August 11, 2011
Go, Read: Meredith Gran On The Value Of Paying People
You've probably already seen it discussed, but if you've been reluctant to go read the cartoonist Meredith Gran's lengthy suggestion that a way to help women in comics is to pay them, stop and go read it:
it's a well-written, smart post. Gary Tyrrell
suspects that an impetus for that post was that
a recently announced and massively successfully crowd-funded anthology to feature female creators offers exposure and perhaps some sort of exposure-driven program instead of pay; whether or not that was her intention, it's hard for me to believe people could discuss Gran's lengthy statement and not bring this up as a matter of contention. That project now has enough money to pay its contributors and should, just as comics in general should get over its embrace of the subtle, pernicious exploitation of constantly accepting or even suggesting free work from people. Comics has a few charities where free work is appropriate. I'm not certain it is anywhere else, and I'm not sure we're tough enough as an arts culture in demanding from people who accept labor that they're responsible for not just a plan for what to do with it but for bringing a checkbook to the table. We can all do better, myself included.
posted 4:10 am PST |
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