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Swipe File: James Jessop And John Buscema On The BBC

The BBC broadcast a British version of The Apprentice, starring businessman Sir Alan Sugar, giving a bunch of wannabees the chance to get a large investment from Sugar in a new business of theirs.

This week's exercise was selling "urban art". Grafitti designs. Two teams picking an artist each, selling their work, and competing on the commission earned.

One of the artists was a fellow called James Jessop, producing work like this. "Raising Hell".

Or otherwise known as The Abomination by John Buscema and Dan Adkins from Silver Surfer #12.

Thanks to Martin Hand for the spot and finding the image from the Essential volume. There might be one of two other swipes on his website as well…

In Swipe File we present 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 trust you, the reader, to make that judgment yourself.  If you are unable to do so, please return your eyes to their maker before any further damage is done. The Swipe File doesn't judge, it's 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.

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