I have been unable to answers all of the emails sent to me and I apo­lo­gize for this, but 600 and count­ing emails is a lot.

Index Book and Azur Cor­por­a­tion have informed me that Index Book are sorry that they made a mis­take by giving me Azur’s con­tact inform­a­tion as their sup­plier, but Index Book are yet to update their site with the cor­rect inform­a­tion. I’m still work­ing my way up the chain to find the com­pany or people behind Great Cre­ativ­ity organ­iz­a­tion (Which as far as I know is a fake pub­lisher) and Index book are still hap­pily selling ‘Colorful Illus­tra­tions 93°C’. Hope­fully the AOI or GAG will do their bit and put a stop to the sale of the book, but they are cur­rently wait­ing for their mem­bers to make con­tact and supply them with more inform­a­tion before they can pro­ceed in anyway.

I will not per­son­ally be con­sid­er­ing legal action until the pub­lisher is found and we have someone to sue, I’m leav­ing it in the hands of the cum­munity and the organ­iz­a­tions that rep­res­ent the illus­tra­tion com­munity, like the AOI or GAG to try and put a stop to the sale of this book.

Here is the con­tact inform­a­tion for Index Book’s supplier.

Sophia
Guang­zhou Send­points Books Co.,Ltd.
Add: #80 Xin Ya Rd.,Haizhu Dis­trict, Guang­zhou, China
Tel: 86 20 89095121
Fax: 86 20 89095206
E-mail: spbooks@163.com
MSN:gzsendpoint@hotmail.com
Web­site: http://www.​send​point.​com.cn
(Please do not link to them)

I have not con­tac­ted them yet, as I wanted to get the inform­a­tion out that Azur was only con­nec­ted due to Index Book’s mis­take. If anyone con­tacts Sophia at Send­point before me and please feel free to, please relay her response to me by email­ing darren at lcsv4 dot com. I’m guess­ing I’ll hit a lan­guage bar­rier if I try to phone them, but what I’m after is who and where they got the book from. There are to many resellers selling this for it to have come from small market stall. Send­point have a pre-​print copy of one of the pages on their site so I’m hoping they will be of more help, because the image hasn’t been taken from the book and must have been sup­plied to them.

Colorful Illustrations 93°C

Work by Adhemas Batista

Also as a result of this situ­ation I’m work­ing out the details of a low­brow LCS magazine with a few friends at the moment, let me know by email­ing me if you’re inter­ested in a pre-​ordering a copy.

Updates… [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]


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