Ziggy Memories

Plagiaristic fiction is out (sorry Kaavya Viswanathan) and plagiaristic cartooning is in. Just a few weeks ago a New Yorker cartoonist (J.C. Duffy) was accused of plagiarism for this sketch (used for the caption contest):


Jack Kirby created the following cover for Marvel Comics in 1962:


Duffy calls it an "overt reference." See the story in the Post.

Then today I read the Monty strip--


--and recalled an oddly similar scene in The New Yorker a couple of issues ago. By the way, I am not above stealing ideas...after spending far too long designing and redesigning this blog's layout, I found inspiration from Wilco.