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From: gnome@olivee.UUCP (Gary Traveis)
Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers
Subject: Re: WIZARDS
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Date: Wed, 24-Apr-85 12:57:18 EST
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Posted: Wed Apr 24 12:57:18 1985
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> From: Greg Goodknight <GOOD@ACC>
> 
> 
> I enjoyed WIZARDS. Bakshi is a good storyteller, and I remember being
> thoroughly entertained. The animation was, of course, not up to what
> Disney or even Warner Bros. used to crank out, but at the time of release
> Bakshi was probably doing the best animation (measured in 
> quality/kilobucks/minute) of anyone in the business.
> 
> HOWEVER, NECRON-90 (PEACE) was a fairly blatant ripoff of a character 
> created by the late Vaughn Bode. Bode was probably best known
> for a delightfully disgusting creature named "Cheech Wizard" that was
> published regularly in the early '70s in the National Lampoon, until
> Bode's unfortunate demise. 
>... 
> It was plagarism all right, but Vaughn Bode was already dead, and I
> suppose his heirs just didn't want to fight it (I never was aware of
> any legal action). Stealing ideas from dead artists seems ghoulish to 
> me, and my personal respect for Bakshi dropped quite a bit. 
> (Insert here the usual disclaimer about sketchy memories of things 
> and people in past decades.)
> 
> 			Greg Goodknight <good@ACC.ARPA>
> 			Hardware Bozo
> 
> "I think we're all Bozos on this bus"
> ------

Yes, I loved that movie as well.  And yes, it was a direct ripoff
of Vaughn's.  Not that they (Barbara, Vaughn's wife, and Mark, their
son...) don't need the money, but according to
Mark, it mainly get's annoying after hearing the 40th
person at a SF/comic convention say "Oh, yeah!  Those are characters
from wizards!!".

Since Mark's a friend of mine, I thought I'd say that his work is
being published in EPIC magazine (at this very moment, I think).

Gary