at the age of 38, has brought a new focus on the working pressures on modern comic book creators, with the hashtag #ComicsBrokeMe.tweeted"Every post about Ian McGinty is"he was the nicest dude in the world, he encouraged me as a young artist, he was so funny and kind" and then, inevitably:"he worked so, so, so much". He worked more than I thought was possible, just constant creative output. He loved comics so much. All he wanted to do was make art.
and loads and loads of increadibly generous people who donated to the Just Giving they set up, we had enough money to live on while she recuperated"Most of you know me through my work at Iron Circus, where I've worked since 2019. I recently asked for a raise, since I've been making $1875 a month this year.Spike refused. She has told business contacts that I quit. I assure you I did not.
We were doing that for 2 yrs straight, stressing about deadlines, and still needing to take on supplementary work and eventually Lark was like"okay, time to slow down. We proved we could do this…we don't need to keep proving it, it's not sustainable" We love making comics, we've continued on Woven , and can't imagine doing anything else. But if we're gonna continue making comics, it cannot be on the weekly publishing at the current rates.