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The Dotted Logline: The Value of Work and Womanthology

mindeclipse:

There’s currently a lot of discussion going on about how women (and creators in general) need to be paid for their work in comics and entertainment. I agree with this 1000% because I like having food and shelter and an internet connection.

However the dialogue somehow changed into anger about…

This. We all had different reasons—exposure, real printed publishing, altruism, idealusm, networking b/c unable to find an artist on our own…etc—but everyone went in knowing it was pro-bono, a long shot, and we might not even have a shot at a comp copy.

We picked the charity and the theme ourselves on the boards, everyone turning in a script or pencils clearly believes in it since there’s a long line of replacements behind us. Go ahead and ask all you want (most questions seem to have been answered already), but please don’t devalue it, and please don’t act as if we’re all naive girls who’ve been conned into something.