Art Theft Warning
Fans and artists in the Into The Spiderverse Fandom- this book is selling uncredited art prints in multiple bookstores, digitally, and on e-books.
I received this book as a gift and to my surprise stumbled across an piece from an artist friend that hadn’t shared on their art public pages like they had with previous colabs and published projects, and that didn’t pass my smell check.
@risto-licious and their Twitter(go give their stuff a look! They’re great!)
Checking in my friend confirmed that they’d not been alerted to their art being used or compensated. Not only that but their signature had been edited out.
Upon further inspection many of the other pieces have evidence of clone brush/heal brush style signature and watermark removal which leads me to believe that most if not all of the art pieces in this published work are stolen
If you recognize any of these pieces or know their artists please alert them to their art being stolen and sold. I’m more than happy to link them, credit them with their art, or the like. They deserve to know about their artwork being used without their permission.
The book in question is: Spiderverse Art Book - Into The Spiderverse Art Book (Unofficial): Spiderverse Art of The Movie
Please go to their page and their sellers page on the retailers selling it and report/give one star ratings to get this removed and stop artists hard work being profited off of by this bad-actor.
If anyone knows about the process of getting compensated for sales of their art that they did not consent to please let me know
*edit/update:
More of the artists who’s work is in this has been identified. Hmu if you would like this post edited or like to clarify anything
@princecanary Is the artist who drew the picture where Peter is tied up in the last picture- top left.
@abd-illustrates Is the artist who drew the picture of the spider-persons in the third picture bottom right
Give these artists some love. They deserve so much better than this
I just filed an infringement report to Amazon about this, but if y’all could keep an eye out and let other artists know if you see their work here too so that they can file a DMCA claim of their own; that’d be grand!
