Comic Book Artist: Don't Buy My Book.

Comic book artists don't make a lot, most don't even see any profit from their books, if you book sold 1 or 1 million copies it doesn't matter to your wallet, although your future earnings may be different for new work.

It didn't used to be like this where the creative teams would see royalties and what not.

If you've ever read Batman comics then you've either read or own Batman: Year One. DC being the untimely rubes that they are, are releasing a deluxe edition of Batman: Year One to coincide with the 8 months the animated version of the book >.>

According to the original artist David Mazzucchelli, the new edition is crap. Now if you have read Year One, you know the art is amazing, especially for a time without computers. It's a gorgeous pulp style that no one does (why I don't know), with fantastic colouring that shows professional training at a high level.

He remarks about the new edition:

"First, they redesigned the cover, and recolored my artwork — probably to look more like their little DVD that came out last year; second, they printed the book on shiny paper, which was never a part of the original design, all the way back to the first hardcover in 1988; third — and worst — they printed the color from corrupted, out-of-focus digital files, completely obscuring all of Richmond’s hand-painted work."

I never realized that artists would create a certain way based on the kind of paper they knew it would come out on. Regardless for the whole story head over here.  I actually like the new cover but not over the old one.