RE: [SkunkworksAMA] Pirated art

From: Andrew Greene <blaze_at_netaxs.com>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:19:40 -0400 (EDT)

When did Steve go all electronic? I've purchased his prints as recently
as six months ago. I still have a short stack of his CDs around, tho, if
anyone'd like to trade for one.

On Thu, 16 May 2002, Cheetah wrote:

> I fly off the handle when people jump in with a big attitude then
> apologize about the attitude, when what they could have done is just not
> have the attitude in the first place! And yes your absolutely right
> about me now flying off the hook for Jim, but when you pay for Jims
> work, you have something in your hand, Jim spends hours coloring images
> by hand... Then people come along with awesome talent like Bernal but
> then instead of taking the time to put it on paper he went the route of
> Steve Martin and did it exclusively on the computer which leave a great
> product but not a physical product so what your essentially doing is
> paying for the right just to see it... Where as Jim and Des work hard as
> heck sometimes just to show stuff to their fans and usually don't ask
> much for it...
>
>
> James.
>
> *snort*
> Damn dude, what's your bug up today? I don't see you flaming Jim's ass
> for
> charging for his stuff... jeez, you should know as well as anyone else
> that
> an artist's gotta eat. Personally I think Mr. Bernal would get more
> business
> if he loosened up a bit, but that's no reason to fly off the handle.
> Speaking for myself, I think he does some of the only artwork that *is*
> good
> enough to charge for, and if this is the way he wants to do it, that's
> his
> decision.
> Plz don't lost it like this again for no good reason, I don't want to
> have
> to put a friend on mod status... but I'll do it.
>
> -Thylacine
> Ugh. I hate being a mod, it's overrated.
>
>
>
Received on Thu May 16 2002 - 08:19:43 CDT

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