WWW: Ripping Off King Arthur -- #175 Turkish Ripping Off King Arthur Part One
Arthur Spitzer
arspitzer at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 23 10:49:28 PDT 2014
http://www.rippingoffkingarthur.com/comic/175-turkish-ripping-off-king-arthur-part-one/
Okay. Confession time.
That impression I was giving you about how I was Ripping Off King Arthur
for my webcomic was only half true. The whole truth is that I've been
actually ripping off an old Turkish webcomic from the 1970s called
Turkish Ripping Off King Arthur (although in Turkey they just call it
Ripping Off King Arthur -- go figure!). This was a strip done by famous
70s Turkish webcartoonist (also famous Turkish porn star) Suleiman the
Magnificent.
Now sadly (for me at least), Suleiman only did 174 strips, which has
caused a problem for me since I've ripped off every single one of those
174 strips for the 174 strips in my own Ripping Off King Arthur (or as
they probably call it in Turkey -- American Ripping Off Turkish Ripping
Off King Arthur). And now that I've ripped off everything that I can
possibly ripoff in Turkish Ripping Off King Arthur -- I'm in kind of a
pickle.
Now I suppose I could just start coming up with my own material -- but
let's not get crazy here! That's why I've decided to fess up so I can
now reprint Suleiman the Magnificent's classic 1970s webcomic for the
whole world to enjoy again.
What's that you ask? Have I gotten permission from Suleiman to do this?
Well, I'm no lawyer, but the way that I figure it -- since I'm
American -- Turkish copyright laws really don't apply to me in any way.
Also, Suleiman the Magnificent is dead (maybe?) so he's probably not
going to sue me.
So, from this point forward, I'll be reprinting all 174 Turkish Ripping
Off King Arthur strips. And hopefully by the time I've finished
reprinting the last one I'll have found another Turkish webcomic from
the 1970s to "appropriate" some ideas from!
Arthur "Hopefully..." Spitzer
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