Theft is not a compliment.

Hopefully, by the time this post goes up (nearly two business days after I’ve spent time agonizing over my language in take down notices to make sure it’s oh so clear and specific), the three shops on Redbubble selling my work as theirs will have it removed. I believe the three shops are all run by the same person/robot person  and that probably all of the work put up on their shops is stolen from the actual artists like mine was.

My sweet little Danger Crumples, who has many book-related parody occupations, but was always such a good detective, was put up in at least three Redbubble stores I found by thieves, like they painted him or created those images in any capacity. Like they painted my Danger Drew Mysteries. Um, you thieves have never been in the presence of Danger Crumples and had no right or consent from me to ever put my paintings of him anywhere.

He’s my little star beast, he helped inspire me to even start painting again, and it’s so ridiculously painful to see that now my art is being stolen too. I have already had my books stolen thousands of times through free download sites I’ve found over the years instead of being paid for even though I charge less than $5 for each, and now, it’s even more of a knife in the heart because this is my pig. I care about my guinea pigs above all and Danger Crumples is, was, and ever shall only have been my pig. He lived his whole life with me except for maybe about 30 days and his ashes are readily displayed in his bamboo box with its fly nameplate in the room next to the one I’m typing this in. I feel violated seeing people using him and so I don’t think I can be more clear about how not anyone else’s he is. Not even as a muse. Get your own muse, thieves.

This is me with Danger Crumples on 3/17/2011, the day after I got him, taken by my friend Adam. The part of my face you can see is how I always look when I’m beaming at my guinea pigs, even more than 10 years later.

 

All three of the main book paintings in my Danger Drew Mysteries are really cute, I know, and I’m the creator, the owner, and the only one who has the right to put them up on any art sale websites or anywhere at all, like this very blog, where they can be up alongside pictures of actual Danger Crumples…which only further and further emphasizes that this is my art and where I talk about it alongside the almost-reviews of actual books.

I would have loved to be able to photograph him with all of the paintings of him, but it was too late and seemed too weird with his ashes, even for me.

 

I bet those piece of shit thieves don’t know I painted full spines and textblocks on those paintings and I signed them as the painty author because they are paintings totally by me.

 

So, if you see Danger Crumples somewhere that isn’t this blog or very clearly associated with me, or for sale anywhere other than one of my art stores of which there are currently only two: My Redbubble and My Threadless  (my stores are also linked at the bottom of my page, perpetually, as are clear reputable places to get my books), it’s some jerkwater thief who deserves consequences.

 

It’s possible that someone else who has done a Nancy Drew parody will end up here, maybe who made work that’s also been stolen, and I put in takedown notices as the Danger Drew Mysteries are clearly the work of me. However, in case they’re needed by another victimized creator like me, these are the shop names I found selling my work on Redbubble like they created it and they all had more Nancy Drew work and most of the work there looks like different people made it, which I think it’s probably fair to say different people did since they stole from me and I don’t make work with people who aren’t silhouettes or reduced to bones:

Fangirl Problems, Inc. (fangirlpro) – I have to say, I think your “fangirl problem” is actually that you’re a thief.

Creationsby – Not creating your own work, are you, Creationsby? Creations by not you, thief.

HelloNancyDrew – Hello, thief. I think Nancy Drew is generally a character against crimes of opportunity. They had the gall to post this quote as their artist profile: “Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison/ You didn’t do the work of Danger Drew Mysteries, jackass. I did.

 

Don’t steal.