DC Comics creators Dustin Nguyen, Tini Howard, Jackson Lanzing & Jeff Parker reveal the one and only time you a comic creator should work for free
It’s an age-old question: should new comic creators work for free when they’re trying to break into the industry? DC editor-in-chief Marie Javins and a group of comic creators addressed the subject during Emerald City Comic Con 2024’s Breaking into the Source Wall panel, intended to help newcomers get into comics as a business.
“I’m on a different track from everyone else. I came in as an intern and I joined the staff at Marvel Comics,” Javins admitted at the start of the panel, going on to say that the most reliable way to get a staff position at a comic publisher is begin as an intern and demonstrate how reliable you can be. “I assume most people here are looking to become freelance,” she said, by way of introducing her panelists — each one of whom was a freelancer, and each one of whom had an opinion on the topic of working for free.
“As an artist you’re going to create anyway. I did work for free for myself. But if someone requested something, and they said I’d get paid in exposure, I didn’t feel like doing it at all,” explained Dustin Nguyen. "The only way I’d do something I didn’t want to do is to pay me a lot of money.”
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