Comments on: Sunday Mailbag

By: Frank Zieglar

Frank Zieglar — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 21:08:30 +0000

That was a good question with an excellent answer.

By: Ray Gardner

Ray Gardner — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:44:48 +0000

These are two totally different animals.

Someone using samples from another artists to whom there is no connection whatsoever is quite simply dishonest. And what do they do or say whenever their own product doesn’t look as good as the samples anyway?

If I own, run or work with a caricature booth where other artists are working as well, of course there is going to be a collection of samples from various artists.

And it’s not as if the average park goer is looking for a specific artist.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:25:56 +0000

I do the same thing!

By: Ryan Roe

Ryan Roe — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 03:21:43 +0000

When I do a bad drawing I sign it Ed Steckley…is that wrong?

By: Tom

Tom — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:30:34 +0000

You analogy is right up to the part where the meal looks “totally different”. The meal in the picture was likely not cooked by the same chef in back that cooked the one pictured in the menu, but that chef was likely trained by the one who did cook your meal, and it should therefore be in the same ballpark.

Live artists aren’t machines that stamp out the same product over and over. These are hand drawn, spontaneous caricatures and subject to the limitations of that process. If EVERY caricature on the wall was done by me and I allowed NONE of my artists to hang their own samples, that would be unethical. That is not the case.