Who Watches the Weichmen?
Saturday, August 4, 2012 at 1:51PM forewarning: all of my commentary below is opinion, albeit with lots of facts mixed in. There, I'm now indemnified.
I can be a prick sometimes. I fully acknowledge and accept this.
However, my definition of prick is someone who doesn’t sit quietly while a load of bullshit is dumped at their feet and told “this is brilliance, enjoy!”. Generally, when someone is obnoxiously pushing people to believe they're the coolest cat with a heart of steel, I know enough to call them on it.
Anyway this is going to be one of those times and one of those posts of calling someone on something, so if you’re sensitive and think this qualifies as bullying…well, you’ve never met a chap by the name of Graig F. Weich.
Graig is a purported comic professional (at least according to him, though he's produced three comic books in something like twelve years) and he has a resume that’s six pages long, and most important, he’s the greatest and most versatile creator since Leonardo Da Vinci.
Now I write this post knowing full well that I’m doing several things: delaying a trip to the gym, taking an hour or so away from writing a first draft of a spec script that needs to be finished by the end of the month, and, most importantly, wasting time.
The analogy I’ve used about bringing some of the stuff that’s coming up to Graig’s attention is that it’s like playing chess against a pigeon. Yeah, I’ll dominate with a series of moves to make Kasparov jealous, but at the end of the day, what’s the point? The pigeon won’t care. He’ll just strut back and forth across the board, knocking over chess pieces and taking shits randomly.
All of this is known and acknowledged, but I can’t keep my mouth shut on this. Sorry.
I met Graig in college. If I hadn’t, I wouldn’t be writing this up right now because I would know fuck-all about him and wouldn’t give a shit. He really isn't worth the time....and yet somehow I'm writing this. Go figure.
Graig was the consummate fanboy, more concerned with getting autographs from some of our more famous teachers than, say, absorbing lessons on improving his work.
This is the guy who presented Joe Orlando, at the time a fucking senior VP at DC Comics, with three pages of comic art he plagiarized from John Byrne’s Man of Steel mini-series (the issue where Batman chases the thug down an alley; Graig claimed it wasn’t plagiarism since he changed the thug, Bull, into the Joker) and pitched a fit when he was exposed.
Let’s get this one out of the way, since it’s his biggest claim to fame.
On varying websites (his own and others where he posts with a host of pseudonyms), you’ll see a variation of:
Graig Weich was the featured poster artist for Todd Mcfarlane's Spawn
So yes, there’s a double page spread in Spawn 30 by him. However…
A) He drew that long before as a fan piece;
B) He submitted it to Image comics because, if memory serves, at the time they were running fan art in every issue. Stuff by kids, mostly, but anyone could submit something, which was chosen either by Todd McFarlane or someone on his staff
This, then, is not professional work. You can say first work published in a comic, sure.
But ‘featured poster artist’ implies that this was work for hire. And it wasn’t. No money changed hands. I know this because we were both sophomores at the School of Visual Arts in 1994, when this whole thing went down. He showed up in class with a letter from McFarlane’s studio that his Spawn-Angela drawing had been selected to appear in an upcoming issue.
Now far be it from me to shit on someone’s ice cream cake. It’s pretty cool to get your work featured anywhere if you’re an artist.
But for fuck’s sake, that was eighteen years ago.
That can’t really be the peak of his life, right? It’s like Danny Bonaduce running around going “I WAS ON THE MOTHERFUCKING PARTRIDGE FAMILY” forty years later, and when asked what he’s done since, mumbles something about reality television and every drug known to man.
So what’s Graig done since? Well, I know he’s been pushing a couple of comics initiatives since at least 2002 (and produced a grand total of two comics, kind of sad for a guy who loves the medium so much), including a sickening twist that the villains in his Civilian Justice destroyed the World Trade Center in an effort to recover an ancient artifact.
Take a minute and let that sink in. A year after September 11th, this guy uses the building’s destruction as a comic book plot involving aliens and David Prowse.
Fuck. This. Shit. I need a minute here.
All right. Deep breath. Well. Let’s just catch up on what Graig has been up to in the last ten years by taking a look at his resume.
Holy shit this thing is long.
Ah, okay. I see. Part of the problem is that he considers an appearance on a television show ‘employment’.
Calling in to the Howard Stern show and proclaiming “I drew something that was in Spawn!” is nice, but it’s not employment. (What I wanna know is why does the video only have his end of the conversation and not Howard’s response? Did he get laughed at and hung up on?)
Nine times out of nine, it seems the only objective Graig has is to get someone famous to say his name while being recorded, at which point it’s off to Final Cut Pro to make it look like something important, rather than a chance encounter.
There’s also listed on the resume this tidbit:
Batman: Forever, the Movie
Now I remember this bit from our first month back for senior year. He hung this piece of art in the media rooms and called himself the ‘official poster artist for Batman Forever’, which led to this conversation between him and I outside of our portfolio class:
Me: Did Warner Brothers hire you to do that?
Graig: I drew the poster, yeah.
Me: But did Warner Brothers hire you? They paid you?
Graig: What does that matter?
Me: Because you’re lying. You’re not the official poster artist of the movie if they didn’t pay you for it. I’m sure their legal department would like to know you’re passing yourself off as such….
So now, he modified it to as the more likely bit of truth:
The United Artist movie theater in Times Square hired me to do Promotional BatMan Artwork
Well, still really dubious, and unless he’s got tax returns or receipts from them to prove the claim, probably bullshit.
Hmmm. Now here’s something that shows up both on his resume and on his bio page:
Our CEO, Graig F. Weich of Beyond Comics was interviewed on 20/20 ABC News MTV & FOX for his New SuperHeroes: "Ravedactyl" (coming soon) & “Code Name: Justice" (formally Civilian Justice)
Fact check time:
So was he really interviewed by 20/20? Yes.
But was it in reference to his ‘new SuperHeroes’?
According to the accompanying story on ABC’s 20/20 website regarding this episode in particular….not so much.
The episode title was "Food: Myths, Lies and Straight Talk”
Hmmm…that sounds suspiciously non-comics related.
"20/20" picked a random couple and asked if they'd ever had a bad experience in a restaurant or thought they'd ever gotten food poisoning. Their answer? Yes.
"I had probably the worst 48 hours of food poisoning in my life, to the point where I thought it was over. I said, 'That's it. My life is officially going to end any moment now,' " said Graig Weich.
Despite the horrible experience, Weich seemed resigned to the thought that there's a food-poisoning threat lurking in all restaurants. "The truth of the matter is, is that no matter how nice a restaurant is, you don't know what's going on in the kitchen," he said.
Uh oh. That’s not comic-related at all. But let’s keep reading.
But what about our own kitchens? Nealon agreed to look at Weich and his girlfriend, Liga's, kitchen.
The peanut brittle they had left out was not a good idea. It's an invitation to bugs, Nealon said. He suggests putting food in a vermin-proof container after it's been removed from its original packaging.
He also noticed Weich's microwave oven smelled a little funky. "When in doubt, throw it out," Nealon advises.
Kitchen sponges, it turns out, are the No. 1 cause of food poisoning in the home.
Watching the full video and interview, it’s more about the mess in his kitchen than his ‘new SuperHeroes’. Actually, it’s not about them at all. Just a bit of advice on keeping a clean kitchen.
Back in February, New York 1 news stopped me as I passed the World Trade Center site to ask me about problems the leasing agency was having getting tenants to commit to the new Freedom Tower. For the rest of the morning my face would pop up every twenty minutes or so answering the questions asked. I didn’t realize that qualified as work experience. I’ll update my resume.
And from the same page:
Weich’s comic goes to #1!
What in the ever lovin’ fuck does that even mean? Number one what? I guess it’s easy to make bold claims when you keep it vague and don’t need to worry about backing it up.
But hold on, we have some updated news!!!
"Graig Weich gets cast in the Dark Knight Rises 3rd Batman film!!!"
This is the full cast listing for The Dark Knight Rises on IMDB. Go take a look and let me know when you find the name ‘Graig Weich’. I’ll be here when you get back.
Back? So soon?
Okay, how’d you do?
What?? There’s no listing for him? That’s not possible, it says “cast in the Dark Knight Rises”. A casting means his agent got him a part, which would lead to a credit in the film.
It can’t be a case of being cast as an extra, one of the hundreds involved in the cops versus criminals clash on Wall Street at the end and it’s being played up as something that it isn’t. I don’t believe it. Nobody would do that—
Wait, his resume says “Spider-Man 1 and 3: Appearing in the feature film by Columbia-Sony Pictures making a cameo principal-lead speaking role”?
Spider-Man the Sam Raimi movie?
Well, okay….there he is in the crowd when Uncle Ben is found dying outside the New York Public Library….but he doesn’t say anything. There’s no speaking role. And never mind the fact that you can’t be both a ‘cameo’ and a principal-lead speaking role’.
Hugh Jackman was a principal-lead in all three X-Men movies. He had a two word cameo in X-Men: First Class. There’s a difference.
And looking at the credits on IMDB again….nope, no sign of his name.
This can’t be yet another case of being an extra and pushing it as something more, can it?
I mean, that’s just dishonest. Unethical. Would Superman lie like this? More importantly....What Would Batman Do?
Hey, look, he appeared on Buried Treasure and was crushed to learn that the copies of comics he owns (including Amazing Fantasy 15, the first appearance of Spider-Man, Incredible Hulk 1, etc) are not worth the hundreds of thousands of dollars he thought they would be because they’re not in great condition. Wait, he pitched a fit when he found out that a Max Fleischer Superman animation cel would only get him $58,000 (rather than the hundreds of thousands he expected) and cut the video to make it look like there was a ‘final offer’ of one hundred thousand dollars? Really?
Graig can manipulate the video all he likes (including overlaying an image of one of his characters over his wife during the Buried Treasure segment, but also digitally adding scenes of Kevin Smith nodding his head during the Comic Book men segment), but the original video tells the truth. Kevin Smith wasn’t in the shop, and his wife was on the show when it aired. And I'm going out on a limb and guessing he had some variation of a forgery when he proclaimed he was offered $100K by Metropolis Collectibles for the Superman cel.
What’s really great, and what, to me, caps his hypocritical bullshit off with a smile, is the fact that his animation cel, the Max Fleischer animation cel he took forever to track down (and serious kudos to him for doing that) and obtain, the thing that inspired him to go into comics….is something he was willing to go try selling to Nic Cage for hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Once he realizes that avenue is closed and he’s not going to get more than fifty-eight grand, well, suddenly it’s a sentimental thing and he can’t part with it.
Even better, he shows up on Comic Book Men a few weeks later, carrying both the 'sentimental animation cel' and an offer made by Metropolis Collectibles, trying to sell it to Jay Mewes' shop.
Just how sentimental is this damned thing, anyway?
The odd thing is that Liga (his wife, also known as rectangular piece of art covering her up when he’s asking if he should sell his Superman cel) says flat out at the start of the Buried Treasure episode they need money to move into a bigger place. He probably convinced her they could retire on what they sold his collection of stuff for beforehand.
But hey, if you want help out a guy who’s down on his luck, buy a signed copy (or more than ten, anyway) of Gekido versus Code Name Justice (even though it sold out at San Diego Comic Con….wait, what? It sold out but there are more than ten copies….my head hurts), by going here. Just so long as you don’t mind spending eight bucks on the comic and twice that on shipping (what the ever loving fuck? How is it being shipped?).
Then again, I can ask what kind of schizophrenia is involved when the seller (rdactyl1, which is clearly Graig) is writing in the comments
Hi!
I am selling my friend's Art work for him, Here is what he said:
Tip for you, Graig: use a different selling alias. Something not identifiable with one of your characters. Gives you a bit more credibility.
Look, I’m a writer. I deal with people for whom bullshit flows freely. I was born in Brooklyn. I grew up with bullshit artists. I can spot it a mile away.
Telling an interviewer
I began working out overtime; I lost 24 pounds for the role actually
when you’re an extra?
Yeah, I don’t think so.
I feel genuinely bad for some of these guys that interview him that don’t realize they’re being spun.
If he’d come out proclaiming “Hey, this is so cool, I was an extra in Spider-Man and Dark Knight Rises, and I made it into the final cut”, sure, that is definitely cool.
Shit, I was an extra in an ultra low budget direct-to-DVD flick called Quarter Life Crisis and I’m not pitching it as anything other than sixteen seconds of screen time.
Nor am I carrying on about being a ‘featured lead actor’ in a documentary on the New York Rangers winning the ’94 Stanley Cup because yeah it’s kind of cool, but at the end of the day it’s just a cool little thing. It’s not the end-all be-all.
And I'm sure as shit not editing these videos together and manipulating entertainment news videos to portray myself as the lead in a movie where I have five seconds of screen time.
But maybe that’s the problem. When your life is one big tall tale pile of bullshit stories about non-disclosure contracts and not-so-skillfully avoiding an honest answer to a question, like this:
GPX: I also hear that filming is taking place all over the world. How far did you have to travel for these parts?
GW: A lot of people did have to travel in but since I am a 5th generation native New Yorker, I thought I didn't hace to travel to far
You didn’t travel far because you were an extra called for a shoot in New York. Instead of saying that, it’s got to be a big production to protect the lie. Ugh.
Maybe this is really as good as life gets for him. Maybe all of the delusions, all of the regressed mentality stuff have made something snap.
Oh well. Enough of this. The pigeon is in checkmate. I eagerly await his counter move* while I go off and have a life.
cooo cooo cooo <knock over bishop to rooks three, plop plop plop>
* Many years ago, in the web 1.0 days, I posted a few less-than-flattering stories about Graig from our days in college. A year later, I got a cease and desist letter demanding the comments be removed. I was planning on fighting it until the site owner told me he was planning on closing the site down anyway due to lack of traffic, so I let it go.
Just a heads up, Graig: this is never coming down. Ever.
9/11, Graig F Weich, Graig Weich, Ravedactyl, Rob Granito, Spawn, bullshit artist, fake, fraud, hack, liar, scam
Reader Comments (23)
Joe, you rock and I adore you and your posts, but what you wrote about your old classmate, well, I find it sad that you are bitching about some kid who must have been a teenager at the time, get over it and move on, according to what you posted this was like two decades ago, yes? I did some research because you honestly got me curious but it seems that he was in fact hired and paid to draw for Spawn, it's listed everywhere. Also, there are a million links on the guy and it seems that he is an independent artist trying to make it, not sure why you are focused on him, you remind me on Ferris Bueller's sister who was trying to get him caught, it was kind of pathetic, in the movie: ferris bueller's day off.
Well, sorry this guy haunts you.
im still your devoted fan.
Terri.
Hi Graig--sorry....Terri. Easy mistake to make, since that post is almost verbatim the last email Graig sent me earlier before I blocked his email account. I mean, it's a really random coincidence unless you happened to hack my email.
Or....nah, you can't really be Graig masquerading under different names.
Out of curiosity, though, Terri, you say it's listed everywhere. Can you show me something that says it was work-for-hire? Like actual proof and not a resume that also lists 20/20 and The Howard Stern Show as work experience when it's been confirmed that it's a lie?
I must've really hit a nerve to get Graig....er.....Terri so riled up.
I read the posts here from time to time. Sometimes they are pretty funny. I thought this particular post was hilarious. I even looked the guy up and just as it is posted here the guy does in fact fling the bs around like nobodys business. The post in his defense was funny as well. I myself couldn't find anywhere except for Mr. Weich's website where there was any proof that he got paid for that poster art. I really got to meet this guy one day. Thanks for the laughs guys. I will have to start reading this blog more often :)
I read the posts here from time to time. Sometimes they are pretty funny. I thought this particular post was hilarious. I even looked the guy up and just as it is posted here the guy does in fact fling the bs around like nobodys business. The post in his defense was funny as well. I myself couldn't find anywhere except for Mr. Weich's website where there was any proof that he got paid for that poster art. I really got to meet this guy one day. Thanks for the laughs guys. I will have to start reading this blog more often :)
Hey Joe, interesting stuff... years ago I saw an art forum where they were ripping on this guy, seemed a little brutal at times. But then I've seen the videos and the claims and... really can't defend him. I've seen the tracings on his site, where he's copied Vanity Fair "Star Wars" and some sort of comission for a Micheal Jackson tribute that looked like it was done by a third grader. But the one thing that got to me was the donations to "overlooked' victims of 9/11. As someone who lost friends on that day, I would want to know who that money went to, and how much. Did all the proceeds go to one specific charity? Did he keep half and donate half? I can't seem to find anything on the internet outside of some unknown amount went to some unknown charity. It's one thing to edit video to look like a superstar, it's another thing to misrepresent what you gave to those who suffered through 9/11. Anyway, he seems to have a ton of cash to have all that swag in his apartment, so he must be doing something right. I'd hate to think he bought it by riding the crest of 9/11
his parents are obviously rich, and have never said no. sickening and childish to make 9/11 that act of your own villain, then promote that for another one of your books (that never came out, btw). sickening, because people actually died horribly and "terri" tried to profit off of it. and childish, because only a child wouldn't understand the severity of the situation.
but it is hilarious to read graig's responses while posing as someone else. the fun is, not saying what his "tells" are. why give them away? they stick out like neon type on any pg where it's about him.
This is the actual -G R A I G-W E I C H- and no, I’m not posting under any name but my own, the lies you spread about me, Joe, are far worse than what you accuse me of and I find it sad that after 20 years since we went to school that you are still focusing on trying to rip down a fellow independent struggling artist as myself.
So for the record, though I assume you are too scared to allow this to be posted, I am addressing the important issues one time and then I’m done and you can think what you like.
Yes, I was officially hired by Todd Mcfarlane personally to be featured as the double page spread Poster Artist for issue #30 of Spawn which I penciled and inked and Steve Oliff of Olyoptics colored and they showed my art from it on the tv show A Current Affair at the time. Yes, I got paid and very well for that poster I drew and I am and will always be very grateful that he gave me my first job in comics.
Yes, I donated money to 9/11 victims who were left out of the relief funds because the family member they lost in the towers were not US Citizens so they were over looked and not eligible for the regular funds. I held a private ceremony for them when I gave the checks at Planet Hollywood, those who wanted to have the picture posted are in the photo seen on my web site. I made the book in order to help them which is exactly what I did.
They are wonderful people and I ask that you stop using my name to bring attention to your web site as I assume you heard them talk about me again on the Howard Stern show a few days ago for my new upcoming comic book which is why you found a need to try and rip me down once again. You are really a cyber-bully troll.
You are mixing up my 20/20 appearance with my interview on ABC News when my comic won the comic book museum award, two different events and why not saw 20/20, you could see my art and characters on the show and I was very blessed that they fit me into the story.
As for my characters, once again, you are mixing up and combining my 9/11 Justice tribute book with my fictional -R_A_V_E_D_A_C_T_L- book. Completely unrelated characters and events. You also mock me for taking a long time to put out books, I’m independent, it takes time to save up for color printing and to do it right so the books get seen, the other books you mentioned I have not heard of and that is why I take time with mine, so they have a chance to get heard and seen. Don’t get me wrong, I wish I could redo my Justice book and improve on it and make the message clear about people finding peace and that we are all God children so to speak, no matter where we come from or what race we are from, but the book did what it was meant to do and help those in need along with many other efforts I made including donating and being with children of Aids to name a few. Seriously, this is just pathetic that you keep spending time to bash me instead of using your attention to help others today and keep doing it currently, don’t help once and stop, keep helping, stop wasting time bashing me.
As for our teacher, Joe Orlando, God rest his soul, I miss him greatly and he was the one who announced to our class that my poster for Spawn he believed would be my first published piece and he was right. He personally gave me the assignment you are talking about in your post to RE-DRAW/Reimagine a few comic book pages in my own style, that was the assignment he gave me and why would you even think I would try to pretend that I created the Great John Byrne art who created the original art. I find it odd that you would even think that and that your life’s mission is to rip me down, just sad, I was 17 years old in school, time to let it go, Joe.
And you keep attacking me for having what you call hyped-up press releases which are made to actually help get people to the charity events to donate money to ill kids, they show that and people attend and I don’t get a dime for it. Can’t you figure out that it is a marketing tool in order to open the door for doing good things like this? Jesus Joe, you are issues. Why attack a fellow independent artist, I would understand if I was at the level of Brad Pitt or something, but I’m a God damn artist, what is wrong with you?
The fact that you are stalking everything video I am in and every write up about me and referring to it makes me feel that you are cyber stalking me as well, very creepy Joe, can you really not move on? Am I that stuck in your thoughts?
Lastly, I am involved now with many charities, donating my art in order to help raise funds for sick children, I ask that you spend your current time doing the same, instead of wasting it on this nonsense, we’re almost 40 years old for God sakes, grow the hell up and move on.
Look, I know that nothing I say will alter what you think of me, but the fact is, that I am just one guy trying to make a living and take care of my family and pay my damn bills like the rest of us so stop your bulling, enough of your BS! I’m serious.
I can’t waste any more time on this so I will have to stop here.
But as I said, I’m sure you are too scared to post this and I am sure you will write more about me, go on, give me more free press, in fact I command you to keep talking about me. My thanks in advance.
PS, If you ever want to end this feud, I would be open to that as I honestly wish you nothing but the best in your life, but sadly, I doubt you can move forward.
So I dont care about if you hate or like this guy but I pride myself for getting correcting information, and since I do actually remember seeing this poster on that TV show he lists in his comment above, I thought I would give it a go and so sure enough with my detective skills in tact, I found this, seems he really was the poster artist for spawn. I used to collect spawn and in most of the books you will see art dated over 1 year before it saw print, in fact, Spawn was known for delays in getting their books released on time. One of their big issues to deal with.
You have to go through a major approval process to get on IMDB, I know because they still wont list my work on their, but here is his Spawn work: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1903303/otherworks
I also personally remember the issue of Wizard magaine and that trading card in it, and I also remember that quote you mention in your write up but it was not listed on the card, it was in fact written in a write up in the actual issue, just get a back issue of it and you will see. I think you should check your facts before you post, makes you appear unprofessional, I am saying this as a supporter not to be an ass. I enjoy your posts but you are off the mark on this.
.R.
Well, Graig, as you can see your post is up and not censored.
However, you still have some issues with the truth.
You can't seem to separate fact from fiction. You were on Howard Stern a few days ago? This post has been up for four weeks. Explain how I wrote this as reactionary to that call-in. If you like I'll explain how we calculate the passage of time, and how short of my owning a DeLorean, that's just impossible.
More daming (for you, at least), is the IP tracking tool. Amazingly, you, Terri and Roberto are all posting from a computer with the same IP address. I haven't advertised my website anywhere except on my twitter account. Maybe you should try doing a little IP tracking of your own.
Also, if you were 17 when we were college sophmores, that would mean you started college at 15 or 16. You're not exactly Doogie Howser, buddy. The least you can do is get your own age correct, if nothing else.
But why am I surprised? You can't support any of your claims. You think this is some kind of feud or rivalry; it's not. I called you out for the bullshit you're pushing. That's it.
At least you've dropped the 'uncredited lead cameo guest appearance whatever' nonsense.
Like I said in my email before I blocked you: it doesn't take thirteen years to publish an independent comic book. You could have been using this entire time to build a brand; instead you publish one book and spend years hyping it. You don't understand how to build yourself as a brand. And you sure as hell don't understand that when you blatantly lie about your credentials and get called out on it, it's not bullying.
This is an opinion blog. MY opinion blog. I've fact-gathered and backed it up with testimony from witnesses. You? It's all the same claims as your website. No facts. No proof. Just semi-coherent rambling and victimizing.
And this is still just chess with a pigeon. Pointless, absurd, and moderately amusing.
Feel free to drop back anytime. Your comments will never be censored on this blog. I would never deprive my readers of the entertainment value of you shooting yourself in the foot.
for the record, i listen to howard every day. haven't missed an episode in YRS. there was and has been NO Graig calling in about his comic. Howard would hang up immediately. sorry dude. complete and utter bullshit.
GRAIG IS A COMMUNIST!!!!!!
By the way, Graig, I'm not sure if this is a sign of schizophrenia or not:
stop your bulling, enough of your BS! I’m serious.
go on, give me more free press, in fact I command you to keep talking about me. My thanks in advance.
Which is it?
let's not forget his Willy Modeel persona (that would be his wmvp persona on imdb for those keeping score). hmmm. this was said yrs ago. sounds familiar...
"IN FACT, I COMMAND YOU TO REPLY TO ME AND I FORCE YOU TO WASTE YOUR TIME ON ME BECAUSE YOU CLEARLY HAVE NOTHING TO DO IN YOUR SAD LIFE. "
sad indeed.....
Since Graig is reading this, can he post here how much he gave to 9/11 families and the name of the charity. And what percentage of sales was given? Do you still give a perecentage of the ebay sales of extra issues you sell?
Also in looking through his videos I don't see any charities mentioned or links to charities, as a matter of fact the latest page has some sort of money grab on the front page, but no charities can be seen?
C'mon Graig, Step up to the plate, give us those charities
Just for fun, since Graig considers himself the smartest guy in the room, I'd like to get some clarification.
There have been three comments on this post defending Graig, from 'Terri', 'Roberto', and Graig himself.
A quick check via my site stat tracker shows me the following for each account:
Comment left by 'terri'
This item was posted by an anonymous author, meaning that he or she does not have a personal account with this website.
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Email Address: Not specified.
Internet Address: cpe-66-108-21-197.nyc.res.rr.com/66.108.21.197
Comment left by 'Roberto'
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Comment left by '-G R A I G-W E I C H-'
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Three different commentors, all using the same computer and the same IP address.
On the follow up blog, two more defenders of Graig: Roberto (again) and 'Jose Ramiz'. A check of their info:
Comment left by 'Roberto'
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Internet Address: cpe-66-108-21-197.nyc.res.rr.com/66.108.21.197
Comment left by 'JOSE RAMIZ'
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Internet Address: cpe-66-108-21-197.nyc.res.rr.com/66.108.21.197
So, Graig....are these all people who live in your house and use your computer, or are you just recruiting people using the same wifi router at your local Starbucks for help?
Or are you willing to cop to being busted beyond a shadow of a doubt as using aliases to defend yourself?
Your act is stale. Roaches show more common sense scurrying for the corner when the spotlight finds them than you do.
Absolutely and utterly pathetic.
Time to grow up. No lies are being spread Graig. The truth sure is though. Your fan art was printed. Again, bravo. You got paid. Again, bravo. Senior yr of college, that's inspiring. 17 yrs old though? Haha yeah yeah, sure. Right. You are no phenom. Get over yourself. Joe has proven WITH DATES that is complete bs. Comics print dates 2-3 months in advance. With a book as late as Spawn, it still was not THAT late that they "hired you". Let's call a spade a spade and just be proud you got printed without having to inflate this. And the fact that you STILL harp on this credit to this day is amazing. Move on. You have your own work to promote. Your assertions in interviews that you "left Spawn" are incredibly to say the least. No. Greg Capullo left Spawn. After about 100 issues I believe.
Stop trying to tear you down? Not you Graig, your delicate house of cards. You've built up quite a catalog of lies and mistruths. A lot of expanding on things that were done. Your resume is a FANTASTIC read btw.
Like the videos you've edited, where the 20/20 piece is made to look like it's about your comic, and not a story about which is dirtier, a home kitchen or restaurant kitchen. This is what amazes me about you. You clearly have connections. Yet you fill them all with bullshit that's not needed. Just promote the truth. You have your own work to promote. Why fabricate to promote? Work harder on your actual work. Honestly, I don't give a fuck whether you succeed or not. I just want you to live and die by your sword. Meaning, work that YOU actually did. Not beyond hyped up work. Beyond comics indeed.
It takes time to save up for printing. Fair enough. It IS expensive. So why not put work online then? That's FREE. You're all excuses, smoke and mirrors, all flash and no substance. Sit the fuck down and work already.
This one REALLY pisses me off. Your assertion WE are confused about relating CV to Ravedactyl. If only I had proof that you DID make your villain take credit for 9/11 while promoting another comic website. Oh wait, here it is!
Really, Graig? Disgusting, sick, childish. 2,752 people didn't die so you could promote your characters that look exactly alike out of costume. Ugh. That one really gets my goat.
What gets my goat just as much is, "As for our teacher, Joe Orlando, God rest his soul, I miss him greatly…". You HAD no relationship with him. That really makes me crazy. You're like a scavenger. While I can believe he encouraged you by telling you your Spawn drawing could be printed (and why wouldn't he? He was a great teacher. He was supposed to. He was also brutally honest), I've no doubt, based on memory and other people's testimony, as well as your excuse that day, that you didn't do the assignment and just brought the copied 3 pgs from man of steel instead. I remember those pgs like it was yesterday. Tim Burton Batman, Nicholson Joker, i'm guessing Reeve Superman, and a lot of magenta on the pgs. So yeah, we don't think it. we KNOW it. Joe gave me my first assignment. If you were his golden child, we'd have heard about it by now. And I wasn’t his either. But I do know what he thought of you and your work. Again, we will spare you. Go pick at someone else's bones that you knew in passing. You're not welcome to these.
This isn't cyber-bullying. This is reporting facts. You're welcome to your opinion, but you're not welcome to your own facts. And that fact of the matter is, we've presented facts that have been backed up. You've presented more bs that's been proven to be bs. And even in this thread with the IP addresses. It never ends, and it never will. You'll continue to lie to the public, continue to pretend to be other people talking about how great and inspiring you are, and that's great if that's how you want your legacy to play out. But I think you can be better than that. This isn't about tearing you down, Graig. It's about building you up.
That didn't go too well, did it?
Custer had a better chance at Little Big Horn than Graig Weich did coming here and proving beyond all reasonable doubt that he's a complete and utter bullshit artist.
This is the actual -G R A I G-W E I C H- and no, I’m not posting under any name but my own, the lies you spread about me, Joe, are far worse than what you accuse me of
Graig Weich: exposed as a fraud again. And again. And again.
Joe Reiter,
I was googling comiccon artists and found your write up. Mr.Welch has raised a lot of money for my friend’s charity and he has always been good people to the kids. Though he doesn’t personally know me, I know of him through my friends and I hope to meet him one day. They tell me about him. He never says shit about anyone and he does a lot of good for kids. Where I come from, that means something. We look out for one another. Family can include those you respect, too, so Welch is like family to me. Do you understand me?
So listen up, if you or your lackeys write one more slanderous piece of bullshit lie about him or any more negative shit about him, my brothers and I will personally crush your fucking skull in!
We know what you look like (smart to post your photo on your sites, you dumb fuck) and you don’t know what we look like, so you’ll never see it coming, you atheist fuck.
Accidents happen every day, so go ahead, DO IT!
16 years of martial arts we’ve had, motherfucker, can’t wait to unleash it on you.
I’ve done some bad things before, I don’t give a fuck, but I got smart, now I work for the law, you can’t imagine the shit I get away with by working for the law, fucker,
so when I’m off duty, it will be worth it to see your face bleed.
Write one more piece on him and give me a fucking reason, you low life waste of sperm. Go ahead, I fucking WANT YOU to do it, do it and give me the green light to fuck you up. I’ll make you shit your pants and feed it to you.
I believe in giving everyone one last chance, so don’t say I didn’t warn you, looser, failure in life, failure as a man, failure lonely fuck, pusy.
I always give you snot-nose fucks a warning but you all always push it,
it is up to you, stop now and it ends here, then you will have your “last word” you talk of,
but keep going and watch, when you least expect it, that is when it will go down.
You brought this on your sefl.
Write one piece and you can look forward to having one of my brothers or I drop by your neighborhood in Brooklyn, Joe! Or see you at the next convention. I’m serious, you have been warned!
Ignore my warning and then I will have the last word, bitch!
Wow.... Talk about mental issues. I googled comiccon artists and this site never showed up... Not even if I googled Graig Weich.
So what charity was it? I have family in the NYPD and friends in the FBI and they know nothing about Mr. Weich's huge charity work.
IP Address update:
No, Graig did NOT make those posts, but the interns here in the studio did not like what you said abouthim so we took it upon ourselves to make our points against what you said clear.
We've worked here for over 3 years and will keep defending him against your lies.
Meant what we said about liking the other things you wrote, but you are stuck in you school years, it is just sad. Good for Graig pushing his work out there and we will continue to hype it up, maybe you can learn a thing or two about getting exposure, maybe that is why no one knows of your work and why you keep trying to use Graig's name to get noticed.
You are just Sad.