Are British comic workers treated better than American ones?
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Are British comic workers treated better than American ones?
Writers, artists, letterers, etc. Seems like the Yanks get treated worse than Tharg's artbots. They're there to make Marvel/DC money, and if they don't like how they're treated they can either submit or quit. Or am I unfairly stereotyping US working conditions?
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Lucy McGough wrote:Or am I unfairly stereotyping US working conditions?
I can only say from what I've read, although I've been reading about it for decades, but it certainly seems like it. It's seemed very much to be a tenant farmhand analogy, rather than an actually creative one since the beginning though.
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The British comics industry used to have a pretty poor reputation asfar as creators rights went, but people like Pat Mills, John Wagner and Dez Skinn helped changed all that in the 70s and 80s. And then, of course, the US industry started opening up to British talent, so popular creators were in a stronger position here at home, to an extent.
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Well, at least the British are doing something righttony ingram wrote:The British comics industry used to have a pretty poor reputation asfar as creators rights went, but people like Pat Mills, John Wagner and Dez Skinn helped changed all that in the 70s and 80s.
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It took awhile. Until 2000AD arrived, pretty much no British creator was allowed to even be credited for their work. In that respect, at that time, we were about twenty years behind the US comics industry. But the arrival of Warrior in 1982 really seems to have shaken up people's thinking.
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That is so weird. If it were still like that today, nobody would know who Alan Moore istony ingram wrote:It took awhile. Until 2000AD arrived, pretty much no British creator was allowed to even be credited for their work.
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In the very early days of his career, we didn't anyway; he used a number of pen names including, notably, 'Curt Vile'.Lucy McGough wrote:That is so weird. If it were still like that today, nobody would know who Alan Moore istony ingram wrote:It took awhile. Until 2000AD arrived, pretty much no British creator was allowed to even be credited for their work.
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Curt???? I've gone right off him now.
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So, the part of the name "Curt Vile" that you have an issue with is "Curt". Interesting.
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Yeah, 'cos... I mean, come on! Curt???? It's almost as bad as being called Hiram J. Thickburger III.
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You've upset Hiram, now. No wonder he never posts here when you're around.
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...Still, it must be hard working in comics. I mean, do they even get pensions?
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Not unless they have a private pension plan, no. Most creators have always been freelancers.
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