Internet and Media

So what I'm doing now is a continuation of the Digital Art course, Internet and media. The first class was pretty good. Andy showed us a couple of websites that we could use to generate ideas for our own websites and he also showed us his own. It was really interesting to see what kind of medium Andy used and what skills he had picked up throughout his career. 

The first project that we have to do is to design a website about something or someone of interest to us, externally. Well, something that is of most interest to me is drawing; mainly cartoons/comics, manga and the like. Though I've noticed that many people that also like these things take one too many steps too far when creating something, especially with characters that already exist. It seems to be abusing artistic license. I wonder though, do the creators of those characters realise what their fans are doing to them?