Recently, my webcomic has been reviewed by The Floating Lightbulb, a website dedicated to webcomics. The review is generally positive, but the more startling thing about it is that it also reviewed a different comic named “Ripeville” that features fruit characters.

When I first checked out Ripeville, I thought, gee, someone stole my idea but used fruits instead! But when I read a bit further, the author of the comic started his comics in May 2007, while my site started in Jan 2008. Now am I the one who stole someone’s concept?

After crying and panicking in the bathroom for about two hours (just kidding), I calmed down and came to the conclusion that it’s really a coincident and no one stole no one’s concept. The reviewer of my comics later wrote to me, “As far as your comic resembling Joe’s (the creator of Ripeville), it is startling but this has happened before in comics. I’m just damned if I can think of a good example right now.” Well, Garfield vs. Heathcliff, for one immediately comes to my mind, and they are not webcomics to begin with.

Now I think about it, when I first started Chloroville, I already was aware of a children TV show called “Veggie Tales”, but I knew I would not be copying them because 1) my drawing style is totally different from theirs and 2) the content would be very different and geared towards adult 3) I have never watched a single episode, because I don’t know when the show starts and I am working in an office during weekdays.
There! Let’s move on and draw more comics!