The Painter of Blight

Thomas Kinkade is a well known American "painter" -- I consider him to be a decent illustrator, a lousy artist and an excellent businessman. The article is a few months old but it is worth reading just for the comments -- especially those from Steve Austin (later just Steve) From Felix Salmon writing at Reuters:

Thomas Kinkade: Bad, not evil
Hamilton Nolan is snarking gleefully over the fact that Thomas Kinkade, whom he calls �Painter of Darkness�, has lost a round of the endless litigation he�s been involved in for years now, ever since he took his company private in 2004. Now I�m no fan of Kinkade. But the plaintiffs in this case are trying to make a pretty astonishing case: that they�re owed damages on the grounds that Kinkade talked a lot about God, and thereby fraudulently persuaded them to place their trust in him.

This argument doesn�t really hold water, and in fact Kinkade has � justly � won the vast majority of the lawsuits which have been brought against him. I wrote about this case at some length back in March 2006, so I might as well just plagiarize myself here: Kinkade is more of a bad businessman than an evil one.

And again, go to the site and read the comments -- they are wonderful...