Tag: working for a living

As we all know, paying jobs for artists can be in short supply. One of the more obscure but potentially full-time gigs is courtroom...

Legendary artist Steve Rude has an open submission form on his website for a colorist to color new Nexus and Moth stories.

Over the last year or so, there’s been an increasing amount of talk in creator circles about the low page rates being given out...

We've quoted Blerdgurl (formerly Derpygurl) before on promoting at cons, and she has a new post out called 10 Ways to Promote Your Project...

Short answer: no. Faith Erin Hicks has a far more informative and entertaining longer version, which includes anecdotes and concrete evidence of how she...

While the chance for SPX exhibitors to pitch cartoon ideas to Nickelodeon as announced yesterday sounds like a good opportunity, there was quite a bit of controversy about it on social, as seen in these tweets. Click on the Gillman and Gran links to go to much longer discussions, but the basic objection is that SPX is a small press show that celebrates the joy of small press comics, and formalizing the participation of a major cartoon network/corporate brand at the show goes against that philosophy.

Here's a comic that sums up all the money stuff we've been talking about for the last few weeks. The unnamed cartoonist in Alex...

This is an old link, but Robort Boyd has posted a slideshow he delivered on Comixploitation! that rounds up some of the more egregious...

Not only are these tiny Yotsuba&! figures from Kotobukiya adorable as the dickens, they got me thinking about the place of merchandising in a creator's business plan.

After yesterday's gloom parade over the economics of comics, and the small number of people who seem to be making a good wage from...

  Being in comics is great, it's a golden era, new readers, yadda yadda. But this golden era is mostly the product of people slaving...

With all the comic cons and comic arts festivals going on, creators and exhibitors are becoming increasingly picky about what shows they go to. A lot of it is scheduling, but more and more what makes a good show is whether it's profitable or not. You may recall the the Devastator and The Beat did a survey to get an idea of how and how much money people are making at shows. And of course there have been various arguments over whether cosplay, celebrities or hot dogs on a stick have more effect on poor sales at shows.