Todd Goldman has made a lot of money selling art and apparel with his artwork on it. His company, David & Goliath is best known for a shirt that says "Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them." I've always hated Goldman's work — the art is unappealing and the messages he conveys are just sad. Another reason I found for disliking his work is that some of it appears to have been swiped from other artists.
Here's a large gallery of other artist's images alongside Goldman's art. Does Goldman copy other artists? You be the judge.
Jay says:
Had to be just a matter of time before something like this showed up, and it'll probably be a shorter time until it gets pulled from the interweb shelves from some angry punters!
This tee was inspired by the Todd Goldman debacle of recent times, where he was caught borrowing other people's artwork.
More on the Todd Goldman scandal:
Evan says: "I found one of his own(?) designs which pretty much says it all."
Dirk Deppey says:
After covering an example of plagiarism on the part of Todd "David & Goliath" Goldman, who has acknowledged creating a painting stolen from cartoonist Dave Kelley, The webcomics news site Fleen has received a "cease and desist" letter from a lawyer claiming to represent Goldman, demanding that they take down… well, read for yourself:
"We have acquired articles posted on your website which contain defaming, derogatory and malicious statements about Mr. Goldman. Therefore, we request that you immediately remove these article from your website, as well as any subsequent articles and/or URL links of this nature regarding Mr. Goldman. Further, the hosting of such statements and/or URL links about Mr. Goldman is actionable defamation and libel that has caused irreversible damage to his character."
Please note that the specific items that Goldman wants removed in order to avoid legal action are never actually listed in the letter.
Here's a funny anecdote about running into Goldman at his gallery in Hollywood.
There were paintings of lamps that looked as if they had been done by "getting old ain't so bad" greeting card illustrators. Mr. Bill-like cartoon faces, with no perceivable expression or appeal, stared sightlessly off white canvas. Seemingly random depictions of household objects bore zany witticisms scrawled atop.
"Jesus wept," someone said, "this shit is TERRIBLE."
Instantly, he was upon us. The artist himself, lurking at a nearby cafe table and supervising the reactions of the gallery's passerby, leapt to his feet and verbally laid into us. Sputtering and red, he demanded to know what we had said about him, if we knew who we were dealing with, and who the hell we thought we were. We pointed and laughed at the poor crazy man who couldn't draw, and went to a movie.
Kyle found this:
Left: a "NEW!!!" design from the David &
Goliath web store (left), and one of Kyle's all-time favorite Threadless tees (right).
