Freakscomics recruiting (unpaid)

[Tailzkip]

I was a part of something like this when I was younger....I left after like 3 weeks. I was just being used for labor and ordered around like a dog to keep things to their standards. Although those people actually paid me, it wasn't worth the low money they offered. But it was something at least...

[ReaperKing]

Well here is the thing. Just because it happened to you doesnt mean it happened to everyone. I also worked with 2 or 3 teams before and they were all kind and respectable towards me. So your comment here is just generalizing that all these teams are bad which in fact they are not

[FreaksComics]

We give our team proper credits and help them achieve their goals without having to pay as most people who want to start out in this industry don't exactly have heavy pockets. Kindly stop making it seem as if you haven't actually read this post if you're going to reply. We've already found 10+ members who want to work with us unpaid, which just shows our capabilities and the confidence they have in this team's success.

As for our plot, we can't give out too much of information as plagiarizing is a thing in reality unfortunately. I wouldn't also judge a book by its cover as we really don't know anything until we open up and start reading.

So I will try to put it as simple as possible: Leave if you aren't interested as we never forced you to Collab with us. It is out of your own free will to join or not. Not everyone is as rich and wealthy as you think. Some just want their story heard and to have a great time doing what they love without getting paid. If everyone was thinking like how you did then how did we manage to get till where we are? Answer this yourself.

We won't engage with your kind anymore as we are tired of stating the obvious.

Thank You
FreaksComics

[Mojiroo]

We aren't like that, trust me. We always smother each other with love xD And we actually care about each others opinions. The only thing we argue about is whether cake is better with or without frosting haha ^^

[Rai89]

Buddy, just pay the artists, I don't understand why that is so hard for you, even if it's just 2$ to 5$ dollars a panel.

[DiegoPalacios]

If you want to publish said comic, you can't pay your team with "fun"

sometimes working in a big project with friends can be fun, but, if you expect serious commitment, you can't expect hobbyists to commit so much time and resources on your project.

Crediting people working for you is just a basic common decency thing and doesn't count as payment either, neither is the vague promise of "exposure".

When i recluit an artist we reach an agreement and i pay them for their services.....if one dude like me can save some cash to hire one artist, a group like yours should be able to afford to pay artists for their effort....

[Panqiuyan]

I wonder if $150 per month is a good price for 35 panel comic? what do you think because i'm trying to figure if that is too low an artist pay

[Mallory]

150/35 = $4.3 per panel. Each panel will take anywhere between 30 minutes to several hours. Assuming a faster artist, and averaging 1 hr/panel, you're paying for 35 hours of work. Art is skilled work, so it should be compensated at much higher rate that minimum wage. So... like... maybe for an artist who lives in a country where the minimum wage is $1/hr and where $500 covers your expenses for the month comfortably, this might be fine.

In the Western market, the going rate for a professional artist per page is anywhere between $100-500, so roughly per 6-7 panels.

[SleepingPoppy]

This might not be the place to ask this, since it's someone else's thread! But it kind of depends on how many panels are supposed to be finished per month (not sure if that was the 35, or the total story was 35), and if the comic is in color, B&W, or line art. Etc. You can make your own thread asking for input, or jump into the search bar and you'll definitely see other people asking this questions and getting answers. Ideally you pay enough that you meet minimum wage or better for the artist, tho.

[ahogemon]

If you meant that all 35 panels were done (from paneling, sketches, line-arts, backgrounds, coloring, and shading) by a single artist aside from the script, then I guess that is too low for average artists (not a beginner or a pro artist), but I think that also depends on the cost of living in which country the artist live, for artists who live in a high cost of living city is too freaking low, but for artists who live in a low cost of living city that might be acceptable for some.
But, for beginner artists who just getting started with cheap tools and free software (don't expect high quality), then it is acceptable and not too low.

[system]

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