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FAIR PAGE RATES Year in Review, 2016 Survey Results (Original Version) 2017-02-03 04:57:29 Post No.
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FAIR PAGE RATES Year in Review, 2016 Survey Results (Original Version)
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>The goal of this survey is to build a resource that allows creators to have more information about standard rates in the comics industry. We also hope this data will encourage more professionals not to accept work that pays below certain standards.
>For practical reasons, survey responses are gathered from any comics professionals who choose to take the survey. This means the data is based on a non-representative sample — there is potential for a self-selection bias, meaning that the people who choose to participate might be more likely to have certain perspectives or traits, and therefore not be representative of the “population.” That said, self-selection sampling is a widely used and accepted research method of non-probability sampling.
>The data below was gathered anonymously from a sample size of 100 comics professionals. The data represents a resource in the process of being built — given the small and non-representative sample, we are not drawing conclusions or interpreting the data at this point. We will continue collecting surveys about 2016 rates until May 2017, and these results will be updated quarterly. It is worth repeating that the more people who participate, the more useful this data will be for all creators in the industry.
Next update: May 2017.
>The Survey is open until July 2017, please take a moment to fill out the survey and share with your peers. Updated quarterly.
>Lowest Reported Page Rates by Publisher, 2016 *
1. Oni Press, Total Art + Script – $33
2. BOOM! Studios, Total Art + Script – $65
>*Sample size of 100 respondents
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Here are the usual suspects:
>Berganza and Allie
>other harassers and problematic editorial in the Big Two
>BOOM!'s notoriously low pay
>Bluewater who has gone through a few name changes
>resurrected Tokyopop doing shit
>Zenescope's late payments
>Archaia
Owned by BOOM!.
>Black Mask
The company had legal problems and co-founder Matt Pizzolo had real-life problems at that time.
>Blue Apple Books
Literally who
>Image
Respondent no. 1 must be a liberal.
>Platinum Studios
Not to be confused with the video game developer. Its founder is Scott Mitchell Rosenberg of Malibu Comics fame.
>Rosy Press
It's founder went through real-life problems until she sold Fresh Romance and the company to Emet Comics, a new publisher with the same agenda as Rosy Press, for its second volume (the first, collecting the digital-first issues published by Rosy Press, was published in print form by Oni Press).
And finally...
>implying Z2 editors are experienced
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>>89615179
Forgot image, sorry.
Spoilered because of sensitive topics being tackled.
Final Thoughts
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This is always interesting, but I find the sample size too small to really draw many conclusions especially concerning pay.
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>>89615153
>100
That's barely a lot and it's pretty likely most of this were just work for hire and weren't even regulars in the first place
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>>89615162
>>89615153
Surprised there's little mention of Archie, as I've heard that the company itself has/had a toxic work environment
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>>89615162
>No More Anthologies
As a dude with an anthology currently in perpetual production limbo, I 100% agree.
I wonder if the respondent was referring to Flight?
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These midlist comic publishers really ought to switch to a system more like "real" publishers, with a bare minimum advance advance and 4~7% cover price royalties on every copy sold. They seem so unattractive in these direct comparisons with the bigger companies.
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>>89615153
What's a Flatter? This is the first time I've seen the term.
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>>89616512
No offense, but outside of passion projects, anthologies are for people who can't land their own book. New entries into the business who need the exposure.
That said, it sucks your project is in limbo, which defeats the exposure angle completely. Anthologies also work best if there is a mixture of name and new artists. A book with all newbies and an expectation that artists sell their own books sounds like vanity press at best, and a publisher shouldn't even be involved in that.
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>>89616789
assembly line comic coloring.
the Flatter is the guy that lays down the flat colors on the page... leaving the rendering and lighting effects to someone else. Might also be called "Color Separation".
Very rarely credited. Kind of relegated to artist assistant/intern work in more "frugal" publishing houses. Usually a position within a production group like Udon and the like where a bunch of artist work on multiple comics simultaneously as quickly as possible.
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>>89618378
Flatters are also used in case a credited colorist is very busy.
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