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tavington:

IMPORTANT- PLEASE VIEW AND READ DESCRIPTION

Please look at this image. This “stall” belongs to a Dealer who exhibited at London Expo this weekend.

Images look familiar? They should. They’re all STOLEN.

This guy claims to be the “genius” behind these works of art. Truth is, the majority, if not ALL of them, have been swiped from deviantART, printed on canvas and sold WITHOUT PERMISSION.

This guy is a fraud, a plagiarist, a thief and liar. Why is he even allowed to exhibit at London Expo.

We all need to gather proof that this guy isn’t all he claims to be. If you recognise ANY of these images. PLEASE SHARE OR COMMENT BELOW. A lot of these works are by American artists. We need to inform them and put a stop to this.

Please, please share and let a team of us put this right. We need to gather a lot of solid evidence to get this guy thrown out.

He didn’t have any business cards (no surprises there) but he’s exhibited and sold at London Expo many, many times.

I intend to write a deviantART journal about this and spread the word myself. It would help greatly if you could share your photos here too and we can pool all our evidence in one place and compare photos.

Thank you all for reading.

Signal boosting because my only issue with expo is that comic village is run as such a tight ship, with fanart and art theft cracked down on so massively hard that it barely exists at all any more - then as soon as you walk out of the amateur area and into the ‘professional’ dealers areas, its full of so much stolen and counterfeit artwork and goods. Disgusting.

I don’t recognise any of the pieces myself but if anyone else does, please reblog with information to help.

Vacant Sky: Awakening now has a kickstarter!

Let me tell you a little about this game and why I hope maybe some of you will consider supporting it.

On this project I was in charge primarily of character design and helping work out innovative ways of making the gameplay and story mesh together and making field sprites. Oh, and I drew the logo and some of the CGs in the trailer. I’ll be drawing CGs for the game too. I think we have some things you’ll like. Check out the trailer and music samples and our ‘official spiel’ first on the Kickstarter page. Go on, I’ll wait. Okay. Looks pretty cool, right? Let me tell you a few things I personally like about this project:

-It’s part of the awesome Vacant Sky series, but you don’t need to have played any to enjoy this one, because it’s a prequel! You play Dakura Maladorr, who, if you played the Contention trilogy you’ll know is historically kind of a big deal and quite infamous.

-The battle system is designed to be challenging and to eliminate repetitive grinding. Each battle is treated like a separate challenge and it’s imperative to get used to making the most of your party’s strengths.

-Each character’s personality and unique abilities tie into the gameplay, both in and out of battle. There is loads to explore in every map, and going back to earlier areas with new party members may yield new treasures as well as extra scenes that further explore the characters.

-Female characters who are rounded, flawed human beings, not eye candy or prizes. Also gay characters who are not defined solely by being gay but are just…characters…who happen to incidentally be gay.

-RAYNER’S MUSIC. Just…well, there’s a sampler on the kickstarter, also check out the soundtrack he did for Contention: http://vacantsky.bandcamp.com/album/vacant-sky-ost-sounds-of-contention

So, that’s why I’d like you to show a little support for our little game. If you can’t afford to pledge, which I can completely understand, then if you could at least give us a reblog or something, I’d really appreciate that. Thanks!

thedailywhat:

Heartwarming Tearjerker of the Day: Four-year-old comic book fan Anthony Smith is deaf in his right ear and has hearing damage in his left. He also refused to wear his hearing aid (which he calls “Blue Ear” because it is blue), because “superheroes don’t wear hearing aids.” So in a long-shot attempt to help her son, Anthony’s mom emailed Marvel for ideas.

“She didn’t know a specific person to write to here at Marvel, and even figured it might get caught in our spam filters, but she sent it in anyway, because that’s the kind of great parent Christina is,” said Marvel editor Bill Rosemann. “And it was her inspiring effort to help her son that touched so many of us here. As a fellow parent of a toddler, I can understand where she’s coming from, so I forwarded the email around the rest of Editorial, asking what we could do to help, and like when Cap yells, ‘Avengers Assemble,’ the gang leapt into action.”

Not only did Anthony receive an image of the superhero Hawkeye, who lost 80 percent of his hearing back in the ’80s and wore hearing aids — Anthony also received a drawing, by Nelson Ribeiro in Collected Editions, of a brand-new superhero: “Blue Ear.”

Now, with his hearing aid back in, Anthony is able to “fight battles and help people.” His preschool, for hearing-impaired kids, recently hosted a superhero week to inspire the students to overcome their limitations.

DON’T miss the video. It’s the best thing you’ll see all day.

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doggables:

Hell yeah, Lady Oscar. Finally I have an excuse to post this picture of me cosplaying her.

She is basically the BEST THING EVER.