Comments on: Closing The Book Of Platinum, Moving On

By: Sht Dmn M*therb**tet | computerization

Sh*t D*mn M*therb**tet | computerization — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:26:37 +0000

[...] Ok this shit right here about how Platinum Studios have messed up paying an artist is NOT giving me good thoughts about the [...]

By: The Gigcast - Your Webcomics Podcast » Blog Archive » Webcomic Wire - 7/2/08

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 17:16:00 +0000

[...] to you all! And just for the record PS paid DJ Coffman the money they owed him according to his blog. Xerexes has a good post which nicely puts PS’s negotiations with Wowio in [...]

By: Chaddernaut

Chaddernaut — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:49:50 +0000

That is great you got what was coming to you from the product ( boy that sounds horrible that way.), but you know what i mean, right?
Anyways, these stories from her and Dreamwave in the past, scares the bejeebus outta of me, on thinking of small press, webcomics sound more my speed, at least you can put this all behind you, and get cracking on other projects, or HBN (which rocks btw..)
Anyhoo, glad to hear that things are getting back to normal.

By: Al Nickerson

Al Nickerson — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:44:18 +0000

Coldpay Said: “One of the creators’ rights I’ve been thining about lately is ‘right of information,’ which encompasses stuff like right to know about the accounting on your titles, right to know the status of payment, right to know number of copies sold, etc.”

Man, I like that!

It looks like part of that falls under article 9 (“The right to full and accurate accounting of any and all income and disbursements relative to our work”) of the Creator’s Bill of Rights.

We should have Scott McCloud amend the Bill.

http://www.scottmccloud.com/inventions/bill/rights.html

By: Coldpay

Coldpay — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:10:44 +0000

Glad you got paid. Very glad. That’s a nasty situation to be in.

One of the creators’ rights I’ve been thining about lately is “right of information,” which encompasses stuff like right to know about the accounting on your titles, right to know the status of payment, right to know number of copies sold, etc.

I have to hope that, despite the large number of stories of creators being screwed, public conversation (perhaps even debate) resulting from stories like yours will help individual creators be more aware of what they should look for in contracts and hope for from publishing partners, and help the industry know what creators desire and need out of the relationship. Sorry, I know that sounds banal…

By: Crackerbob

Crackerbob — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 21:51:27 +0000

Forgive me, for I am slow – does the end of your “consultant agreement” mean that Hero by Night is now over as a comic series?

By: Troy Bowen

Troy Bowen — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:56:50 +0000

Print comics are certainly on the decline and DJ’s web comic projects are the way of the future. It is a sad state but many print publishers and creators seem to have their heads in the sand and refuse to acknowledge what is happening. I think DJ is right that he is lucky they kept it going as long as they did and they are nuts not to let him continue it in an online format for their benefit if they are shopping it to Hollywood.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:51:38 +0000

@BMOC
Web comics is the way to go. Period.

By: gsekse

gsekse — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:46:09 +0000

I agree, if you say the sketch takes 5 minutes (which I suspect is a TOTAL LIE) you should at least get $1 a minute/$60 an hour. You can take less per hour when you get a multi-hour project.

By: Ernie Stiner

Ernie Stiner — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:40:46 +0000

I’m very happy for you that the money came through. Onward. By the way, you are a star now, you shouldn’t be drawing anything for less than five dollars.