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Robert White
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It could have something to do with JB reaching 60. If the payments keep getting smaller, something is definitely up...
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Gundars Berzins
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Cash um deposit the check but make a nice copy to frame?
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Andrew Davey
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The Accounting Department here.
The cost of cutting just one check is high when you factor in all the fixed costs. But one more check of many in the whole accounts payable cycle of thousands of checks has a very low marginal cost.
Edited by Andrew Davey on 04 September 2013 at 7:46am
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Tim O Neill
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This is such a wild coincidence, because I was going to ask if I could borrow ninety eight cents from you, JB.
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John Byrne
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This check is kind of the Cosmic Balance to one I received shortly after I moved into this house. A Company I Shall Not Name claimed to have "forgotten" to send me the royalty checks on a Property I Shall Not Name -- for TEN YEARS!! The check was for five figures, and the first was not a 1! I actually called them to make sure the decimal was in the right place. Got apologies, and an assurance it would not happen again. Then didn't see another check from them for FIVE years -- and again, five figures! So ridiculous! Having to cough up those amounts in lump sums like that must have taken a helluva bite out of their annual budget. SO much smarter to just, you know, PAY ME ON TIME!!
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John Byrne
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Meanwhile, found out yesterday that IDW doesn't pay royalties on the STAR TREK stuff. Seems the licensing fee is so large they have virtually nothing left over. So here I find myself unexpectedly in the exact opposite position of what I knowingly agreed to with my creator owned stuff: there, no page rate, but royalties on the trades. On the TREK stuff, a page rate, but no royalties.Still hope the photonovel is a big seller, tho. I want to do more!!
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Wilson Mui
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Was the page rate on the TREK stuff at least higher than the rate for the creator owned projects?
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Robert White
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This all goes to show that companies aren't as smart or as savvy as we think they are even about the sole reason they exist: making money.
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John Byrne
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Was the page rate on the TREK stuff at least higher than the rate for the creator owned projects?•• For the stuff I penciled and inked, it was the same. For the photonovel, quite a bit lower. Funny to find myself in roughly the same position at opposite ends of my career. When I started in comics, there was no real money, and I did it because I loved it. Now, once again, no real money, and I do it because I love it. Happily, there has never really been a "middle ground", where the money was more, but the love was less!
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Brian Lewis
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Checks like that always make me laugh. The craziest was when I received a check for something, I can't remember what exactly, that was for less than the stamp. I do like the idea of continuing to call for the reissue. That is all sorts of funny.
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Andy Mokler
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Reminds me of the time a pay phone(check your history books...uh, I mean Google it) at my quarter. It must have been one of those days because all I remember was that it irk'ed me so much I called the complaint number that was posted. Foolishly, I thought they had some remote way to make the phone kick back a quarter.
Months later I received a check for .25¢. Pretty sure I've still got it.
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Marcio Ferreira
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| Posted: 04 September 2013 at 10:27am | IP Logged | 12
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I just thought that this check would worth a lot more to collectors than the figures in it. Not sure how much, but at least a thousand.
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