>>Thats what I thought - makes me wonder why some artists bother. Surely by the time youve ploughed thru a dozen comicbooks looking for a shot to rob, you could have just drawn it yourself?<<

this may go back to what JB said a page or three back -- the differance between looking at how someone else solved a certain art problem  (which is part of what you can learn from copying - tho' that still should be in a sketchbook, not a published comic) - and finding an image NEAT so you look for a place to make it your own by tracing.

Alan Davis is a great artist who does so much of everything right that it's easy to find alot of his stuff "Neat" - never the less, even if Mr. Perkins found this as a SOLUTION for a problem - he still should have drawn from it, not traced over it as the linework shows he did -- too much else in the image shows he's a capable artist on his own.

This is directed towards Erik, as publisher of Image, what would you do if you saw an Image comic that was about to be published and you realized that

1) Panels inside were copied from copyrighted photos (that the artist did not own), for example the cover to last week's People Magazine.  

or

2) Panels/poses inside were copied from a Neal Adams issue of Batman. 

Would you tell the artist to change it, talk to the person about it or publish it no questions asked or something else?