#comics are an actual piecework industry

[romanyeva]

#ComicsBrokeMe has been gaining steam on Twitter over the past two days, but I haven't seen a whisper of it on my dash here. The Bleeding Cool article summarizes some of the major threads.

Neil Gaiman amplified the hashtag yesterday, as did Frank Miller of all people.

To summarize: the industry is terrible. It's always been terrible, and it's getting worse. Page rates are less than they were ten years ago; deadlines are getting shorter. And it's not just the Big Two (Marvel has always been a meat grinder, but DC is almost as bad), but the majority of the indie publishers too. Digital publishers aren't exempt from this either.

If you can stomach going over to the blue check nonsense site, I would recommend scrolling through the hashtag.