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NEWS: Nick Simmons' Incarnate Halted Over Alleged Bleach Plagiarism

nick simmons is a plagiarist! he sucks for denying it when its so obvious!!!

Tite Kubo is a a genius and nick simmons should know no one gets away for such obvious crimes

I find it interesting that ANN has reported on plagiarism a number of times in the past, and even beyond that people have posted a number of posts detailing other occurrences and these really don't get much of a reaction.

Now we get a case of a US artist blatantly ripping off someones work, and an artist with ties to a high profile celebrity as well. Now it's suddenly a huge deal and everyone is standing in line to join the angry mob. I'm not saying it's right what he did, because it obviously isn't. It's just interesting to note the reactions this time when a US artist is involved compared to the many other plagiarism cases that have been reported here over the years.

It's really quite common in the comic book industry, and it's not a sign that he is some despicable thief so much as a lazy artist who needs to work harder at his craft.

I find it interesting that ANN has reported on plagiarism a number of times in the past, and even beyond that people have posted a number of posts detailing other occurrences and these really don't get much of a reaction.

Keonyn wrote:

I find it interesting that ANN has reported on plagiarism a number of times in the past, and even beyond that people have posted a number of posts detailing other occurrences and these really don't get much of a reaction. Now we get a case of a US artist blatantly ripping off someones work, and an artist with ties to a high profile celebrity as well. Now it's suddenly a huge deal and everyone is standing in line to join the angry mob. I'm not saying it's right what he did, because it obviously isn't. It's just interesting to note the reactions this time when a US artist is involved compared to the many other plagiarism cases that have been reported here over the years.

It's Bleach, one of the top selling manga in the US, Famous manga copied by son of a famous person. Obviously more people are going to talk about it.

As I said above, has it ever been anything this blatant?

For all the comments about this not being so much different then fanart. Generally there is a big difference. Fanartists aren't usually making a profit, and usually they aren't tracing. These pictures were obviously traces! However, I can't deny that 75% of fanart online floating around isn't traced either. The biggest thing that gets me is the fact that this guy is tryin to sell this as HIS OWN WORK.

The goal, to me at least, of drawing your favorate anime character, is to LEARN from it. Just like drawing from a live model, you're their to study and ANALYZE the forms of the model, or in fanarts case, an animated, or comic book character! You can't animate or draw something you can't understand, am I right?
It's apparent to me, that this guy didn't learn to draw at all, he merely just traces details, instead of sitting down and sayin, why does Orihime look so hot, or why is Kenpachi so awesome, and analyzing the models (or artwork if you will). Finding out how things tick and applying them to ones own work is how most artists come up with something awesome, as opposed to just traces.

Actually it has.

A fanart, to an aspiring artist, is merely a way of showing your love for the show and the characters, no different then cosplay in my eyes.

Fanart is a great way to learn how to draw and get yourself set up for hopefully, one day breaking out into the professional world.

Well they do all most look the same but Nick's art work is very good

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What Nick Simmon did is just some shameless copy and paste jobs. If it was some fanarts, then it's okay in my opinion, but he's now selling his comicbooks with contents which belong to an other artists/mangakas.

Pardon me if I'm wrong, but don't artist in the Artist Alley of cons sell fanart all the time?