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BOMB
Nov '21

So I'm thinking about trying my hand at comics again. Before I do that, I wanted to ask the comic/art community here a series of questions.

In your opinion, would you be interested in a partnership where you're paid roughly $75-$100 per comic page?

Now to give more information, I would be the person writing the story. I would also help with specific artistic elements. And you would have a level of creative freedom under my direction.

The comic would belong to me, and id get to decide where it's posted, but you, of course, would always get credit for the artwork.

I'd then, of course, sell the comic to people.

You would earn 25% of any revenue made from the comic sales on top of the initial $75- $100 you get per complete page.

This isn't a request for artists at the moment; I just want to know if this sort of deal would appeal to you. And if it doesn't, why?

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DokiDokiTsuna
Nov '21

That sounds pretty fair to me. To be honest, it sounds a little too good to be true...^^;

BOMB
Nov '21

Really, how so? I was thinking it might be too restrictive.

RedLenai
Nov '21

$75-$100 is a good price for independent artwork. It is a fair earning especially when the artist takes care of all the visual aspects, such as pencils, inks, background, color, speech bubble, effects and such.

While at the beginning it is a good start, I, on personal experience believe that is way better that the Writer/Author has already a script prepared so the artist can work, a script that details each panel, is easy to understand and it's not a Narrative Text where the artist has to guess what actions are going to be draw, from which angle, guessing or having to ask the writer how to arrange the panels in the page. And don't forget the setting or character references, it doesn't have to be original artwork but something to fabricate the idea, the preparation for the comic.

The better organized the client is, the more efficent the artist works.

I mostly say this because I get people coming to me from time to time to offer me their comic ideas, but they never provide a script, they just talk about pricesand then they just put their novel link and honestly, building, deciding, debating is not my thing, I'm someone who rather follow indications and tasks. And then, when I ask for a script their answer a "oh I'll work on that" or a "But my story is right there, you can work with it" and honestly... I can't, it has unclear instructions that'll make us waste time, or well, they say they'll come up with a script version but they never do.

So again, everything you provided in the means of price, revenue and credits is ok. So once you decide on an artists based on their style, payment, and indications about how they work, the better thing is to provide the script and references because that way the artist can get to work faster so you can have the product faster and it's something organized that you decided, and not something that you and your artist will have to revise and then modify or decide what to fix if one of you isn't satisfied.

BOMB
Nov '21

I completely agree with you, and that is how I was planning to operate to a degree as far as writing a script and drawing up panels. When I say id allow my artists creative freedom I mean they'd have agency to to take my guidelines and know they can try things out to build on my direction. I have experience doing precisely what your talking about.

For example I drew up these

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And wrote a corresponding script to go along with it that detailed each image and text.

RedLenai
Nov '21
BOMB

Then with that said, the day you actually want to look for an artist to create a work together, you'll easily get job applications. It is not so often there is someone this specific and with a good offer

CarltonIsaac
Nov '21

For freelance comic book art, these rates are what I charge per complete page. -

Cover Art: $200-$500 per cover

Pencils: $100-$200 per page

Inks: $75-$150 per page

Coloring: $35-$150 per page

Lowest to Highest based on composition and complexity of the layout.