Sam

Comic artist | Lumberjackula @simonkids | Rep‘d by @agentvicente | Email: [email protected] | https://linktr.ee/dsamowen

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Hieronymous Garf

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Spider Ninja if he was in Usagi Yojimbo or something

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Awakened Luffy beats Kaido

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The perfect killing machine

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Never Improve #3

Somebody decided their posts aren’t your business, and that’s a very normal boundary, it turns out!

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Hieronymous Garf

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An enemy stand has appeared! 「 M A N I C M O N D A Y S 」

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Chainsaw Man vs the Movie Devil

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fern gets ready

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Good grief!

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the innkeeper's daughter

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It’s awesome how transparent you are about payment in the comics industry. I’m an editor with experience at DC and Marvel (plus other publishers), and you’re right that page rates vary wildly from person to person (which unfortunately makes it hard to give an estimate of what a “normal” rate is). Different projects also have different budgets.

At my current company, I’d say the average rate for writing is $120/page, while art (pencils and inks) is $350/page. Our colorists are usually paid $120/page and letterers are almost always paid $20/page. If an interior artist also does a cover, we pay the artist’s interior page rate x 1.5 for it.

Most of our talent is very established in the industry, though, so I would not consider these rates to be attainable for up-and-coming creators. For people breaking into the industry, I’d say that writing at $75/pg, art at $120/pg and colors at $70/pg is at the upper end of what a new name might be offered.

The pay in comics has not increased over the past few decades, despite increases to the cost of living. Comics creators should be paid more, especially considering how IP is now being created initially as a comic and then turned into a show or movie. So many people haven’t received fair payment for adaptations of their comics, and it’s hurting the whole industry.

AH thank you! This is really affirming to hear, and I appreciate you contributing a little more information. I suspected the rates would be different for very established bigger names within the capes-and-tights comics wheelhouse. I know some creators have gone to a lot of effort to compile more of this information, but it's always so contentious that I'd rather just be open about my own experiences instead of guessing what others might be going through.

I was also chatting with a friend of mine about the challenges of legally confirming equity and rights for creating new IP for the larger comics publishers, and it sounds like an incredibly arduous uphill battle! It's part of the reason why I like working in OGNs best. I don't want to make a great commitment to working under a structure where I won't get due credit and compensation for the work I've provided.

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An enemy stand has appeared! 「 M A N I C M O N D A Y S 」

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Chainsaw Man vs the Movie Devil