If you're thinking there has been no ouratge at massive swiping on the part of a few professionals, you would be wrong. I've seen some epic, brutal threads on a few artists who have not honored their privileged position.And frankly, there have been some pretty hefty behind the scenes legal settlements. I have to wonder how some people still get hired. I know one artist who was banned from working for a major publisher for a decade for swiping a celebrity photo for a Marvel cover. I'd say he got punished pretty well.And BTW, when you swipe a Marvel Comics cover, legally the injured party is Marvel, not the artist. If a Marvel artist swipes a Marvel job for Marvel, there's no legal problem there, because Marvel is the author for all purposes of copyright law.I don't get angry every time someone swipes me, and I think I recognize the spirit of homage art in which it is intended. I am not running around Deviant Art taking down swipes of my stuff. In fact, I've linked to them to say hi to the fan artists for appreciating my work.That's not what this guy is doing. He's fraudulently representing himself to the public as an official company artist, lying about his credits. He is not the artist of Calvin and Hobbes. Why is that on his resume?Funny story: years ago, I was having trouble scaring up work, so my agent Spencer Beck took me on the rounds in New York. We ended up at the Marvel offices, and while we were there presenting to an editor, my agent yelped Hey, that's your art! And there was the figure from the cover of A Distant Soil 29 on Marvel cover pencils just turned in. Major artist, too.The cover painting of A Distant Soil 29 was right there in my portfolio. I pulled it out, and I thought the editor was going to faint. He apologized profusely, and I just laughed it off. The swipe was only a portion of the cover, and I was just kind of surprised that particular artist read my work. It didn't bother me and I brushed it off.It's one thing to reference someone else's work: it's another thing to make an entire career out of plagiarism. I considered the minor swipe use of reference, and I didn't care.If I found that the same artist was going over every shot from A Distant Soil and my catalog was represented in every book he did, I'd be pissed. But one swipe: no big deal. Everybody is inspired by someone at some point, and one swipe does not make a plagiarist.Mr. Granito is a plagiarist. And he's made a career out of it. Worse yet, he is ripping fans. Those Calvin and Hobbes prints are something he has no right to sell.