My apologies to my non-US readers. "Ho Hos" are a snack treat here in the US consisting of whipped cream wrapped in a roll of chocolate ... then covered in chocolate.

Yeah. I actually do tend to have a celebratory Ho Ho after a strip is done, minus the ash tray though.

In other news, it seems that a publishing house in China has ripped off a slew of artists across the internet and published an art book AND included an image CD of all the artists work.

The full story can be found here, but the basic points are:

An art book is published and sells for $100.
All the illustrations are taken from the web.
All the interviews were taken from The Little Chimp society website (typos and all), and attributed to the art director of the book.
A CD is available in the back of the book with all the illustrations, basically treating them like free clip art. Even the original file names haven't been changed.

If you care to, someone has posted all the pages online so artists can peruse them and see if they are a victim in this mess.

Page Scans

So it appears the secret to success is:

Step 1: Be China
Step 2: Let others create
Step 3: PROFIT!