Shameless plagiarism

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Ha, i've just remembered, I shamelessly plagarised elements of Bad Blood for a creative writing assignment at university when the deadline was looming and I was very short on inspiration. I got 68% for it!

... says Joe on the Jaime Delano thread. Which reminds me, I plagiarised Animal Man #25 (The comics limbo one with the Shakespeare-writing monkey) for a English essay when I was 12, and got awarded a WHSmith Young Writers' Prize for it!

...And then when I interviewed Cameron S., he told me he won a prize for plagiarising a Peter Milligan story... (and when he was at high school, he'd copy Brian Bolland's AM covers and pass them off as his own.)

So, is plagiarism a high school comics' fan's rite of passage?

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Saturday, 8 October 2005 00:30 (twenty years ago)

Haha, my oldest friend D when doing his final Eng Lit thesis at Cambridge, on William Blake, got only one negative comment from his tutor on it, that being a '!!!???' next to the line (and I wish I could recall the final word) "like unto a thing of..." - from Iron Fist, if you're mystified. It was the only thing he had to change.

I recall the one time I got a higher mark than him on an English essay in school was when I nicked an SF story. I can vaguely remember the lame story, but I can't remember the source - might even have been a comic.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 8 October 2005 09:44 (twenty years ago)

Well, I quoted "with great power comes great responsibility" in a Press Journalism exam last year, and atributed it to "famous 20th century journalist Spider Jerusalem". Passed it, too (that was a weird, weird class.)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 8 October 2005 10:20 (twenty years ago)

It's a lot easier to get away with plagarising Delano or Milligan than it is with Dostoyevski or Lawrence.

― chap who would dare to kill all the threads (chap), Saturday, 8 October 2005 12:53 (twenty years ago)

My friend once totally plagiarised, copied word for word, a story from a role playing mag for his English homework. The teacher wrote that it wasn't up to his usual standard!

― Raw Patrick (Raw Patrick), Saturday, 8 October 2005 14:28 (twenty years ago)

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