The image just below this text is an illustration of a photograph that appeared in the "TAGGED JERRY" section of this blog. I was contacted by a friend of the person in the image, they asked me to remove the photograph as the context of this blog misrepresents their friend as a gay male or as the intro to this blog previously compared the Jerrys in the world of men to "One of those faggots from American Samoa".
He didn't like the idea of being thought of as a faggot!! SOME CHANGES WERE MADE.
I removed the original photograph one that I had sourced from the public domain of the internet, more specifically BEBO. But I can't seem to let it go. Clearly there are some issues around intellectual copyright in terms of claiming ownership of an image authored by someone else but as none of these images appeared on the net with copyright protection I had such a hard time justifying to my own creative process why I should have to care.
However, good practice I.E. one that considers the polite engagements of its audience surely should be able to make room for peoples responses. This is after all the nature of having something exist in a public space. Even if it is online. Although the image below is inspired by the photograph I was asked to remove I feel confident in posting it back on the blog as now I am the original "Author" of this image. I just liked the photograph so much, I couldn't help but want to keep drawing him again & again.
Finally if you have a picture of yourself send it through. I'd like to draw you. The other images have been consensually appropriated into JERRYS and were submitted by sexy boys from BEBO.
Heart you BEBO BOYS...
JERRY
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