And you thought Greg Land or Lichtenstein was bad..

[The Xenos]

Found this intesting thread over in the LitG forum.

http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?p=4405634#post4405634


Give me a break…


In the Pop Tradition of Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Tom Wesselmann, Alex Katz & other Pop Masters Donald Topp has reinvented the Pop Genre with his Comic Book & Pop Icon Images with subliminal backgrounds.

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Instead of Roy Lichtenstein's Ben-Day dots Donald Topp uses Vintage Adult Cartoon images from Japan & America for his backgrounds. The images, lettering and speech balloons show a Heartless Modern World where Sex is Subliminal & Blatant in our daily lives from children's comics, commercials & other common media.

Donald Topp's Gallery (http://www.excellentvirtu.com/donald_topp_art_gallery.htm)

This was my reply:

I think he just stole some random fanart off the web for the Wonder Twins one.

Anyway, I hope DC and Marvel sue his ass.

Also, the estate of the actress who played Morticia Adams. It's one thing to rip off someone's likeness from someone else's photo, but this guy is doing it soon after her death to make some extra cash.

The bastard doesn't even credit the sources. He just sticks "©Copyright Donald Topp".

My ass.

That's not art. That's being a con artist.

No maybe if these are limited to individual paintings, I could almost see it. Yet what gets me is his whole attitude that this is some high art and not just overrated fan art. This is fan art. F--- Lichtenstein. F--- pop art. This is nothing more than fan art and it seems like this guy is more a fan of his ego than of the characters and people he's blatantly sealing fame from.

More of this guy's crap here:
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald.html

And it seems he has a thing for The Flash liking 'big beautiful women'.
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald/images/4.jpg

He has a whole series superimposing Marvel and DC characters.. over porn.

Batgirl superimposed over porn... and random anime chracters like Faye Valintine.
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald/images/large/6.jpg

Wonder Woman, Adam Hughes? Plus.. do I see some Bondage Fairies in English in there? Well, it kinda fits.
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald/images/large/13.jpg

Superman + Porn = Lois is his bitch
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald/images/large/14.jpg

Some recent art ius there too. This looks like a Dodsons Black Cat. I also see part of a Tim Sale Spider-Man Blue cover.
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald/images/large/8.jpg

This looks like art from Ultimate X-Men
http://www.firecrackerstudios.net/members/donald/images/large/19.jpg

Plus he doesn't seem to think too much of the comics he's ripping off and
"The next stage of my work combined two favorite subjects of mine, comic books and porn. Two of the lowest forms of low-brow art."

Wow. He can go f--- himself. I hope DC and Marvel sue his pants off and leave him a starving artist. Real artists make their own characters or work for someone else's.

This guy is pure scum, a total thief with little creativty of his own. I hope to see this punk shut down.

[Azangel]

That is mindboggling.

I can't imagine that he's NOT gotten a cease and desist order by now, 'fair use' is one thing but...ugh!

[The Xenos]

Whoops! ANd I posted this in the wrong forum.

Though he does use Japaanese hentai in the backgroun of his art.

Like I said, it's almost fitting Wonder Woman uses bonadge fairies art. Though putting in an image of Faye from Bebop among the porn on the Batgirl one is rather insulting.

[Azangel]

Where do you want the thread moved to?

[The Xenos]

Whoops. I forgot about the power of mods. (Which is sad because I do stuff like that on another board I'm mod at.) I already started a new one it over in You'll All Be Sorry.

Feel free to leave it, close it, or even delete it here if you want.