![]() ![]() “He tried to, but I was like, ‘I don’t want to have some dude sweet talk me,’” Clowes, who has been drawing comics for 30 years now, explained. ![]() It didn’t exactly show traditional contrition, but more privately, Clowes said, LaBeouf did reach out to him. And when he was caught, the actor launched into a long series of public meta stunts meant to convey his regret, including an art installation in Los Angeles, and releasing other plagiarized statements. ![]() LaBeouf had just straight up stolen his work. “And I was like, What the fuck? I wrote back and was like, ‘I don’t know what you’re talking about.’ He sent me the link and I watched it and was like, ‘Did I write this? Did I have an agreement with him that I don’t remember?’” “That was a day where I had all this stuff to do, and I woke up and early in the morning I had this email from a friend of mine who said, ‘Oh, I didn’t know you did that LaBeouf thing,’” Clowes recalled, laughing. At the time, I received a statement from Clowes’s publisher, so an interview this weekend pegged to his new movie Wilson was my first chance to speak with the author/artist about the incident. Damiano” into a short film and passed it off as his own original idea, a baffling decision that triggered a long sequence of confusion and public intrigue. LaBeouf had turned the comic story “Justin M. Just over three years ago, my friend Matt and I caught Shia LaBeouf plagiarizing the work of Eisner award-winning comics author Daniel Clowes. ![]()
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