For those who are too lazy to copy-paste.

http://cartoons.courrierinternational.com/dessins/galerie.asp?dos_id=2623&obj_id=62060&page=3
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scandalicious!

Woah...

Quite scandalous indeed...

oh wow, that is eerily too close for comfort.

The Killing Tree 2

oh snap!

Oh Damn.

yikes

And I believe the designer is French, so it really makes you wonder...

oh snap!

and what's even worse is you start wondering about his other designs . . .

;D

wow....the clown is even on the same side!

oh snap!

well, it's not the first ripoff that's got printed.

This shirt has become an instant collector's item.

Here we go again...

it's only logical that the clown should be in the third bed. it's like the punchline. unless you are japanese or jewish and see the clown first.

snitches wind up in ditches

or at least that is what we say down at the social club......

oh wait....never mind you didn't hear nuthin


yeah that does appear to be kill tree part deux material.

swp , ROUND 2.... FIGHT

whoooa that not nice! what a ripoff

FINISH HIM!

PLAGIRISAMLITY.....EXCELLENT

i saw what i believe to be the original highway robbery at the virgin megastore in chicago. it was executed much better. tless staff, you could taxi down and go check it out. its on the second floor, theres an gas price related tshirt display.

wow this dude got 1500 dollars because he stole someone elses design...get em threadless

This was subbed Jun 30 '06 ... if those awards are 06 - when was the picture done - iit could be the other way round :)

the awards were in april, it looks like

so it depends when the picture was drawn. I love how people instantly think stuff on threadless is ripped - it could be the other way round, noone should jump to conclusions.

Oh shit.

while the designer may have stolen the idea, isn't it legally acceptable if the design is changed... 30%? I can't remember the exact number... something about you can't claim ownership to ideas, etc etc...

i thought the staff used this argument in another thread for another shirt.

or am I completely confused here?

anyway, if that's the case, then all anyone can really do is say FOR SHAME.

and thats it...

The text with the picture

The prices of the second edition of World Press Cartoons were decreed in Sintra, close to Lisbon, on Thursday April 20. This demonstration, which international Courrier is associated, became one of the great world appointments of the tuck pattern. This year, 464 drawings exposed (in Sintra, in Central farming Olga Cadaval, until May 20), are signed there by 213 draughtsmen resulting from 48 countries. The jury, chaired by António Antunes - the draughtsman who, with his comparse Rui Paulo da Cruz, journalist and realizer, is at the origin of the demonstration - decreed 17 prices and mentions in three categories: leading drawing, caricatures and drawing of humour. Here. They prove once again - if need be - that the feather of the draughtsman is not made to cherish but scratch. And also to tickle. And sometimes to transport. Or, for the statement differently, to laugh, react, reflect.

oh noes!!

Woooah.

holy moly!

Hear the sound of rapidly dissipating artistic integrity.

Booo.

This artist has been printed atleast 2 times...

el snapo!

Just shows, never trust the french!! ZUT PUR TU MONSIEUR!! ZUT I SAY!!

le gasp

Take back the prize money.

Give it to me.

Maybe they're the same person

That is what I'm hoping. Because I like this person's stuff in general.

Ok, I finally figured out a logical explaination to this. UberRyan's brother must have gotten Apy's password, logged on, and submitted this design.

apy definitely improved on the artwork. Not an original concept, apparently, but so it goes.

ahah jpiatt. That explanation will never die, will it?

haha ofthcoast, nope....not for the small percentage of people who remember that

Arrrgh. STEALING IS NOT COOL, PEOPLE, WHEN WILL YOU LEEAARRRNNN?!