#wowww thats a big oof
i know we’re all excited for crystal kingdom to come out (i am too!!) but when it does, please keep in mind:
- the artists for the fanart gallery were originally offered $100 which, from a bestselling publishing company, is unacceptable. we would never have been paid more if people hadn’t spoken up about it.
- we submitted our work in mid october and were told we would be sent our contracts within two weeks. i was finally paid less than a month ago.
-some people still haven’t been paid.
- personally, this was hands down the worst freelance i have ever done. the level of stress and anticipation and not-knowing was awful and i know i’ll question working for any major company in the future.
-this is not the mcelroys’ fault, however first second has a history of not treating their artists with the respect and professionalism we deserve and it clearly hasn’t gotten any better.
Yo, this sucks to type and I was hoping I wouldn’t have to keep waiting beyond this point, but I have yet to be paid for my contribution to the TAZ gn, and I have no idea why.
All the paperwork was processed back in June. I assumed it would take at least a week to distribute all the payments. And I was moving apartments at the time, so it wasn’t a high priority focus. But when the beginning of July rolled around with no change, I thought, “this isn’t adding up.” I emailed one of the directors at First Second to ask about it, but that was right after the 4th of July, and I got an autoresponse that said that the office was closed for the holiday. Which was disappointing, but I thought, “Okay, I’ll wait a few days and try again.”
I sent another email last Friday, which got another response that the director would be away until the 13th. The emails of their assistants were included in that one, so I sent an email to one of them first thing this morning. I am still awaiting a response. So. Yeah. My excitement has been pretty severely dampened because of the whole deal.
