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Epic Fail. Serial conman Josh Hoopes returned, this time posing as one Samitri Banks, single mother artist, and offering work for a number of projects on Kickstarter, and commissioning art from others to fill that need Taking the money for the work, not paying the artists with no one realising what is happening until it's too[...]

Recently, Bleeding Cool exposed the latest identity of serial comics industry conman, Josh Hoopes, as one Samitra Banks And, in the process, manages to save at least one person from commissioning work from this fictitious identity. Josh Hoopes poses as a single mother with a five year old daughter in need of work and showing plenty[...]

Josh Hoopes has been the bane of my life for well over a decade Bring yourself up to speed here, but know this He is a conman, based in Sacramento, California and Peru With a juvenile criminal record, he began scamming the most vulnerable, comic book artist starting out, and small comic book publishers. The scam[...]

Comic book industry conman Josh Hoopes is using a new name A new address New details And this conman of comics has managed to con bigtime art dealer Mike Burkey – for a second time. We reported last year how Burkey was conned into buying Todd McFarlane and Art Adams sketches that were not by Todd[...]

And who do they use? Why someone who's a cross between Rob Granito and Josh Hoopes And where did they come across this kind of activity? One one place… Leverage was a TV show, recently cancelled, that was basically a cross between The A-Team and Not A Penny More Not A Penny Less, Robin[...]

Earlier today we ran another example of Josh Hoopes using his Tucker Doud pseudonym on DeviantArt And then we googled it further. Oh dear. In July this year, Stratum Comics published a comic book, Threat #1 by Xeric Award Winners Matt Schmidt and Vince Chuter, and Jordi Perez Estevez. It had a cover by Tucker Doud. And therein lies[...]

Josh Hoopes is a con man operating in the comics industry. Over many years, we have covered his attempts to con publishers by taking assignments for small amounts of money, hire artists to do the work for him for large amounts of money and then disappear, leaving publishers believing they have work they have paid for[...]

Posing as Greg Garwood, Josh Hoopes has scammed two more people. Jessica writes; I posted on the DeviantArt forum job section enlisting a comic artist for a short story  Many replied, but he was the most persistant and cordial  I'd ask for character drawings as an audition and he was able to produce one, so he seem[...]

Special thanks to Alistair, Bleeding Cool writer, who strung this along so much. Bleeding Cool had repeatedly covered the story that comic industry conman Josh Hoopes was scamming young creators for hundreds, thousands of dollars, by posing as a non-existing Wizard World executive called Greg Garwood This time, however, we decided to go all the way[...]

But he doesn't seem to have stopped. Masquerading as one "Greg Garwood", Josh Hoopes is continuing to approach dealers trying to sell sketches (below) purporting to be by Todd McFarlane Bleeding Cool has received confirmation from Todd, if confirmation were needed, that these are fakes. He has already scammed one respected dealer and is continuing to do[...]

Now it seems that Josh Hoopes has set up the same scam at ConceptArt.org, again posing as someone called Greg Garwood and providing an e-mail address too… Remember, this is not Wizard, none of this is true, he is just trying to scam people or their work and money… It was pulled from People Per Hour[...]

THey managed to get the piece taken down. Comic book industry conman Josh Hoopes has recently been posing as one Greg Garwood He has previously tried a similar scam posing as a Wizard Magazine representative – that time he conned $1700 out of a South African writer, at least. Hoopes, after laying silent for many months, seems[...]

In our many investigations of the comic indusry conman Josh Hoopes, we discovered that he was working at a saw mill in Sacramento, California, appropriately ACME Saw. However, it appears now that he is no longer working there, thought through no action of ours. Instead he was fired by the company for stealing tools from the company[...]

Only when Burkey paid did he realise that the receipt said "josh hoopes", the name of the comic industry's most infamous conman. Josh Hoopes has, it seemed, moved on from trying to con the small press and wannabee creators, to aiming at a potentially more lucrative art market And for some reason, still focusing on Art[...]

Josh Hoopes, famed comic industry conman, is using a new pseudonym, to accompany Ron Runstrom, Lalit Kumal and David Johnson, namely one Greg Garwood. I am aware of one specific individual who paid Greg a large sum in order to secure artwork only to find that the Paypal receipt came back from one Josh Hoopes[...]

Have you been screwed buy Josh Hoopes? Did he pose as you to get commissioned work? Did you hire him, based on falsified credentials? Did he deliver art from another artist pretending it was his? Did he hire you as an artist, take some pages and then disappear, never paying you a penny? Then it is time to get in[...]

Here's the story on one man who is out the relatively small sum of $375 to comic industry conman Josh Hoopes. 1)Paypal sounded very helpful at first, then declined to refund our money Apparently Hoopes convinced them that he provided the good/services he promised. 2) The Sacramento Police (where Hoopes lives) were worthless…told me to call the[...]

He has been approached by infamous comics scam merchant, Josh Hoopes, using his Joshua John pseudonym Unknowningly, Gary wrote back; From: Gary Madden Our home page shows product- interior shots and briefly explains in  text what we do and how. [long details of the company offerings, including company video] So my initial thoughts Can you do it? I'll need[...]

This is the artwork that a publisher, who had been scammed by Josh Hoopes, received The problem is, we don't know who actually drew it Whoever it is, has not been paid for their work, and may be expecting someone else to be paying for it If you know the style, the work or the[...]

For the last decade, I have been running stories about Josh Hoopes A Sacramento man who has systematically conned big guys and little guys out of money His standard scam is offer his art skills at a very  low price to writers and publishers, then hire artists to do the work at a very high[...]

Josh Hoopes is again trying to launch a series of scams across the comics industry, to try and rip off both new artists and small publishers Over the years he has easily scammed a six figure sum, though I have managed to stop a number of people from being conned. He is currently advertising for work[...]

Josh Hoopes is the most infamous con man in comics, who has, it seems, conducted scam after scam upon young artists, writers and publishers, such as TokyoPop, Com.X and Desperado He has repeatedly fraudulently commissioned artwork, fraudulently taken payments for artwork that was not his, and pretending to be both the famous artist Art Adams[...]

But he's also a victim of repeat comic book industry conman Josh Hoopes or Joshua Hoopes. Hoopes "hired" him to draw a comic book from a script he provided Lalit drew a numbar of pages but was never paid It later transpired that Josh was not the writer, another creator was, who had paid Josh to[...]

Over the years, I've had a few messages from those who have met comics conman Josh Hoopes to say that he doesn't actually look that much like the common photograph of him And that I should probably find something a little more recent. Well, here you go Gaze upon the face of Hoopes! And hey, you remember[...]

The home of comics' most nefarious villain, Josh Hoopes Known for committing many acts of fraud against publishers and creators alike, from Art Adams to Joe Pruitt to TokyoPop, conning the most vulnerable of work and funds, he seems to flit from Sacramento in California to South America Last heard of, he was collaborating with[...]

Rob Granito is creating a new line of comic books under the name Bad Boy Comics with his… creative partner Josh Hoopes But not quite yet His wife Alison tells me "rather than self-publish a comic outright, Rob and his partner are going to make some prints showcasing the many characters and storylines they are[...]

You are now working with Josh Hoopes, who has a far worse reputation that you, for conning artists, writers and publishers out of hundred of thousands of dollars, and their work Why do you trust him so, when there is so much evidence that he has repeatedly conned people, people who[...]

But no one deserves this. Talking to Alison Granito, wife of Rob Granito, the scam has been uncovered. I already told you that Josh Hoopes had been talking to Rob Granito, helping him, sympathising with him, joining with him as painting me as their mutual nemesis And I wondered what his angle was Now I know. Josh has[...]

The name of this man? Josh. My ears pricked up. Josh Hoopes. And here's the thing My original article about Rob Granito, was because he's misrepresented himself to customers, giving provenance to his work that wasn't justified, conning customers out of their money, even if they didn't know they were being conned and went away happy[...]

He seems to be the con artist who keeps giving and giving. Yesterday's article looking at Rob Granito's bogus credits that have gained him Guest status at