Pennies From Heaven: Attack Of The Tweety Boids
Time for more courtroom humor. I illustrate a monthly humor feature called Strange Suits for Inside Counsel Magazine. They send me four cases, I sketch out an idea for each, they pick the one they like best.
Here’s the latest winner. The case involved a company that’s suing an ex-employee for taking 17,000 of the company’s Twitter followers with him when he left. Definitely a messy situation.
Scroll down to see the rough sketches for the cases that weren’t selected.
This case involved a woman and her son who are suing Walmart. They claim they tried to return a television set and were attacked by store security guards.
French fashion house Louis Vuitton is suing Warner Brothers over the film The Hangover, Part II. Vuitton claims the movie features counterfeit versions of its luggage which could cause “consumer confusion.”
Lady Gaga is being sued by a former personal assistant who claims Gaga owes her for periods when the assistant was “figuratively, if not literally,” always at Lady G’s side.
And here’s the rough sketch for the Tweety Birds case:
What do you think? Will social media be featured in more and more court cases? Have “frivolous” and “lawsuit” become synonymous? Hope you’ll leave a comment.
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