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A comment on Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site. Parent comment

Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by clockworkhavoc on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:08PM (#35058780)
The site design is a blatant ripoff of ligne claire [1], famously pioneered by French comic artist Hergé, creator of The Adventures of Tintin series.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ligne_claire

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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by sofaygo on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:41PM (#35059277)
What does your comment even mean? If I were to create an original piece of art of an famous style, would that be considered a “blatant rip-off”? For a sanity check, here’s the website of the artist that created this original illustration: https://janneiivonen.net/about
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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by clockworkhavoc on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:27PM (#35059961)
Wait, you mean to say this fraud didn't even design his own site? Regardless, it's clearly ripping off of a well-known art style. Disingenuous to claim "deep, strong branding" when it's simply a cheap imitation. What a joke.
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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by scolapato on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:14PM (#35058880)
Blatant ripoff, or homage?
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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by arkitaip on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @01:42PM (#35059295)
It is simply impossible to ripoff an entire style of drawing.
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Re:Haraldur Thorleifsson's Personal Site by espadrine on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @02:51PM (#35060262)
It predates Hergé. Bécassine did it two decades prior. It is so old that it will enter public domain next June (death of the artist + 70 years in France).
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