http://www.thedailyshow.com/


Check the Dirty Jobs segment, and look for the POAC Fascism graphic

Cool!

Somehow I thought that my first appearance on the daily show would be different. Oh well. Time to start planning for my second appearance.

How about we all write to Jon telling him he ought to get the designer of that particularly fetching graphic on his show?

Not until the writer's strike is over!

why can't i find this?

TJ... sue thos freaking scabs for intellectual property rights!!!! they made sure you couldn't see the url!

We're all on the same team. I have no problem with it. Besides, it's something to bring up in conversation when I meet Jon or anyone from Viacom.

true...

the same team?
are you sure?
you don't think VIACOM would jump at the chance for ratings and web hits by acting as though your product doesn't need to be compensated? isn't that the attitude that the writers are trying to kill? I'm sorry here, boss, but this is something you might want to consider talking about. If it had been another time, I wouldn't feel as adamant, but the fact that VIACOM is ripping you off because the writers are gone, I'd get violently pissed off, and give the story to fox, if I had to...

It would probably end up parodied by "family guy!" but at least I'd make it known.
no... seriously... if you made ripples about this, I bet things you said would be heard by more people.


edit to add:
If for some reason you wanted to meet either Jon or people from viacom, that would be a great way to do it.

On the other hand, the one man band is already pretty much overworked,
and funding is always such that hiring someone to represent is not an option.

Besides, it's a personal issue.

what?

Fair enough. - I'd forgotten about the strike.

I believe this is what Sky is talking about.

Yep!

how does that fit your comment?

seriously, isn't this a scabby issue?
why is there no response?

Well, I see your point, Seusser. I do. But I don't know, I'm not particularly possessive over my art. I guess you are probably unaware, but I was a professional artist back in K.C. I had solo shows and was a minor celebrity in some circles. Since I had to sell my babies, it's just natural for me to not give it another thought. Plus, I see my stuff all over the place. It just seems natural that it'd be popping up on TV every now and again. My art is just here to decorate the world. Where and when it shows up really isn't of consequence to me. Maybe that's stupid, but I dunno. I'm pretty easy about my art.

Now here's the funny thing... Didja know that Time-Warner Home Video tried to cheat me out of the rights to that graphic? They offered me a sum of money to allow them to use it in a documentary. When I received their copy of the license agreement, it was basically signing over the exclusive rights to it, "reproduced in any fashion, including methods of reproduction not yet invented for perpetuity." Bonus: It was supposed to be for a CLINT EASTWOOD documentary! I shit you not.

BTW, one of my graphics will be sold by the Syracuse Cultural Workers something-or-other. I'll get royalties and they were fair about the license agreement. Very very nice people. Some day I'll tell you all the story about how 20 years of my best work came to adorn the walls of the homeless peoples' shanties on the edge of the Missouri river in KC. =-)

Sorry Seuss, but I just figured that TJ was intellectually capable, and that he knew full well the legal issues involved and that if he really wanted to do as you suggested, he wouldn't have needed the suggestion. This is why I stated that this was a personal issue.

There's also some history.
Some time ago, shortly before I joined the forum, I was using TJ's graphics on my blog. (no longer exists) But first I'd shop the OAC logo off the bottom. TJ very niucely asked me to not do this. He had no problem with my using his graphics, as long as he got the credit that was due him. I can relate to this. The man's art is a personal thing, and not about making a buck. However, if someday it does make a buck, no harm there either!

Sky is so kind. I actually drove to his house and shat upon his lawn.

That's a nice weed patch now