Bradlee,

asked some friends, one came up with this from 2001:


"Straight from the Graphic Artist Guild Handbook for Pricing and Ethic Guidelines (2001):

Comparative Page Rates for Comic Book Art:

Writers (plot and script) $75-120
Painted art $150- 350
Layouts/Breakdowns $35-100
Penciled Art $55-200
Background art $10-25
Ink Art $45-150
Lettering $18-35
Lettering on overlay $20-35
Coloring art $75-150" (coloring adj. per comments at drawing board.org)

Marvel and DC (at least at one point) have additional payments based on sales ie. royalty like payment. "



I mentioned Jim Lee and Batman: Hush. It's said Todd McFarlane was paid 1.5 million to work on his Spider-Man title.

Guessing that the big name writers and artists will get a whole lot more. DC/Marvel has brought in non-comics people (but they are comics fans) like Joss Whedon and Brad Meltzer to name 2 to work on their books.

and as an artist, if you are popular, you could go to cons and sell sketches.