Disney Reportedly Paying Comics Creators $5,000 for Movie/ TV Adaptions
Not a good look Disney, you greedy bastards.
Report: Disney Is Only Paying Comics Creators $5,000 for Work It's Adapted for Billions
Marvel and other studios are once again under fire for paying comics creators a pittance for their work.
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It’s been largely understood that most creators at the Big Two and in mainstream comics are generally “work-for-hire” contractors who have no ownership of the intellectual property they create for the publishers. Recently though, more and more comics creators have been speaking publicly about the experience of watching their ideas be capitalized on by some of the
largest corporate juggernauts, only for the creators themselves to receive little to none of the financial profit generated by the
properties derived from their work. While there have been multiple stories about comics creators getting the cold shoulder both from the comics companies and the film studios they’ve been connected to, a new report from the
Guardian lays out in detail how the situations at Disney/Marvel and
DC/Warner Bros./AT&T have been particularly galling.
According to the Guardian’s sources, Marvel’s standard approach to compensating writers or artists when their work appears in a
Marvel Studios film is a flat $5,000 check along with an invitation to the film premiere. Writer
Ed Brubaker—who along with artist Steve Epting, colorist Frank D’Armata, and letterer Randy Gentile, crafted the
Captain America comics run that defined the Winter Soldier—previously spoke fairly openly about how
he basically made nothing from the character’s jump to the MCU in multiple films and
his own streaming series.