I'm disappointed that hardly anyone is talking about the shit going down with Dynamite Comics. They've been caught and/or accused tracing and using heavily edited generative AI art in their Darkwing Duck comic covers and possibly the comic itself. Most of the traced art sources have been from fanart from all over the internet and art done by James Silvani and Lissette Carrera

And what’s worst is that, at the time Dynamite Comics were looking for artists for both the cover art and actual comic art, they had several artists including some very well known duck artists offering their services. But from what I’ve been reading the artists that were chosen, we’re supposed “high-tier” artists from DC comics.

Oh Morgana my dream ghoul💘

by James Silvani

Animaniacs #17 -September 1996

"Beauty or the Beast"

written by Mark Mckain

penciled by James Silvani

inked by Scott McRae

lettered by Bob Pinaha

colors by Dave Tanguay

Darkwing Duck To Return to Comics!

Darkwing Duck To Return to Comics! #SaveDarkwing #DarkwingDuck #LetsGetDangerous #DynamiteComics #DisneyAfternooniverse #DisneyComics

It was announced Friday by Dynamite Comics that they will be producing a new comic book based on Darkwing Duck. The reports of the announcement shared by Dynamite Comics indicates these will be new stories, but the publishers also has the rights to reprint the original limited series from 1991 that introduced the character in…

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The Gauntlet (1977)

The Gauntlet by #ClintEastwood starring #SondraLocke, "barely more than the sum of its action bits and Eastwood is surprisingly unimpressive",

CLINT EASTWOOD Bil’s rating (out of 5): BBB USA, 1977. Warner Bros., The Malpaso Company. Screenplay by Michael Butler, Dennis Shryack. Cinematography by Rexford L. Metz. Produced by Robert Daley. Music by Jerry Fielding. Production Design by Allen E. Smith. Costume Design by Glenn Wright. Film Editing by Joel Cox, Ferris Webster. Director and star Clint Eastwood attempts a character who is the…

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A Negaduck Timeline.

Negaduck-- criminal mastermind of two worlds!

Painting Notes: 90s - I don't really have any notes here, it's the first Negaduck painting I've ever done. ^_^U

2011 - Near the end of the 2011 comics run, Negaduck gains these sort of powers that are like venom in Spiderman (for lack of a better way to describe them). It's pretty cool. (Comic Artist: James Silvani)

2016 - "Can you imagine the chaos? It'll be beautiful." I don't know why, but that's one of my favorite quotes from the 2016 Darkwing comics. (Comic Artist: James Silvani)

2017 - It's really sad that Ducktales 2017 was cancelled. He was definitely one of the characters that deserved more episodes.

2023 (DW version) - from the Darkwing 2023 comics by Dynamite. He's back and he's ready for some mayhem! (Comic Artist: Carlo Lauro)

2023 (Negaduck comic) (SLIGHT SPOILER)- Referenced from a panel of the Negaduck 2023 comic by Dynamite. Negaduck finds the Midas Gauntlet. I'm super excited to see what happens in issue #4. (Comic Artist: Ciro Cagialosi)

Me?Drawing canon characters that aren’t Villains/the fearsome five? Its more likely than you think 🧐

Fun fact:This is supposed to be a redraw of the newest Justice Ducks cover that was said to have used a/i and to have traced from James Silvani (Who was actually an artist for the 2010’s DWD comics.) I in no way have been supporting the Dynamite series and I do not support the fact they’ve been shown to trace well known DWD artists instead of just hiring them.

So not too long ago, I decided to pay for my very first art commission ever - to James Silvani, who did the original Darkwing comics run.

My request was a certain scene from the little mermaid "Why Eric, run away with you? This is all so... so sudden~") but with Darkwing and Morgana. Today, it arrived!

THE HIGH-PITCHED GIGGLE-FIT I'M HAVING RIGHT NOW

WHEN I DIE I WANT THIS BURIED WITH ME

IT'S SO ADORABLE AND HILARIOUS IT'S EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT

Magica de Spell and Morgana Macawber making magic potions - Witch School - Duckverse and Darkwing Duck - Gift for my friend

I should have done this earlier, but for some reason I didn't manage until now, but I'm definitely posting a new drawing that my friend requested me to do.

I drew Magica de Spell and Morgana Macawber, famous duck witches who work together to make magic potions and teach their female students how to master them. Yes, usually Magica and Morgana were rivals, as Magica is an evil witch who wants the One Dime, while Morgana is a good witch, though sometimes bad when it comes to business and their conflict is explained in more detail in the Darkwing Duck comics (especially by James Silvani).

However, they can also be good partners regarding their common interests. So I drew them together throwing powder and casting a spell on making new potions. Apart from them, there are also Minima De Spell (Magica's niece) hugging Ratface (poor him, Magica's pet crow by the way), Streghella de Spell (also Magica's niece and a student at the witch school), Paperelfo (Magica's apprentice assistant), Hocus and Pocus (Magica's students who go to school for witches, mostly appearing in Egmont comics), Roberta (Magica de Spell's best friend and partner in evil spells, appearing in Italian comics), Witch Hazel (you know her from Trick or Treat, but she is also a friend of Magica and Madam Mim from the comics), Madam Mim (you know her from The Sword in the Stone, but she often appears in Donald Duck comics, as a friend of Magica De Spell), Poe De Spell (brother Magica de Spell who appeared in the Ducktales 1987 version as a crow) and Aunt Nasty (Morgana's aunt). I mostly combined from the OG Ducktales, Darkwing Duck and Donald Duck comics, but in my own way.

I hope you like this drawing and the set of witches as well as the witch school as well as the crossover of Ducktales, Duck comics and Darkwing Duck, although to me it's all the same universe, no matter how much someone thinks otherwise. By the way, this is a gift for my friend, who asked for this, @boingodigitalart. Feel free to like and reblog this, just don't use my same ideas without crediting me. Thank you!

The Rocketeer by  James Silvani

Possible generative AI art was supposedly used and "slightly edited"!?!?

Fuck... This is not good...

I knew there was some shit going down with the Dynamite Comics run in terms of traced art and Fantagraphics using art from James Silvani's run as cover art despite the fact none of his work was in those Disney Afternoon collections. I just didn't realize how serious this shit was getting.

Darkwing Duck #4

by Ian Brill; James Silvani; Andrew Dalhouse and Deron Bennett

Boom! Studios

Boom! Studios Tales Of The Disney Afternoon - Rightful Owners - Ruby or Not Ruby? By James Silvani

I did find some context for yesterday's post.

It's the work of British actor James Lawson.

He wrote and performed the dramatic sketch "Humanity", which was immediately successful, and for the rest of his career he was known and billed as "Humanity" Lawson. In the piece, based on an actual event, Lawson plays the part of a Jew, Silvani, who has an unfaithful gentile wife. He fights his wife's lover in a spectacular scene in which everything on stage is smashed to pieces, and the stairway on which they are fighting eventually collapses, killing them both. According to W. J. MacQueen-Pope: "It is human nature to enjoy seeing things smashed up, and Lawson satisfied the most demanding of smash fans… People went to see it in myriads for years; it made no difference that they knew every word, every bit of business. There was always that wholesale smash-up which was irresistible."