Re: Comic: Save the Frogs

Dear Pete Casso,

Well, if you still have one of 'em old Commodores C64, I could send you one of
my 5 1/4 discs with the frogs on it. I think that was in 1994. Not sure, might
have been 95...

Oh well, whatever, I just thought it was pretty stoopid to start complaining
because of some ('s and and dots. If it was like big pichure someone stole,
where you could really tell that it was stolen, that would be something else.
But it seems pretty senseless to waste my and your time posting flames about
some little frog pic.

Now, let's say I have never seen any of your frogs before. And for a comic
with a frog in it, I need a small frog, say about 3 rows high. First I draw a
pair of eyes for the frog. something like that: OO That would make the frog be
very small.
So I try something bigger: ( )( )
Ok, closer. Let's make it: (.)(.)
Cool. And now we need the rest of the face:

  1.            2.            3.            4.
 _  _          _  _          _  _          _  _
(.)(.)        (.)(.)        (.)(.)        (.)(.)
 \_ /          |_ |         /    \        ( _  )
  \/            \/          \ o  /         \  /
looks too     looks like    too fat.      there we
thin.         shit.                       go.

There aren't too many ways to draw a frog in that size that looks good. I'm
sure there are lots of different ways to do it, but on the other hand: If you
made everybody in aaa draw a frog in that size, I'm sure about 90% of the
people would come up with something between very close and identical with what
you and I came up with. So I didn't neccessarily copy it from yours. Actually
I have never seen any of your frogs, which would make it pretty hard to copy
one of 'em? Don't you think so? And, maybe someone else came up with thesame
frogs you did? I don't wanna say you stole them, just ask yourself: Couldn't
it be possible that someone else had the same idea loooong time ago?

So, what you wanna say is, that everybody who uses ANY kind of stuph that
someone else MIGHT have already come up with has to ask EVERYBODY if ANYBODY
has EVER drawn something like that before? Cool idea. Would take forever to
post something, because I'm pretty sure that within the last 20 years someone
else has already published something like you just want to.

I'm not sure, cause I never read your FAQs, but did you give credit to all the
people who's ideas, figlet fonts, words and stuff you used? I'm pretty sure I
could find someone who wrote something that is pretty close to what you wrote.

Anyway, let me draw my stuph and i let you draw yours. OK?

Sincerely,

         DerBluT

P.S.: I think your name is some kind of modification of Picasso. Therefor I am
not sure if it is appropriate fot YOU or anybody else to MISuse the name of
one of the greatest artist ever. Think about it.