Reblogged from K H O U R I:
‘Village Voice’ Doesn’t Pay Cartoonists, Asks Cartoonists Why They’re Broke
In anticipation of this weekend’s MoCCA Festival, The Village Voice published its Cartoon Issue, featuring an exhaustive and fascinating article on the grim financial realities of cartoonists. Among the many depressing facts reported were that Fantagraphics makes only $6 million in sales a year; the Diamond Comic Distributor’s total sales figures for 2009 were only $428 million; and that The Village Voice itself doesn’t pay many cartoonists whose work it publishes.
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