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Interesting Response to Gerber’s Death
- by Brian Cronin
- in General
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 9:05 PM EST
Updated: Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 at 9:05 PM EST
Steve Gerding had an interesting post over at Kung-Fu Rodeo about how the death of Steve Gerber has apparently led to an increased amount of his comics being available to download on the internet on the various torrent sites.
4 Comments
karlos
February 28, 2008 at 4:41 am
On the one hand, getting Gerber’s work out there to people who otherwise may not read it is good, but I can’t help thinking this isn’t “paying tribute” to most, but a way to get a big pile of comics for free.
I’m kinda torn on it.
Anthony Strand
February 28, 2008 at 5:52 am
As someone who downloads comics, reads them once, and deletes them - anything worth a second read gets purchased - I think this is a valid way to pay tribute. It gets people like me reading Gerber’s work - people who might very well go out and buy some of what they’ve read.
RAB
February 28, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Jim Shelley of Flashback Universe also wrote about this — and if even a small percentage of the downloaders actually read those comics and see what the rest of us are talking about when we praise Gerber’s work, it cannot be a bad thing.
Jack Norris
February 28, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Well, for much of the stuff listed, he was receiving meager compensation, in some cases nothing at all, for the reprinted material. For anything not currently in print, if you were to round up the back issues, again, none of the money spent would have found its way back to him. In that sense, I don’t think that it’s a big insult to him to avail oneself of this stuff at this point; in fact, ripping off Marvel might make for a bit of a tribute in and of itself. Heh. Half-kidding.