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Listen to Sequential Underground #79 right now:
Hosts:
Shawn Atkins and Nick Marino
Show Notes:
Our topic for this episode comes from a listener named Tomo, who’s asked us to discuss swiping in comics.
Tomo made a wild web chart to convey his sprawling thoughts about swiping.
Tomo’s definition of swiping is pretty broad, going so far as to include retold stories like Romeo and Juliet. So we begin our discussion by trying to nail down our personal definitions of swiping.
What’s the difference between plagiarism, swiping, imitation, homage, and parody? Are there clear distinctions between these concepts or are they basically the same thing?
And how does swiping work itself into the pages of indie cartoonists vs. mainstream comic book artists?
Ninja Turtles vs. Black Belt Hamsters: is this swiping, homage, or parody?
After the end theme, we turn into Culinary Underground and share some more sandwich recipes.
Sponsor:
This podcast is brought to you by Kitty & Batz: Hypnotic Homicide.
Artists Kristi “Batz” Zerga and Dianna “Kitty” Spain are collecting the first three crazy issues of their Kitty & Batz comic book series into one twisted, brightly colored graphic novel called Hypnotic Homicide. It’s currently on Kickstarter and they’e got some amazing rewards including t-shirts, prints, posters, variant covers by legendary artists, and more. Check it out!