.
Also, to the dumbasses who hate America but are actually americans themselves and tell their bitch friends that they are actually part asian themselves and cry themselves to sleep wishing they were...get a fucking life. Everyone hates america cause we kick everyones ass and we're a free fucking country. And DA is full of legit people and little assholes like this guy that steal those peoples work. I hope he gets fucked in the ass while in prison.

Haha, what an idiot...

I was going to make the point that it may be an instance(s) of a "shout out" rather than plagirism, but this is clearly just a rip off festival.

okay, first of all, I don't see why this is a big deal.
Kubo was obviously inspired by the designs of this comic, however, we don't know for sure if the storyline was stolen or anything. You can make any two characters look alike if you have them in the same pose...
though kenpachi and shinji have crazy resemblances to their counterparts.
everyone is inspired by everybody. might as well get bleach and naruto in trouble for using DBZ as a main base for anime...
has a second form, bankai/nine tailed fox, energy blasts, shunpo, etc.

I hope this guy gets sued. I hope this guy gets sued so hard that it gets national media attention and not only exposes him and his publishers for allowing this to go on, but brings more attention to Bleach and other worthy manga.

He thinks being American and Kubo being Japanese means he's safe? Keep dreaming. Maybe Daddy will have enough money to settle the millions of dollars settlement this better wind up in.

WTF ?!?!?!? lol

He should have stuck to making exercise videos like his dad, LOSER. LOL!!!

There seems to be a few comments arguing whether bleach is really all that good, all im saying is he should go back to zombie powder

Man he really has no shame does he? nor brain for that matter (how can you plagiarize one of the most read mangas?)

pic 12 pose is kinda acceptable by all the differences,but that finger pose was just fail

Well, at least he didn't name it Blitch.

Definitely get sued back and get smack hard

The very least is Kubo Tite has claimed he has admired Dragon Ball and stuffs like that. And I wouldn't say Kubo did plagiarised. Just look at the games/media/collectibles for Bleach. It's just damn original. Bankai/shikai/gotei 13/zero division/arrancars/shinigamis are his own content. It is really a masterpiece. Regardless the possible similiarieties.

Look back into "Incarnate" it has like? OMFGWTFBBQ 50-60% copies. So let's just say those successful ones had their ways =) And it makes their manga top notch/godly masterpiece *as repeated*

more pics here

http://community.livejournal.com/bleachness/446299.html

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Not that we dont see things like that on a DAILY basis, and yet this gets uber attention~ XD

He would of gotten away with it if just parody.Nick go back to art school man and make your own orginal characters or just stick to being a Fan artist.

America apparently sucks because a single teenager thought it would be nice to plagiarize a Japanese comic book.

I love you guys.

Heh... the plaid on the Grimjaw copy is just a tiled pattern. Apparently so called "comic artists" only need to use "copy | paste" and "fill" these days...

otoyomegatari art made me cream my panties.

Thing is, everybody copies off everybody but instead of calling it copying or plagiarism we call it inspiration... of course this only works when the difference amount more than the similarities. Though this guy really is just copying... i mean the artwork even looks like Kubo's. Oh and if you want to talk about plagiarism and the 'they' copied 'them' I would just like to say... Have you SEEN the shoujo manga/anime ideas?

"Please. You call parallel lines, ink spillage, and lack of backgrounds nice art? Also, Kubo is quite guilty of plagiarism himself. The ending of the Ichigo/Ulquiorra fight was almost exactly like the Yusuke/Sensui fight in YuYu Hakusho."

Kishimoto would then also be a plagiarist himself since he took the Spike vs Vincent on the train scene(cowboy Bebop) & used it 4 the Naruto vs Neji fight. I think the statment here is Like the Vanilla Ice incedent where he took Queen's song under Pressure & made Ice Ice Baby & called if orginal. Kubo really didn't rip off YuYu Hakusho. But you think about in some small way they all ripped off DBZ. In Short if 1's a plagiarist then all are plagiarists

sue him?? aint it copyright infrengment or w/e? its so fucking lame that they copy from jp stuff

Comerican qualityｗ

Bleach is one of the best mangas that i ever read... the story and the concept is very good...

Bleach is ghey

que asco como no tienes imaginacion solo te gusta copiar y hacerlo a lo chafa pero no me extrañana ge gente de tu pais hacer eso

HOLY S***,HE EVEN COPIED THE BACKGROUNDS!!!

Lol, I like how the plagiarized Bleach pages aren't even out for sale yet. So that makes him a pirate and a plagiarizer.

Ive read both pieces from this incarnation and its damn good, Ever heard the phrase "great Artists Steal" that what happend here.

Bah~ Bleach SUCKS, and it is just overrated >_<

nigguhh needs to die.
Plagiarism is just gay. Where's the originality nowadays!?
Yes yes, even though Kubo plagiarized a bit, it wasn't as much as 'this' douchebag's one... deary me...

WOW THE PLAGIARISED STUFF LOOKS MORE INTERESTING THAN BLEACH!

Similar once or twice,acceptable.
Original work that look like the original,still acceptable.
This guy...shitful of crap.I'd say him trying to claim all his plagiarism as homage is totally BS.No F&%@in homage takes whole images from the original to make your own.
(plagiarism is as a fact,a crime when the quality of the work copied follows closely to the original AND becomes a crime when the person doing the copying know's the action is wrong but continues, and the act infringes the copyright of the original author if it is done for the same purpose as the original work copied is used for,in this case for sales...thank you law studies)

coulda made his "own" manga

i hope he dies he fked the art up so badly and he left alot of the original up there even if u were stupid u would see the resemblance

I say we just don't buy his comics, and just whine about him and yea, he his art's not exactly that great, I seen better from throwing a squirrel into paint and see it running across a white floor. (I did do that and we got a rainbow squirrel running around now)

fuck this guy, stealing art from DeviantArt users...

Many americains are fat stupid boy pedo-tenga-fap.

It is no surprise...

This guy is a complete and utter dumbass for trying to claim his artwork as being a "homage" to Tite Kubo. Kubo should fucking trash this guy till he can't draw.

KISS my ASS

Here's one I found while checking out how bad the comic is http://yfrog.com/ehgreedlolj

That knockoff version of Orihime looks hotter than the original.

Sorry but some of you are just plain stupid.
So... As Bleach is unoriginal it's ok to be plagiarizing it and making money out of it??

Another thing, almost all shonens are "unoriginal" as you say...

Come on, i seen worst. much worst

a Singaporean ripping off Yotsuba.
http://www.drearyweary.com/stories.php

ugh MORON you can tell his art teachers were shit cause the FIRST thing they drill in your head in art school is Plagiarize and you are DONE the idea begin if it's second nature not to my the time you graduate then you won't do it when it could mean being sued

I've read somewhere that the publisher of this comic have stopped production of it so they can investigate, so at least THEY aren't morally bankrupt.

This is really ridiculous. To think no one would notice, especially when he's copying a manga with such a large fanbase! I thought before "At least his backgrounds are decent," But SURPRISE! Someone else draws those.

As an art major and as a person this makes me so ridiculously angry. There are people who genuinely work hard and study to improve so that MAYBE they can get a job doing something they love. Then a stupid shit like this comes along, get the chance to draw a comic because he has a famous daddy, and rips off the works of other people who worked hard to get where they are. Not only is it dishonest, it's insulting to honest hardworking artists everywhere. I hope he gets sued to Hell and back.

He could have just saved alot of time and just pasted actual images from different comics, magazines, and books. A page from naruto a page from playboy a page from batman a page from the law books that state the legality of plagarism. sounds like a best seller to me

I see that thies pictures are copied from bleach, and I see they are good for nothing, only lame imitations, heve nothing in common with original, I mean expression of emotions. It's not only they are copied but also hopless...double shame ;)

Last two pages doesn't seem plagarism more like "fair use" to me.

It's really not that easy to come up with something completely different.

Or, otherwise said: it's reasonable to come to similar images if you want to express similar things.

Maybe not on the level this artist did it though.

Its over 9000!!!

At least there's more backgrounds!

ichimaru jin and hirako smile reminds me of jack skellington. is bleach a ripped of too?

lol his work is actually cooler than the original he copied and pasted

Everyone is dumb to not notice he was not the illustrator but the write. Nam Kim is the illustrator and he is the one in hot water.

stupid americans

This isn't plagiarism.
With the exception of the Zaraki "rip off", all of the characters are painfully generic. The scenes shown are also very common, and taking poses from other artist's work is common practice. That's how we get the "iconic" flying poses, hero poses, and near every other part of any graphic novel (American, Japanese, Korean, etc.).

This guy probably used Bleach for reference (a bank of pictures used to see how things should look), and doesn't have access to anything else.

There are BLATANT SIMILARITIES in all art, this guy just has a character who looks like a popular one. I'm sure he'll try to change it, the editor will say no, and he'll just have to try again with the next project.

In its days, Rurouni Kenshin was copying exact frames from the X-men (the Omega Red chapters).
I love Kenshin, but having read the comics before, I couldn't help but notice...
Let's say illustrators from Japan and America are copying each other from time to time.

America is the new China

thats a fact.

this is the saddest and most pathetic thing i've seen today. for god's sake if you're going to rip something off at least let it be something good.

All we have to do is call it a remix, that way its not plagiarism. Thats how America works now!

Make it a little more obvious there, Nicky.

Bleach, Made in America.

Down right plagiarizing something like this is pretty tasteless. Anyways, too bad for Simmons here. The US is not quite as kind as China when it comes to such legal matters after all.

His DA page. Let him have it.

http://letsleepinggodslie.deviantart.com/

Did not realize Naruto was popular in the US. I've never watched it and one of my friends stopped watching after episode 412.

I can see VIZ's Space cannon locking on to his house now :P

C'mon America! Someone rip-off Kodomo No Jikan NOW!!

It's funny because commenters didn't care when other japanese artists copied photos and just drew on touhou costumes. "Everyone copies!" Oh but when an american s copying poses from a precious manga haha oh thats "Wrong". fucking weeaboos