Artist Tells Marvel VP Not to Bother Him after He Shows Interest in His art

[Ares]

[GAMBIT]

 

 

[Anfield Fox]

[Kenners]

[Bosco685]

 

[ChrisInBaltimore]

I guess he didn't know who he was?

[Kevin76]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

[Batman1fan]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

I've always wondered, what is the page rate for a penciler at DC or Marvel? I know a lot depends on the artist, but I'm talking about an average Joe that has been at it for at least a couple of years, but not necessarily someone that people at a convention would stand in line to meet?

[bug33fouf]

[ThothAmon]

Marvel Comics?

[jaybuck43]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

I've always wondered, what is the page rate for a penciler at DC or Marvel? I know a lot depends on the artist, but I'm talking about an average Joe that has been at it for at least a couple of years, but not necessarily someone that people at a convention would stand in line to meet?

 

About $100 a page, but it varies.

[Ken Aldred]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

I've always wondered, what is the page rate for a penciler at DC or Marvel? I know a lot depends on the artist, but I'm talking about an average Joe that has been at it for at least a couple of years, but not necessarily someone that people at a convention would stand in line to meet?

 

About $100 a page, but it varies.

 

Surprising. You would've thought it would be higher. Then again, comicbook sales figures are generally poor compared to a couple of decades ago.

[Batman1fan]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

I've always wondered, what is the page rate for a penciler at DC or Marvel? I know a lot depends on the artist, but I'm talking about an average Joe that has been at it for at least a couple of years, but not necessarily someone that people at a convention would stand in line to meet?

 

About $100 a page, but it varies.

Thanks for the info! When I was growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, my first career aspiration was to be a comic book artist. For that kind of pay, I'm glad I remained a collector and never pursued it as a profession. Not that money is everything, but when the person who hands me my sausage biscuit at McDonalds on my way to work in the morning is making as much per hour or more than I would be slaving over my drawing board, that would probably have been a very short career.

[jaybuck43]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

I've always wondered, what is the page rate for a penciler at DC or Marvel? I know a lot depends on the artist, but I'm talking about an average Joe that has been at it for at least a couple of years, but not necessarily someone that people at a convention would stand in line to meet?

 

About $100 a page, but it varies.

 

Surprising. You would've thought it would be higher. Then again, comicbook sales figures are generally poor compared to a couple of decades ago.

 

Also take into account how the art has changed. Many artists work digitally now. They also aren't doing lettering any more. So the real question is, how long does it take today to produce a page. If you're able to do 2 pages a day, you're making $4,000 a month, a pretty good salary for a novice artist doing what they love with the chance for advancement.

[ChiSoxFan]

Unless the guys in the comic shop already have jobs using their artistic talents, they're essentially drawing for their own satisfaction and nothing else. Even the Joker knows:

 

 

Potentially a wasted opportunity to crack into the business for someone who, if he's drawing art with superhero themes, must have some desire to do it professionally, I would imagine.

[Artboy99]

He actually make the right choice by telling him not bother him. Artists make a terrible salary for the time they have to spend on it. 18 hour days hunched over a board to try and make a deadline, then sell off your art cause your car died. Glad I never stuck with it.

I've always wondered, what is the page rate for a penciler at DC or Marvel? I know a lot depends on the artist, but I'm talking about an average Joe that has been at it for at least a couple of years, but not necessarily someone that people at a convention would stand in line to meet?

 

About $100 a page, but it varies.

 

Surprising. You would've thought it would be higher. Then again, comicbook sales figures are generally poor compared to a couple of decades ago.

 

Also take into account how the art has changed. Many artists work digitally now. They also aren't doing lettering any more. So the real question is, how long does it take today to produce a page. If you're able to do 2 pages a day, you're making $4,000 a month, a pretty good salary for a novice artist doing what they love with the chance for advancement.

 

The information is not necessarily correct.

 

Many artists are not given a rate per page. Many are offered an "incentive" pay rate which offers a percentage of the sale of the book and depends on the number of books sold.

I know a local artist that draws a title published under Image that received almost NOTHING for his work as so few books sold.

He pencils and inks the pages and produces one page a day.

 

Being able to complete 2 pages of the pencil art in one day is also rather unlikely unless you want to work 16 hour days.

 

While you can work digitally if you do you have nothing to sell and many artists rely on the sales of the actual pages to supplement their income.

 

[Phantalien]

 

My first impression is someone has a big ego. Is everyone supposed to know that guy from Marvel and who he is? I don't know him and never heard of him. There are two sides to every story so I probably shouldn't have jumped to that assumption but the way the tweet was written makes it seem like everyone should know this guy and how "powerful" he is to an artist's career.

 

When the marvel guy asked to see the portfolio were they all talking? did he interrupt? did he introduce himself? were the people genuinely helping each other out and they thought that he was just some random guy to look at the cool drawings?

 

I feel like we are missing something

[Comicopolis]

 

Somebody full of his own self importance.

[Artboy99]

 

My first impression is someone has a big ego. Is everyone supposed to know that guy from Marvel and who he is? I don't know him and never heard of him. There are two sides to every story so I probably shouldn't have jumped to that assumption but the way the tweet was written makes it seem like everyone should know this guy and how "powerful" he is to an artist's career.

 

When the marvel guy asked to see the portfolio were they all talking? did he interrupt? did he introduce himself? were the people genuinely helping each other out and they thought that he was just some random guy to look at the cool drawings?

 

I feel like we are missing something

 

I am thinking it is a little of the reasons you posted. he probably didn't introduce himself.

[Bird]

 

Somebody full of his own self importance.

 

More like aware of his own self importance. CB is a talent scout, he gets people work. One of the guys he encountered may have had a job in the near future if he had been a little more polite and since he was soliciting opinions from the other guys there he likely would have gotten professional feedback from the Marvel guy as well.