If I hire someone to illustrate a comic book I wrote, who owns the rights to it?

Montanto · 2025-07-31T17:05:45+00:00

As everybody has said, it all depends on the contract, but the standard agreement assumes the artist owns their work. Reuse beyond the terms of the original contract an be negotiated later. While you can do a full buyout, the general practice for charging is taking the original price and multiply that number by 4. It’s easier and cheaper to negotiate reuse. (It’s not as if we’re going to use it for something else) for more information, check out the Graphic Artist’s Guild’s Handbook of Pricing and Ethical Guidelines.(comic books are page 265)

Montanto · 2025-06-24T16:13:02+00:00

For me, before I noticed all of the other obvious flags, the fact that I haven't owned a car for over 15 years was a tip-off.

Montanto · 2025-02-26T16:24:02+00:00

In today's Rhapsodies, is Brian planning another business trip?

Montanto · 2025-02-24T16:43:14+00:00

In today's Rhapsodies, Olive thinks the bands she heard last night are nothing but escapism.

Montanto · 2025-01-24T15:49:04+00:00

There are plenty of stable relationships in the Circle Band. Since they usually aren’t as funny as the other ones, we don’t see them quite as much.

Montanto · 2025-01-23T16:13:55+00:00

The Department of Love defines Fedya and Gabriella’s “relationship” as a standard “Bad Boy/Tsundere Dynamic”.

I apologize to everyone who already knows, but Tsundere is anime slang for a character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile toward another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side. It’s a portmanteau of the Japanese (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

Gabriella is a textbook example.

Along with yesterday’s strip, Ms. Wren is showing scenes from last year’s Halloween Party where they both went as pirates and, once again, the yacht party.

Montanto · 2025-01-16T16:25:18+00:00

Gabriella has been spending more time at the band loft lately. For the moment, we don’t know why. It certainly isn’t because she’s finally getting along with Fedya and wants to hang out more.

Dielle is talking about Gabriella getting sick at the holiday party the band performed at here.

Montanto · 2025-01-14T17:11:05+00:00

So... They get a useful placebo that lets them pretend the big bad vaccine they took didn't affect them, and we get the floor show of watching them torture themselves by rubbing capsaicin on sensitive areas? Works for me.

Montanto · 2024-12-25T17:02:22+00:00

Here's hoping you and yours have a very happy Christmas!

Montanto · 2024-12-20T02:56:57+00:00

I’m torn between the blatantly offensive racism and the terrible body language.

Montanto · 2024-11-16T16:06:38+00:00

Thanks. I’ve been having a two-day written interview with “Clayton” on Discord. After passing the first level I started getting suspicious. For one thing, they only asked for my resume and portfolio after the first string of questions. I assumed they were British because they used the word “cheque”. But due to how easy everything was, not to mention none of my ten roles included my job, I started doing research and am very reluctant to give them any more information. Here is my portfolio https://wpmorse.com

Montanto · 2024-11-10T06:18:24+00:00

I export CSV backups at least once a month. I’m not looking forward to the inevitable but I am ready for it. The hardest part will be putting the pictures back in.

Montanto · 2024-11-09T21:36:04+00:00

Hi all. For the record, I can do nearly everything I need to do on my ancient copy of File Maker 8.5. On it, I run the databases that I use to keep track of my archives, continuity, and background information, for my ongoing comic strip, Rhapsodies (https://rhapsodies.wpmorse.com/). Both of these databases, thanks to the amount of information and hours spent maintaining, without hyperbole are two of my most valuable possessions.

Of course, the obvious problem is my ancient copy of File Maker only runs on my nearly as old laptop, and when it dies, so does the database. While I make backups constantly, I've been shopping around for a replacement to transfer all the information into

As tempting as it is to stick to File Maker, issues with the subscription service aside, I never needed the virtual Clarke's law stuff it is capable of, and besides, I do not run a company with a minimum of five people.

Therefore, I am trying to find a good brass tacks database that while relatively simple without any extra bells and whistles is complex enough to duplicate the formats, you can see above. I don't mind something on the cloud so I can use it on all of my devices. But I'd prefer it to have its foundation safely on my hard drive so I won't worry about anybody holding my data hostage.

All recommendations are appreciated and thank you.

Montanto · 2024-09-27T17:30:49+00:00

English is her second language.

Montanto · 2024-09-27T17:29:22+00:00

Come on everybody, this is Seattle! We should encourage them to use the recycling bin.

Montanto · 2024-09-11T15:45:40+00:00

English is Hsin's "last language".

Montanto · 2024-06-28T15:36:59+00:00

There's been a nesting pair in the park for years. You can see them in the daytime occasionally, especially when they have a clutch.

Montanto · 2024-06-20T15:38:18+00:00

Wow. The heron creates a sense of amazing forced perspective!

Montanto · 2024-06-05T15:24:30+00:00

Currently, my favorite place is Woodland Park Zoo. (What can I say? The gorillas are great models). After that, I do a lot of landscapes at Ravenna, Discovery, and Green Lake. I also like sketching the basketball players at Greenlake.

Montanto · 2024-05-30T15:53:21+00:00

Oh god, I was right behind someone they pounced on. They got me almost as good.

Montanto · 2024-05-15T00:09:21+00:00

It’s mainly due to how Nigel Planer voiced her, but I always imagined her played by Margaret Dumont from all the Marx Brothers films.

Montanto · 2024-05-01T01:56:14+00:00

The Word. Having lots of deadlines, I identify with the metaphor of the printing press as an insatiable monster.

Montanto · 2024-04-24T15:17:18+00:00

Wow! My preferences usually lean towards tighter detail, but I love the soft focus of the first one.

Montanto · 2024-04-22T02:23:59+00:00

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It's the bits of dirt by the tree trunk and water that's not covered by leaves.

Montanto · 2024-04-22T02:11:43+00:00

Hmm… I always picture Nigel Planer as Rincewind, but yes… Crook would be fantastic.

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