Swipe File Archives

Chris Burnham was running an Officer Downe competition on his website to win origi nal art - the challenge was to find all the swipes he used. Well, here

This is the cover the the Washington Post magazine featuring Frank Cho in a recreation of his Liberty Meadows image for his Paris exhibition. It's part of

Her new album Bionic. And another, earlier, more familiar Astro Boy image... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some

Two comics. Both written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. One featuring the Legion Of Superheroes. Another featuring the Gladiator of the Shi'Ar Guard -

Is this a little more sensitive than usual, considering Marvel's current owners? In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to

A Frank Quitely cover to the Vertigo vampire series from a few years ago, Bite Club, that would probably have done a lot better if it was published now...

From Now Comics 1988 From IDW in 2010 With just a little for seasoning... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some

    Oh, but this is beautiful. I mean I can't really call this a swipe. It's a homage, but one that goes far further than a simple image. The

Submitted by Little Bleeder Trevor Phillips. In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to some degree. They may be homages,

Now this is going back. To Greg Land's early career drawing a comic book Stormquest for Caliber in 1994. And not only did it sound a little like an Image

I love a good self-swipe. I mean no one can really criticise you for reusing a good pose every now and then can they? Although I think the Black Widow

Well, the third one has been out for a bit, the first one is playing on the DVD right now and suddenly I saw... Is it just me? It is, it's just me isn't

This post is going to play havoc with my Google traffic I'm sure. Anyway. Anyway, this is PASWG (oh by the way don't even google image search the

For a while Greg Land had a reputation for swiping from various sources, photographic and comic. But it's always nice to see when he swipes from

So there are a bunch of fans of Joss Whedon's Firefly and Serenity fans who spend their days and possibly nights creating space ships that might exist in

Last year, Brain Scan published Watchmensch by me and Simon Rohrmuller. A commentary on the comics industry over the last seventy years using the language

I don’t write that much about mainstream superhero comics because I don’t find very much that’s positive to say about them. They seem trapped in a

Not too long ago, representatives of Radical Comics contacted artist Rudy Vasquez and asked if he would do a new book for them "Driver For The Dead". They

Jon Schiller Design creates a number of toys, prints, designs and images. But some of them feel a little familiar. Especially when compared to a series of

All that fuss when Peter Parker and Mary Jane did that deal with Mephisto as part of One More Day to save the life of May Parker. But had it all happened

From Sucker Punch footage... And from Andy Diggle and Leinil Yu's Silent Dragon... In Swipe File we present two or more images that resemble each other to

The first is the poster image for Sinatoro, the movie for which Grant Morrison is writing the screenplay. The second is a colour version of the cover for

The Weekly Crisis spot that the Iron Man mobile blueprints (top) are the Batmobile blueprints from Batman Returns (bottom), cut and pasted. This online

Pyro, X-Men villain/occasional hero. And ShockSlayer, who's created his own arm-mounted flame thrower. See him in action below...

Sometimes a swipe is a lazy choice for a creator. And sometimes its a way to suggest a link to the past. Such as this teaser for a new series from

On the left hand side ladies and gentlemen, Joe Quesada's variant cover for Amazing Spider-Man 638 reinterpreting the classic Spider-Man No More

Take one short film by Carl Rinsch, The Gift. Rinsch is a protegee of Ridley Scott and The Gift cleaned up at Cannes with Rinsch in a bidding war over his

Joel Adams, son of Neal Adams, has had a creation called Lil Creatures Of The Night going for a while. Art, prints, shirts, that kind of thing. well

A while ago I ran a fun piece looking at a potential swipe file between Steven Moffat and Alan Moore, with Moore using a very similar narrative trick in

Sorry guys, some video from the Blue Beetle live action test footage was part of an SFX showreel for rommel S Calderon went live on YouTube for a few