Criticisms And Plagiarism Charges OnTodd Goldman’s Works Of Art
The prime mover of David and Goliath, Todd Goldman is the talk of the town for so many reasons. One, David and Goliath’s revenues in 2004 had breached the $90 million mark. Two, his controversial slogans irked a lot of people in 2004 & 2008. Third, he was charged of plagiarism in 2007.
Todd Goldman started out as a CPA after finishing college with an accounting degree although he enjoyed painting in his earlier years and in fact, he even attended an art academy. He went into the apparel industry when he got burned out working as an accountant. He launched David and Goliath, a merchandise company, with the money his father lent him. The company had its early beginnings in Clearwater, Florida in 2000. It also lists accessories, bags, books, and sleepwear as its products.
Goldman became notorious because of his slogans printed on his merchandise. Slogans such as “Boys are stupid, throw rocks at them!” were much talked about in 2004. Glenn Sacks started a campaign against Goldman’s slogan shirts which led to the pullout of Todd art merchandise from various retailers such as Nordstrom, Disney Store, K-Mart, and Dapy in 2005. A year later, Goldman also published a book with the same title as his infamous slogan. That book even had its Russian translation. Goldman also released a game “Boys Are Stupid” and “Stupidopoly”. On that same year, Jack Gallery started featuring Todd art.
In April 2007, Dave Kelly, a web cartoonist, accused Todd Goldman of plagiarism. He accused Goldman of copying his Purple Pussy comic which he published in 2001 in coming up with his own “Dear God Make Everyone Die”. The following month, Goldman agreed to a settlement with Kelly by giving the latter all the revenues the former earned all Todd art paintings. In return, Kelly was to drop all charges against Goldman. In June 2007, Goldman worked with FOX on “The Uglies”, a show about the ugliest family in the entire world. During fall, he also published “Girls Are WeirdosBut They Smell Pretty”. A year later, he also worked with Ashton Kutcher in designing a BLAHgirls.com.
Pop-Factory was also established in July 2008 to sell his Todd art paintings. Goldman’s roster of clients includes the Wayans Brothers, John Goodman, Paul McCartney, Rihanna, and Jessica Simpson. His T-shirt designs are very popular with people from all walks of life. Sense magazine published an interview with Goldman wherein he shared his sentiments regarding all these controversies. He said that he has his own design people in Florida who design his t-shirts. Some of these shirt designs were made into pieces of art by the man himself. He thought all images produced by his team were all original. He admitted that one of his workers may have taken inspirations from the works of Dave Kelly. Goldman got an image from those shirt designs to make a great work of art and named it “Dear God Make Everyone Die”. His artwork was displayed at Jack Gallery and when somebody saw it, the whole internet brouhaha started. When he realized what’s happening, he gave the revenues from the paintings to Dave Kelly, worth $10,000, and apologized. Although there was no lawsuit, people in the internet just kept talking about the whole thing.
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The works of Todd Goldman can be viewed by clicking on https://www.coachmkt.com/decoratorsartgallery/decorators-art-gallery/todd-goldman.html. The great pieces of Todd art can also be purchased from the same site.