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Category: Page Rates

A Guide to Comic Book Publishers

Posted on November 18, 2020November 19, 2020 by Stephanie Cooke

Creator Resource has put together a guide to the comic publishers in the industry, focusing on the bare minimum of what to expect from each. We’ve divided the publishers into a few different categories, including Work-for-Hire (aka WFH), Creator-Owned / Indie, Small Press Publishers, and Webcomics. They are sorted alphabetically and publishers may appear under…

Pages Rates – 2018/2019

Posted on June 8, 2020 by Stephanie Cooke

The page rate survey is an important part of transparency in the comic book industry, and helps for us to fight for better pay, and living wages. We failed to make an announcement last year after running the survey for 2018, but we were unable to use a large majority of the data provided. We…

Understanding Royalty Rates

Posted on January 29, 2020January 29, 2020 by Dirk Vanover

Note: This is not legal advice and is provided for information purposes only. If you are in need of legal advice, please consult with an attorney who can provide specific legal advice to meet your needs. The royalty is the percentage amount a publisher pays to you based on sales of your book. I’m often…

Rates for Commissions: Artist Commissions Survey Results

Posted on September 3, 2019August 30, 2019 by Stephanie Cooke

We put together an anonymous survey for artists who take or have taken commissions to help creators better navigate the rates that they charge and the methods in which they accept commissions. As mentioned, the data was gathered anonymously via Google Forms from a sample size of 290 artists. We are not drawing conclusions or…

Page Rates 2018 – Survey

Posted on May 22, 2019 by Stephanie Cooke

It’s time once again for our annual page rates survey. This survey is for comic book professionals to fill out in order to gain an anonymous idea of what page rates were in the industry for 2018. The results of this survey are kept 100% anonymous and will be used to maintain our web site…

Work For Hire Rates: Year Over Year

Posted on August 2, 2018April 15, 2021 by Eric Kim

Derek Boyko put together visualizations based on the data gathered from our 2017 Page Rates survey and the data collected from the 2015 and 2016 surveys conducted by fairpagerates.com. This visualization compares the data year to year to help us understand any big shifts that we may be seeing. Visualization by Derek Boyko

Work For Hire Rates: Which Job Gets Paid The Most?

Posted on August 2, 2018April 15, 2021 by Eric Kim

Derek Boyko put together visualizations based on the data gathered from our 2017 Page Rates survey and the data collected from the 2015 and 2016 surveys conducted by fairpagerates.com. This visualization compares the data discusses the jobs within comics that pay the most. Lowest reported rates for work for hire jobs and visualizations comparing year to…

Work For Hire Rates: Lowest Reported Pay Per Job

Posted on August 2, 2018April 15, 2021 by Eric Kim

Derek Boyko put together visualizations based on the data gathered from our 2017 Page Rates survey and the data collected from the 2015 and 2016 surveys conducted by fairpagerates.com. This visualization compares the data discusses the jobs within comics that pay the most. Highest reported rates for work for hire jobs and visualizations comparing year to…

Page Rates – 2017

Posted on July 13, 2018April 14, 2021 by Stephanie Cooke

The survey aims to build a resource about standard rates in the comic book industry for comic creators. Additionally, we hope that this data will encourage professionals not to accept work that pays below a living wage. The survey responses are gathered from comics professionals who choose to take the survey. The data is a…

Page Rates – 2016

Posted on June 7, 2018April 14, 2021 by Stephanie Cooke

The web site Fair Page Rates kept a list of all the rates in the comic book industry until the people running the site moved away from it. At Creator Resource, we believe the information that Fair Page Rates provided was invaluable to the community and to helping open up the floor to discussion in terms…

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