Tag: working for a living
NYCC ’13 Panel Recap: From Creator to Consumer
I have a number of panel recaps to write up for you all, so you should expect them to occupy the next few days on the site - and we start with a panel...
Breaking news: Cartoonist gets paying job!!!!
The unthinkable has happened. A cartoonist has been hired for a job that pays a living wage. Instead of heating up old shoe leather to serve with his peanut butter, he'll be able to...
That time that comics didn’t die
For some reason, this post I wrote in February 2012 popped up on my feed; it was called Comics Crisis: Doujinshi Nation and at the time, people seemed to think that Gary Friedrich's loss...
Keith Knight offers new subscription service
Even as Matt Bors has been making the rounds telling us how editorial cartooning is dead (which is it) enterprising cartoonists such as Ruben Bolling and Stephanie McMillan have been fihting back by offering...
Jim Lee asks the hard question: top artists of the last five years?
Tonight's dinner topic: Who are your 3 favorite new artists who have emerged in the past 5 years?
— Jim Lee (@JimLee) June 20, 2013
//platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsIn a tweet the other night, DC co-publisher Jim Lee asked...
Note to artists: “Don’t give it away!”
While the benefits of giving all your art away for free on Tumblr and deviantART are well known, you still shouldn't give it away for free to an entity that is otherwise profiting, says...
Today’s money breakdown from the Penny Arcade Report: paying for journalism with panty shots
The Penny Arcade Report is a video game news and commentary site run by....well, we'll let you figure it out. Yesterday editor Ben Kuchera ran down the economics of running a website in dollars and cents. Although he's talking about video games, it all applies equally to comics journalism:
Neil Gaiman and The Beat think exactly alike: “Nobody knows.”
Coinciding brilliantly with our post yesterday on the nagging uncertainty of making a career in future media, world-renowned best selling author Neil Gaiman said pretty much exactly the same thing in a keynote address at the London Book Fair which urged everyone to just try new shit (we're paraphrasing) to find what works:
Comics…it was the worst of times
In the Brian Hibbs column I quoted in my previous post, he also wrote this:
We also live in an industry where a significant number of comics being published today are probably not making a...
Quote of the day: Robert Kirkman on career planning
“As more people are able to make a living doing it, I think we’re moving into an atmosphere were creators are able to define their careers more than creators in the past have been...
Kibbles ‘n’ Bits, 3/20/13: Spring Cleaning
Making a living at Random House, saving a statue, listening to Al Jaffee
Must read: Chuck Austen’s advice to Tokyopop creators: ‘Move on’
With Toykopop hovering somewhere between somethingness and nothingness, one thing is certain: owner Stu Levy will never give the creators back their books as long as he might be able to leverage them in...
