I very much doubt you'll find anything attributed to Hobbes, or even much attributed to 'Thorn', nowadays, Banjo.
I too have often wondered if Julian Guile Hobbes (or Hobbs) and Thorn are all the same person. The problem is that it can be quite dangerous to host work attributed to ‘Thorn’ on one’s blog. A certain person claiming to own an original work by Hobbes pops up and threatens to use copyright issues to get the blog closed down – I’ve had such threats issued twice and had my ‘Picasaweb’ albums closed down because of it.
The accusation this individual levels is that this ‘Thorn’ is a plagiarist who has simply added his signature to the work of ‘Hobbes. The threat works and you’d be hard pressed to find much attributed to Thorn nowadays on the web – I took my entire collection down. But I have never seen anything signed ‘Hobbes’ whereas work signed ‘Thorn’ has to my knowledge been around on the web since the late 90s. And why doesn’t the artist himself step forward if his work is being plagiarized? Or is he deceased?
If this Hobbes is deceased then the other issue I have is how new work can surface on the covers of a certain brand on-line adult comic books (graphic novels) to this very day signed ‘Thorn’ and very much obviously the work of the same artist whereas I’m given to understand ‘Hobbes’ no longer works (deceased? Can’t remember) and that all those ‘plagiarised’ works are old.
In fact I was told Hobbes’ work appeared in various old-time spanking magazines but I have never been supplied with information as to precisely which, despite asking the chap concerned several times. In addition, I have a massive collection of spank mags going back to the late 70s and have never, ever, seen anything signed Hobbes or anything in the same style – at least that I remember, whereas the work attributed to Julian Guile is so close as to be virtually (to my eye at least) indistinguishable, both in style and in subject matter.
I too have often wondered if Julian Guile Hobbes (or Hobbs) and Thorn are all the same person. The problem is that it can be quite dangerous to host work attributed to ‘Thorn’ on one’s blog. A certain person claiming to own an original work by Hobbes pops up and threatens to use copyright issues to get the blog closed down – I’ve had such threats issued twice and had my ‘Picasaweb’ albums closed down because of it.
The accusation this individual levels is that this ‘Thorn’ is a plagiarist who has simply added his signature to the work of ‘Hobbes. The threat works and you’d be hard pressed to find much attributed to Thorn nowadays on the web – I took my entire collection down. But I have never seen anything signed ‘Hobbes’ whereas work signed ‘Thorn’ has to my knowledge been around on the web since the late 90s. And why doesn’t the artist himself step forward if his work is being plagiarized? Or is he deceased?
If this Hobbes is deceased then the other issue I have is how new work can surface on the covers of a certain brand on-line adult comic books (graphic novels) to this very day signed ‘Thorn’ and very much obviously the work of the same artist whereas I’m given to understand ‘Hobbes’ no longer works (deceased? Can’t remember) and that all those ‘plagiarised’ works are old.
In fact I was told Hobbes’ work appeared in various old-time spanking magazines but I have never been supplied with information as to precisely which, despite asking the chap concerned several times. In addition, I have a massive collection of spank mags going back to the late 70s and have never, ever, seen anything signed Hobbes or anything in the same style – at least that I remember, whereas the work attributed to Julian Guile is so close as to be virtually (to my eye at least) indistinguishable, both in style and in subject matter.