Comments on: “It Takes The Fun Out of Conjuring Unsolicited Ideas” http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/03/21/it-takes-the-fun-out-of-conjuring-unsolicited-ideas/ The Blog@ Team and prominent comics personalities share what’s on their minds. Tue, 21 May 2013 07:56:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Simon Fraser http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/03/21/it-takes-the-fun-out-of-conjuring-unsolicited-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-728825 Simon Fraser Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:07:01 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=31453#comment-728825 What is appealing to creators is a fat paycheck, much like it is to other people. The simple fact of the Comics business is that, like the Poetry business or the Theater business, there is more supply than demand. Much more talent than the market can support. The vast majority of the people who do it , no matter what the skill level, must content themselves with the knowledge that it will always be a hobby and not something that they can actually pay bills with. Make no mistake the Indy market will thrive, in quality and scale at least. Then Marvel and DC ( and the other companies who aspire to emulate them ) will fish in that talent pool for the ones who fit their profiles and then work them until they don't enjoy it anymore. Everybody wins! I know I'm making it sound bad here, but it really isn't. It's just business and Dean et al would be singing a different tune if the work they did actually made money. Nobody get paid from artistic success alone. What is appealing to creators is a fat paycheck, much like it is to other people. The simple fact of the Comics business is that, like the Poetry business or the Theater business, there is more supply than demand. Much more talent than the market can support. The vast majority of the people who do it , no matter what the skill level, must content themselves with the knowledge that it will always be a hobby and not something that they can actually pay bills with.

Make no mistake the Indy market will thrive, in quality and scale at least. Then Marvel and DC ( and the other companies who aspire to emulate them ) will fish in that talent pool for the ones who fit their profiles and then work them until they don’t enjoy it anymore. Everybody wins!

I know I’m making it sound bad here, but it really isn’t. It’s just business and Dean et al would be singing a different tune if the work they did actually made money. Nobody get paid from artistic success alone.

]]> By: Kyle Garret http://blog.newsarama.com/2012/03/21/it-takes-the-fun-out-of-conjuring-unsolicited-ideas/comment-page-1/#comment-728740 Kyle Garret Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:48:33 +0000 http://blog.newsarama.com/?p=31453#comment-728740 I kind of wonder if creators are feeling like there's really not much else to do with corporately owned characters who have been around for 60-80 years. I mean, I know there's always new stories to be told, but the big stories are pretty cyclical. Creator owned work has limitless possibilities. It's not hard to see how that would be appealing to creators. I kind of wonder if creators are feeling like there’s really not much else to do with corporately owned characters who have been around for 60-80 years. I mean, I know there’s always new stories to be told, but the big stories are pretty cyclical.

Creator owned work has limitless possibilities. It’s not hard to see how that would be appealing to creators.

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