Comments on: And This Is What A Marvel Contract Looks Like

By: bottleHeD

bottleHeD — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 09:38:49 +0000

I’m shocked! They were actually using Comic Sans in official documents!

By: bottleHeD

bottleHeD — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 05:26:05 +0000

This would probably vary depending on the status of the creator, right? I would assume established named like Grant Morrison or Bryan Hitch would be getting a bigger slice of the pie compared to someone who’s just breaking into the big league.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 02:50:36 +0000

I think one of the reason’s now that art is returned to the artist and inker’s is that they can sell that for cash maybe?
does seem unfair that penciler get’s less then te writer inker I kinda understand.

By: Zee

Zee — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:39:56 +0000

I remember stories of, “Draw an issue of Punisher, buy a car.”

By: Zee

Zee — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:17:08 +0000

Does anyone know what kind of royalties writers and artists used to get? Like what kind of royalty rate would Chris Claremont have gotten back in the 80′s on X-Men?

By: Zee

Zee — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 20:14:24 +0000

On that DC document changing the royalty rates, I find it interested who gets what kind of royalties:

Periodical Format: 2.0% for writer, 1.5% for penciler, 1.0% for inker.
Archive Editions: 2.0% for writer, 1.2% for penciler, 0.8% for inker.
Book Format Collected Edition: 3.2% for writer, 2.4% for penciler, 1.6% for inkers.

Writers pump out like 80 comics a month, but an artist puts a lot more work into crafting a comic, and seems to get screwed.