I want to be happy and say I told you so but I really cant do it, this really isn’t something I am pleased about. Over the last few weeks since we broke the story about Ray Harryhausen and Strictly Ink a great deal of what I will call “unpleasant things” have been said. Throughout all of this we stood by the story because it was true, and now considering the statement released by the official Harryhausen site, I guess perhaps some of the doubters should reconsider some of the things that they are willing to believe, or at least consider the source.
The best defence is the truth, and that’s what we reported. It resulted in threads being closed, people refusing our ads, lies being told and a lot of unhappy folks, BUT it has also hopefully helped to stop a great creator from being robbed of his rights for nothing more than some sketch cards. Ray Harryhausen has a Charity Foundation and they have not seen a penny of the money from these cards. Some of the industries top artists have been working on these yet on many of the cards no copyright information appears at all.
In this day in age that really should have raised some red flags for anything that’s not already public domain, but then again Strictly Ink have been in business for a long time so I cant blame people for giving them the benefit of the doubt. I don’t know what the fallout from this will be, but hopefully Ray will not get ripped off any more and some of the less than polite things being said will stop. We should have no place in the Hobby for this sort of thing.