Eisner Award-winning artist Dustin Nguyen has launched an expletive-filled tirade at Marvel for its poor contract rates and poor treatment of its creators. He also slammed the company’s reticence to pay royalties to creators for overseas sales of their work.Nguyen aired his grievances on Instagram. “Also, everyone I’m not working with can go f–k themselves. I’ve asked nicely for the past 15 years on behalf of every artist. Stop f–king creators over. You are not getting another cover from me until then. Drown me. I’m ok with your minimum wage bullshit,” he wrote. Apparently, Nguyen got heat for his strongly worded observation, leading him to double down on his post. “Ok. Getting hits earlier than expected from this one, and I’m kinda glad because I got words. But really, if this bothers you, I’m sorry. Marvel has been undercutting creators from the start unless you’re getting 6-7k a cover- then god bless. I hope you’re getting a piece of the MCU and after-sales.”Regarding the contract rate situation for comic book creators, the Descender artist wrote, “I’ve asked Marvel for like, I SWEAR, $75 PAGE RAISE in the past 15 years (the minimum wage in CA is doing better than them, probably in a decade, even that a**hole Trump will do better than Marvel given a month), I don’t even need that shitty chump change, but I want to see how cheap they are. All this equalling maybe a royalty that’s the, ‘Please sir, can I maybe have .15 cents after you’ve made your thousands.'”
Eisner Award-winning artist Dustin Nguyen has launched an expletive-filled tirade at Marvel for its poor contract rates and poor treatment of its creators. He also slammed the company’s reticence to pay royalties to creators for overseas sales of their work.
Nguyen aired his grievances on Instagram. “Also, everyone I’m not working with can go f–k themselves. I’ve asked nicely for the past 15 years on behalf of every artist. Stop f–king creators over. You are not getting another cover from me until then. Drown me. I’m ok with your minimum wage bullshit,” he wrote. Apparently, Nguyen got heat for his strongly worded observation, leading him to double down on his post. “Ok. Getting hits earlier than expected from this one, and I’m kinda glad because I got words. But really, if this bothers you, I’m sorry. Marvel has been undercutting creators from the start unless you’re getting 6-7k a cover- then god bless. I hope you’re getting a piece of the MCU and after-sales.”
Regarding the contract rate situation for comic book creators, the Descender artist wrote, “I’ve asked Marvel for like, I SWEAR, $75 PAGE RAISE in the past 15 years (the minimum wage in CA is doing better than them, probably in a decade, even that a**hole Trump will do better than Marvel given a month), I don’t even need that shitty chump change, but I want to see how cheap they are. All this equalling maybe a royalty that’s the, ‘Please sir, can I maybe have .15 cents after you’ve made your thousands.'”
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