Artists Accused of Swiping
| Alleged Swiper | Source | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Chester Brown | Joe Orlando | |
| Rich Buckler | Neal Adams | Buckler has a dubious reputation as one comics' top "swipe" artists, with his early work in particular filled with "homages" to artists like Jack Kirby, John Buscema, and Neal Adams. After being publicly accused of the practice by The Comics Journal in the early 1980s, Buckler denied the charges and sued the magazine for libel; he later dropped the suit. |
| Jack Kirby | ||
| Charles Burns | Hergé | |
| Michael Allred | David Chelsea | Allred denied the charges. |
| Denys Cowan | Gil Kane | |
| Glyn Dillon | Jaime Hernandez | |
| Steve Ditko | Will Eisner | |
| Ron Frenz | Jack Kirby | |
| Keith Giffen | José Antonio Muñoz | Giffen has acknowledged Muñoz's influence, and in 2000 referred to the controversy this way:
"I had a bad incident with studying somebody's work very closely at one point, and I resolved never, ever to do it again. I can get so immersed in somebody's work that I start turning into a Xerox machine and it's not good. . . . There was no time I was sitting there tracing or copying, no. Duplicating, pulling out of memory and putting down on paper after intense study, absolutely." In 1986 Giffen was one of the most popular comic book artists in the industry. The ensuing swiping controversy hurt Giffen's reputation. |
| Bob Kane | Alex Raymond | The classic Batman pose on the cover of Detective Comics #27 (the first appearance of Batman) is swiped from a 1937 Alex Raymond drawing of Flash Gordon. |
| Gil Kane | Jack Kirby | |
| Jack Kirby | Hal Foster | |
| Peter Kuper | Rius | |
| Ralph Steadman | ||
| Alan Kupperberg | Gil Kane | |
| Rob Liefeld | Brent Anderson | |
| John Byrne | ||
| Frank Miller | ||
| George Pérez | ||
| Ron Wilson | ||
| David W. Mack | Adam Hughes | Mack admitted the Hughes swipes online:
". . . About the reference to Adam Hughes, yeah, I owe him credit here too. When preparing for the look of this book, I wanted to really embrace the comic book look of things while keeping things looking realistic as well, and I'm a big fan of Adam's ability to do that, . . . and I was looking at a lot of his work, among others, as a kind of training wheels in considereing styles, and getting started on this issue. . . . This was one of the first pages that I drew in this issue, getting into the vibe for the series and you may be right that I referenced it too heavily. Sometimes when you are getting rolling on a project it takes a few pages to work the influences out of your system. So props to Adam, you have to give credit where credit is due. . . ." |
| Todd McFarlane | Otomo Katsuhiro | |
| Joe Phillips | Barry Windsor-Smith | |
| Andi Watson | Mike Allred |
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