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It is obvious that you care about the series. Contact the publisher and let them make the first move. If they want to be jerks about it then be jerks back but at least give them the chance to make it right.

As a side note, you countered their rip off by taking a whole page out of their book and putting it on your website. Just saying.

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I'm pretty sure excerpts are considered fair use.

True, but it's also possible that the comic's reference, as a small part of the total work, to a fan image on the internet is also fair use. I guess it might turn on the extent to which the original image was passed around (which I don't know at all)--- you have a stronger fair-use argument referencing things that are part of popular culture, as opposed to, say, randomly taking something out of a high-school yearbook.

They used the whole work, a photo.

He's not only using an excerpt of substantially reduced quality but also reporting and/or critiquing the work. Lastly the work he's critiquing is in part a derivative of his own work and so the presentation of at least that derivative [half-page] image could not be a copyright infringement IMO unless he'd licensed away the right to duplicate it (this would not be true if it was transformative).

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