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Separated At Birth: Prolific Pen Comics and Adam Ellis

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool ran a Separated At Birth column over cartoonist Adam Ellis's claims that the short film Keratin has been plagiarised from an original cartoon of his. And that he was only contacted by the film's producers after it had been made and exhibited at film festivals. Being a personal cartoon, he stated it was one that he would never have allowed to be adapted in this fashion. But in response to his post, cartoonist Yanni Favros of Prolific Pen Comics posted the following.

Funny. I seem to recall you shot-for-shot ripping off one of my comics in 2019 and never admitting it.

With Yanni's cartoon followed by Adam's.

In a now-deleted response, Adam replied

Here's that cartoon, rescued from the ether.

However, Martin Poggsner ran the date details of that image through the Wayback Machine, which is coming in very useful this week, and found a different cartoon for that day on his blog.

Adam Ellis has not posted any further replies.

Separated At Birth used to be called Swipe File, in which we presented two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages, parodies, ironic appropriations, coincidences, or works of the lightbox. We trusted you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself. If you were are unable to do so, we asked that you please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File didn't judge; it was interested more in the process of creation, how work influences other work, how new work comes from old, and sometimes how the same ideas emerge simultaneously as if their time has just come. The Swipe File was named after the advertising industry habit where writers and artist collect images and lines they admire to inspire them in their work. It was swiped from the Comic Journal, who originally ran this column, as well as the now-defunct Swipe Of The Week website.

If you see any similarities, feel free to send them into richjohnston@bleedingcool.com.

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