Nick Simmons: “My Bleach Homage is Not Plagiarism”
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 3, 2010 06:27 JST
- Tags: Bleach, Comparison, Copyright, Illustration, Photoshop, Plagiarism, USA
Noted plagiarist Nick Simmons has denied accusations that he shamelessly ripped off Bleach and other works in his “Incarnate” comic, saying that he was merely “inspired” into an act of “homage.”
His publisher felt inspired to suspend sales of the comic.
His official statement weasels thus:
“Like most artists I am inspired by work I admire. There are certain similarities between some of my work and the work of others. This was simply meant as an homage to artists I respect, and I definitely want to apologize to any Manga fans or fellow Manga artists who feel I went too far.
My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga. This is the nature of the medium.
I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other Manga titles. And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.”
Interestingly, he remarks on his DeviantArt profile that “If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.”
Words which may yet come back to haunt him, though thankfully he has a millionaire father to fall back on for legal expenses or compensation, more than can be said for most of the works he inspiredly traced.
Meanwhile the publisher of Incarnate has suspended the comic:
“We at Radical Publishing, Inc. and Radical Comics, Inc. are quite concerned to hear the news surrounding Nick Simmons’s Incarnate Comic Book.
We are taking this matter seriously and making efforts now to contact the publishers of the works in question in an effort to resolve this matter.
We have halted further production and distribution of the “Incarnate” comic book and trade paperback until the matter is resolved to the satisfaction of all parties.
Rest assured that Radical is taking swift action regarding this matter and will continue in its efforts to maintain the integrity and protect the intellectual property of artists throughout the world whose creative works are the bedrock of our Company and the comic book industry.”
All Bleach author Tite Kubo has been drawn into saying so far is that he is “more interested in the fact that Gene Simmons’ son is writing comics than all this.”
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I'm confused about how he even got published in the first place with his obvious lack of skill. Hell, he can't even trace neatly :/
Help from daddy I'm guessing?
pitiful........
sack o' shit
who the fuck is he trying to fool
IRONICALLY, he remarks on his DeviantArt profile that “If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.”
~fixed
BURN HIM!
NOBODY expects the internet inquisition!
Liar, Liar, Liar.. ^^
Yes bleach did inspired him, inspire him to trace that is
I believe the publisher is more to blame than he is. I mean they should have never let this go through in the first place.
what does emiya shirou and nick simmons have in common
comeon
guess
...
they trace on?
i still don't get it....
Not trying to stick up for the guy however, I just found this article interesting. I think everyone should take a look at this.
http://www.gottsu-iiyan.ca/gib/index.php/2010/03/02/double-standard
One such scene would be an homage. Multiple scenes makes it tracing by a talentless hack. Why the fuck do children of celebrities try to act like they have the level of talent of their parents in any chosen field that interests them?
The worst part is that he can afford to hire a real artist to try to publish his story legitimately. He's got something he wants to make into a comic and his father has enough money that simply hiring an artist full time to draw his son's comic is easily done if he looks under the couch.
Go here for more shit on Nick Simmons:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182292&highlight=nick+simmons [http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182292&highlight=nick simmons]
Check out what he said in is Facebook:
http://www.majhost.com/gallery/DookieTheArtist/WoW/1267130730668.png
he has a lot of nerve. probably caused more boycott
If he would of done this as a Internet Comic then it would of work for him if he started at the bottem like everyone else and said that this was a Bleach fan and then it would of flyed for him.
Too bad no one see it that way. It's clearly plagiarism.
Kubo should write him into the bleach manga and then make his death long and drawn out while also humiliating him.
If it were a homage, it'd be nearly the same style, and from one manga.
Regardless of what he says, this is downright plagiarism.
If he REALLY wanted to rip someone off, he should have made a parody. No one gets in troiuble for that
amen to that.
THAT is art? and THAT will be published? with THAT much crappy art? What the fuck were they thinking?
Low standards on the part of the publishing company... Or maybe his daddy's name carries some kind of weight... I dunno.
simmons fail
Moron. There's a difference between "homage" and "outright tracing" of another work.
Interestingly, he remarks on his DeviantArt profile that “If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.”
Talk about karma.
how shameless
"My inspirations reflect the fact that certain fundamental imagery is common to all Manga. This is the nature of the medium."
...ha ha? What the hell is this guy spurting out. All I hear from him are carefully chosen words deep-throated down to him by his lawyer(s). If certain fundamental imagery is "common" to all manga then it's sure as hell a surprise to see his work being SO COMMON in that respect whereas others who he directs as "...is common to all..." didn't even get the limelight label: plagiarism. If at least, in the beginning, he could have quoted, credited, or implied in his work that Incarnate was a `fundamental' [clone-]inspired art/story (where credit is needed[see vampire: the masquerade]). In the end, I could care less what happens to his crappy-ly-designed characters and artwork, but Tite Kubo definitely deserves credit where it is due especially if it wasn't for the fans, this sad plagiarizing game could've cheated its way into the system.
For all we know, this guy, who ever he is as I don't really keep track of who is related to KISS or the artist KISS... just know that they're famous, could've been smiling behind everyone's back with a winning face until this cum on him.
what pisses me off is this guy coul dhave used he money he paid to publish his chicken scratch/tracing to fly out to japan and get instructions from the pros( like most of us who draw our own shit would give our left nut for btw) great parenting gene! now we have to go detroit rock city on your kid and el directo is asshole with our love guns..thats a fuckin homage
You are nothing but a tief
what a crap
What a faggot.
SON I AM DISAPPOINT is wat i can see as epic > Nick Simmon the failed artist.
sheesh, i thought the hand thing was the only thing.but this is lame. its one thing to have a similar style or use a popular pose like the thumbs upor whatever. but if its all like this then its depressing, he needs to go become a history strongest disiple fan, as HARD work always surpasses talent.
just die you dick simmon :D lol
simmons u should die ripping of manga just fkin piss me off "i was inspired" pfft yeah right u traced it than just changed there hair or color and ur millionaire dad i hope u guys go bankrupt and die
DIE NICK DIE JUST DIE MAN UR ART SUKS
u are killing bleach and all the others and “If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.”
y dont u pay in cash maybe a check for 1mil from ur dad
ctrl + v
ctrl + c
lolKubo
Nick Simmons: “My Bleach Homage is Not Plagiarism”
Lawyers: "Yes it is."
I can just see Gene Simmons....
Son, I am disappoint. :(
of course it's not...really....who are you kidding?
Well, tbh I used to trace stuffs like him too...
..back when I was 7.
Only if he knows what is he talking about, then I am pretty sure the world would be a better place to live in.
Nick Simmons: "My Bleach is Homo not plagiarism" <----fixed
If he was smart he could have called it a doujinshi and sold it at Comickit?????
My two cents on this
If he did it with Kubo's are literally inspiring him(no tracing) he'd get the benefit of the the doubt in my book
but with the similarties being very obvious I will whole-heartedly say that this is plagiarism
I misspelled art
god dam typos >_O
If you gotta rip something off at least try to be original in some small way. there a huge difference between homage and having no talent!
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He wished he could trace as good as this...ive seen his deviant art works and it looks worse than a 8 year olds drawing... he mostly likely asked daddy to pay ppl to help him redraw his favourite mangas
rich plagiarist moron
Ugh... I read the panel with the guy in the skull mask talking... Too damn wordy and too forced...
Oh well... who cares about his "work" anymore.
The only thing I had on my mind was the phrase "ZOMG LOL PLAJURISM". And that, I must add, is not mine. =)
You know what would be ironic, what if he never drew or traced any of it? Another Lulz.
I don't know about you guys but I'm loving this controversy.
I would be the same as Kubo, wtf Gene Simmons' son is drawing my comics books whoa.
Gene Simmons has a son?
It's certainly possible, I just never noticed/heard/cared.
Saw this a bit ago. Hadn't heard his response, though. Fucking despicable, and the pictures in even this very article don't show the mind-blowing amount of tracing this asshole's done. Calling all of it a homage when he plainly thieved another's work is fucking shitty. And this guy was at Comic-Con, praising his new work.
“If you steal my artwork, you will pay. In cash.”
im not stealing your artwork.im just paying homage
yeah i hope he's going to get his ass sued to hell
He's a fan of the Bleach manga. Says it all, really.
a real fan wouldnt steal for his own comic if it's going to be published....
He's a fan.. Just a tasteless fan who calls other people's art his own.
Whoa and I mean Bill & Ted Excellent Adventures' "whoa", Nick Simmons, you are a freaking idiot.
I look at the preview of the Comic you tell me
http://www.radicalcomics.com/titles/comics/incarnate?series_id=8&issue_id=26 [http://www.radicalcomics.com/titles/comics/incarnate?series_id=8&issue_id=26] ?
Well...
His statement is what caught my eye...
(quote)
"I am a big fan of Bleach, as well as other - "Manga" - titles.
And I am certainly sorry if anyone was offended or upset by what they perceive to be the similarity between my work and the work of artists that I admire and who inspire me.”
When he actually said this on his FB page prior....
(quote)
"I never even heard of Bleach!" ~ "Who would name a comic after laundry detergent?"
~ which by the way, is no longer available now. - I knew this statement quote was worth saving...
I have no further comment to add concerning this ~
His actions, dual statements says it all, plus what the publisher did... the cessation of publication of his precious - "comic"
Instant Karma!
wow he is an asshole while bleach is not a good name incarnate sounds like a generic title that i would just pass up
Those statements are thought to be trolls.
I checked up on them, as otherwise I would have obviously included them.
That page was a troll. I thought that was well known by now.
“My Bleach Homage is Not Plagiarism”
Yes, yes it is, very much so.
so its not okay to draw similar image but it is okay to take the very same characters and make them have sex with underage children? IE doujins? Japan and all of its people are fucking stupid as fuck
You're straight up, one hundred percent retarded. Go drink some Bleach.
"You're straight up, one hundred percent retarded. Go drink some Bleach."
lol
Most doujin artist use their own art to draw the characters. They don't copy paste linearts and claim to be their own artwork. And what the hell lolis have to do with any of this?
Your not showing respect to a artist by tracing his work. Its the most disrepectful think you can do.
If there is any justice in the world, this guy will end up having to pay for this shit. Either with cash or by a pound of flesh.
Didn't he JUST say that he didn't "read magmas about detergent"?
It's amazing that he thought that no one would notice! What a jerk!
I get it, then I'll download one of the homages to incarnate.
You know the homages uploaded on rapidshare.
Those are homages too right?
Downloaded a KISS mp3 is not piracy, it's an homage to KISS records ^_^.
Let me be one of many to call this "homage" excuse bullshit.
Also, him having a DeviantArt is hilarious, considering most of the people on that site do nothing but plagiarize most if not all their work.
I take offense to this, since I host much of my work on DA due to little bandwith limitations
All Bleach author Tite Kubo has been drawn into saying so far is that he is “more interested in the fact that Gene Simmons’ son is writing comics than all this.”
Respect.
The experienced one always say the least. :3
That's a looooot of homages then. So if someone makes a homage to his comic then would they be making a homage to Bleach as well?
>> All Bleach author Tite Kubo has been drawn into saying so far is that he is “more interested in the fact that Gene Simmons’ son is writing comics than all this.”
Pretty much my feeling too.
At some parts it even looks like he didn't use his own line-art... What a lazy fart, he simply copied the raw image and added some colour...
The only place left to publish his work would be China
Nah, they'd go after him for plagiarizing THEIR Bleach ripoffs
China would refine him into a TRUE fraud. One that completely denies the likeness, instead of using a cheap "homage" excuse.
An homage would simply be a nod. A clever one at that. In one or two scenes that don't look like traced shop thievery.
He copied that excuse from China
It's a homage to China.
I admit, I lol'd.
Homage?!?!?! When the blue hell did a supposedly "original IP" become a bleach homage?
What, after you got busted?
Homage = Plagarism, by his books.
Why the hell didnt he made Bleach Doujins,its far more honest than that "homage" excuse.Doujinshi is legal.
when it first got outed that he stole bleach etc he said " i don't even what magma and bleach was" so how has it become an homage now
Homage at this point mean rip-off,no diffence now.
Of course he wouldn't admit it. Because once he did, it's the end of his career. Although it's too obvious, he's just making himself look more of an idiot with that stupid chinese-style excuse.
He's doing it as an "homage" to Chinese-style excuses.
theres a difference, when the chinese do it, they tell the world to kiss their asses because no-one can do anything about it other than complain.
besides.....why would he pick such a shit manga to plagiarize?
Fuck yeah, China!
Once you've already slipped into tracing you're delusional
No one needs to sue. His public humiliation is punishment enough.
I'm already thinking of jokes.
What does Nick Simmons do when he runs out of laundry detergent? .....He steals some Bleach.
With Jokes like that, its obvious you are a virgin!
"Screw the rules, I have money!"
@ Ghost Dog 08:53:
"Nick Simmons will soon launch a new homage to the works of Kentaro Yabuki. He's giving it the title of 'Copy Cat'."
Sadly, I laughed at that joke. ;_;
"Screw the rules, i have Plot!"
screw the rules , i have box of bleach ! and im not afraid to use it !!
^ Screw your box if bleach, i have copied it!
Screw the rules, I have a 5lb box of ....... DANGER!
like most rich individual or companies
I think he will finally give up and became either an actor or a singer. Maybe his father is allowing him to be a mediocre comic “artist” for some time to make him convince himself that showbussines is HIS bussines.
The only reason not to sue is because the rightful owner won't win in court.
What does he do when he's caught stealing it? Say he's promoting the use of the brand stolen.
"Once you've already slipped into tracing you're fail as an artist"
fix'd that for ya.
^this
Bleach author:
You copied my work so... wait what?, your dad is in KISS? Awesome!
^^^ Next step, the next Bleach Beat Collection now inspired by KISS, containing their songs but with a different cover.
Screw the rules, I have bleached hair!
Well duh, you can't really make a story by tracing of different comics.
Suddenly the hero is a completely different person, ah there he changed again, now the sex changed and now the enemy is completely different. Oh, there he went back to normal.
The only way to "make" a story that way is to trace the original story and claim that it's your own.
I really want to copy the art on his deviant art profile and let him know about it. Then, after he threatens to sue me, I actually admit that I was ripping off of Bleach.
I wouldn't actually suggest that, churn. As fun as that sounds, this is the US, where everyone can sue anyone for anything, and people with money always come out on top. Who's got more money, you or him?
Churn I'd say...
No... this is not the US. WTF
this is not the US.... this... is... SPARTAAA!!
This is the best plan ever.
BURN!!!
Do it dude! Do it! If he can trace, so can you!
Ahaha, do it! DO IT!!!
@churn
DA:
http://letsleepinggodslie.deviantart.com/
MySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/lovehungryman/
ROFL, good one
That is a nice plan actually.
OH SNAP! HAHAHA Do that shit!
This was a very -weak- excuse. He should just grow a pair and admit to what he did.
crime pays when your rich and white
Moar liek, your dad pays your legal fees amirite?
Yea, too late after he got caught.
Not that it was going to help even if he announced before it enough people noticed.