tried searching for a thread, but the the only one i got close to the topic was "Plagiarism among mangakas". if the mods wish this to be locked and move the discussion there, by all means, i comply.

anyway, Jon Schiller;

http://forums.mangafox.com/showthread.php?p=4575034

http://www.flickr.com/photos/29582982@N02/

i have some more comparison images, but i have something to take care of first. i'll upload them later if anyone wishes.

EDIT: so apparently, he noticed the uproar /a/, among others, were making and deleted some work from his flickr account. will definitely upload those pics..... later

so what exactly happened here....?? i dont know what's going on @_@;;

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guess i don't have to upload them then:
http://campdonuts.wordpress.com/2010/07/27/jon-schiller-likes-to-trace/

http://www.comicvine.com/forums/gen-discussion/1/capcom-and-other-companies-being-plagiarized/561706/

@PeachMangoTea; general plagiarism thread. though i guess there should be a rule, to not include those in DA or any site like it involving artists who only draw for the heck of it. so for now, how about; 1)they're making money out of it, 2) claims they are of their own original creation ?

what a bastard. this one looks like he didn't even bother to trace and simply just magic-wanded the silhouette of the original character and made it simpler...

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Plagiarism involving manga is not unheard of. Here's a thread about Nick Simmon's (Gene Simmon's son) blatantly copying bleach. It's ridiculous what he tried to get away with. And here's an article about plagiarism in manga in general. Interesting thing about this John Schiller person is that he used a lot of different source materials (I find him copying even game art from mega man zero surprising), whereas other usually only copy one other artist.

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for those who've yet to heard it; Liuzhou Lan Hai technologies Ltd.'s Windows of the Heart (China) vs. Makoto Shinkai's 5 centimetre per second (Japan). heck, they admitted to the plagiarism.

http://gigazine.net/index.php?/news/comments/20090902_china_5cm/

Umm... Wow, the said person was foolish enough trace illustrations from a well known source; going so far as too publish the illustrations with the notion of plagiarism in mind. This is the very height of impropriety. I can't even begin to fathem, why the said hypocrite would think they'd get away with it. The very thought sickens me, that even in this day and age, this sought of behaviour still happens. This time however, was quite favourable, that the said person was caught.

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oh, this is like kayono and takashima one. Kayono plagiarised off of takashima and got scott clean since she had her mom (who's a 'famous') mangaka pulled some strings and forced takashima to stop creating manga
[url]http://kayono_kenshou.at.infoseek.co.jp/kenshougazou.html[/url] click on the numbers to view the images.
sigh- where was the justice in this case, I mean if kayono plagiarised calivn keivn as well (geez, because of her harlem beat ended early)

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