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The money thing part 1: there is none in writing about comics

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8P80A8vy9I Time to get meta again! The article The Awl by Noah Davis about rising pay rates for online writing gave hope to millions: Many newer...

Job watch: courtroom sketch artist takes another crack at Tom Brady today

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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...

Help wanted: Steve Rude seeks colorist

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

The economic reality of indie comics page rates

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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...

Self promotion the non-annoying way

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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...

Making comics: Do you need to go to cons and live in NYC or...

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

SPX/Nickelodeon team up gets mixed response

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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.

Webcomic alert: Witness the economic struggle of the cartoonist in ICE CREAM by Alex...

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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...

Know your exploiters in comics: a brief guide

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

OMG these Yotsuba&! figures are so cuuuuuuuute!

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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.

Hold on, some people are actually making money at comics!

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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 a cartoonist by the numbers…and the numbers are ugly

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  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...

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