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Simple comic book cover12/24/2023 For example, you might offer your artist 25% of the net profits from any poster or t-shirt sales that use their artwork. A royalty is defined in comics as a payment based on the revenue generated from a distribution source. Revenue sharing: As an additional financial incentive, some work for hire deals include a royalty in addition to, or in place of, a page rate. on the cover, in the advertising materials and on social media) As long as you know what the price is, everything else is based on that.Ĭredit: This is similar to collaborators, where work for hire creators can get their name on the book, as is customary in the industry (i.e. It’s a straight forward transaction one page for one price. It doesn’t take into account incentives like royalty pools, recoupment, back end participation or anything else that could muddy the waters. So if you get $100 per page and the book is 32 pages, then you get $3,200. The basic idea is for every page you’re hired to work on, you get a set fee. Freelance comic book artists normally get paid a page rate. Sales people get paid based on commissions. Page rate: Different professions get paid according to different measurements. ![]() What Forms of Consideration Are Used in Work for Hire Agreements?īecause creators who sign a work for hire agreement do not own a portion of the underlying property, the four major types of consideration they can get are different from collaborators (See a Simple Guide to Getting Paid in Collaboration Contracts), based on the deal negotiated between the parties: While this can’t be used as legal advice, I hope you’ll find it helpful. It’s designed to walk you through the basics how to pay the business and creative people who help create your comic. This is a modified excerpt from a book I’m working on called Independent Comic Book Publishing.
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