Rob Granito coming to New York Comic Con?
Well, this is one way to steal focus from this weekend’s MoCCA festival.
Kelly Rowles reports this message from Rob’s wife Alison, who apparently represents “Rob Granito Art Services” and has tried to get people to pay for interviews with Rob. After telling them they won’t pay for any interviews, she got this reply:
I am sorry to hear that. I will give you a scoop though. That is is illegal to ban Rob Granito as a vendor at all conventions. And currently Rob Granito is working on material for a one-man show/panel in which he admits and apologizes for his past mistakes, while at the same time shedding new light on the politics within the comic book community, and lets you know the REAL story. Rob will also be telling jokes and doing humorous sketches on stage, so it will show a whole new side. We are looking towards premiering this at the New York Comic Con in October. The name of the show will possibly be “Controversey Creates Ca$h”. We believe there is a band wagon making it trendy to hate Rob Granito without knowing him, and the claims that he has stolen all his work has been blown out of proportion, thanks to people like Mark Waid, Ethan Van, Bleeding-Cool, and Jammar (sic) Igle. Again, giving us a chance to tell you the WHOLE story would benefit both your website and the comics convention community. Please reconsider. We are open to working out a payment plan if that works better for you.
Call it a hunch, but I bet the nice folks at NYCC are not going to have Rob on any panels, nor rent him a table, nor even let him in the door. Although they could raise a lot of money if they rented a dunk tank for him.
I’ll have to ask “Jammar” this weekend at MoCCA. See y’all there.
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So he’s Charlie Sheen now, but broke? Who was the headcase that trash about the internet originally? They’re the ones who should be dunked, cuz then people like this guy and his spelling, grammar, and legal comprehension challenged wife would still be in their basement tracing Batman and dreaming of the day they’re “discovered”.
How does he figure it’s illegal for a show promoter to choose not to allow him to purchase table space? He’s not being discriminated against for his race, creed, gender, etc. He’s being denied space ’cause he’s a lying douche bag.
When someone sinks to gutter level, one generally assumes that person has reached the lowest point that a person can sink to. But hey, there’s an entire sewer underneath that gutter. Just reading that e-mail made me feel slimy.
I never heard of this guy. (Of course, i seldom see current comics any more).
I think i’m glad.
Ah. I see – i thought he might be a real (albeit overly-self-boosting-under-talented) comic artist.
I recall hearing something about him, after all.
Some years back, i narked out a website that was selling “original” artwork composed of bits and pieces of the work of Don Maitz, Kelly Freas and others to ASFA, and they went right after him…
According to Granito, lightboxing real artists’ work means he’s part of the comic industry.
Well, there are a lot of “real” artists who do, too…
I think it was Dan Adkins who was quoted as saying Wally Wood said “Don’t draw what you can swipe. Don’t swipe what you can trace. Don’t trace what you can cut out and paste in.”
Certainly Adkins seemed to believe in that – dropping a Finlay swipe and two panels from a Creepy story by Johnny Craig (making no attempt to make them look like his style) in a Doctor Strange story…
I won’t get into what the masters of old considered acceptable, but as far as I know Granito has never even tried to create a comic. He just lightboxes people’s art and sells them as “original” pin ups.
Oh, i’m not saying that what i quoted justifies what he does; just found it amusing to recall.
It was a whole different time and industry.
Even people who are up on recent comics haven’t seen him. He’s only claimed to have worked on a few (old) books (and even then, covers). And vague media properties too, like “Batman” or “Iron Man 2” where there’s a lot that could have been done from designing slurpee cups to licensed children party napkins.
Or scribbling in your basement after having seen Dark Knight or Iron Man 2.