Erin's Alan Moore Interview

[andrewducker]

can be found here.

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[andrewducker]

Apparently film treats writers far worse. There's a short story in Neil Gaiman's Smoke and Mirrors on the subject, based on his own experiences.

[heron61.livejournal.com]

Emotionally perhaps, but unlike comics and RPGs, one has not only a near guarantee of getting paid, but also the not unreasonable hope that one can make vast sums of money. A successful screenwriter makes (at least) a solid middle-class income, successful comics and RPG writers are lucky not to have to work a second job.

[andrewducker]

True, but then the audience is far larger. Writing things aimed at only a few people is only rarely going to result in being paid a lot of money.

If your audience is only 50,000 people strong you're only going to be able to live off your art if they're paying large amounts of money each.