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I'm not making this up...
quote: For a significant five-figure sum, too. Substantially more, for a substantially better deal, than exclusivities that friends and acquaintances of mine have signed over the last several years.
And this is the deal. I'm committed to creating new material under creator-ownership and creator-participation deals.
DC are committed to my creating new material under creator-ownership and creator-participation deals.
For a pleasant amount of money, I take all my new projects to DC -- and that's ALL DC imprints, inclusive of Wildstorm and Homage -- in an expanded version of the relationship I have with them now. Which means that I can now bug VP Managing Editor Terri Cunningham directly if I feel like it, and can share my extensive collection of Latvian tractor pornography with Paul Levitz. Or at least email it to him via an anonymising service.
The arrangement does not prevent me from completing my outstanding projects for other publishers, nor does it prevent me from promoting those projects when they're released.
Oh, and as a courtesy, I'm finally going to do that DCU project I promised Joey Cavalieri I'd give him when he returned to DC six years back. Can't hold out any longer.
That's it.
Here's why I'm doing it.
They asked me. And they took the trouble to listen to what I've been saying to them over the last few years and designed the offer specifically to my needs, so that the document I signed Tuesday does not differ in any way from what I was verbally offered a couple of weeks back. This was evidence of giving a shit.
DC do everything right. We've had arguments about content before, and the edge of the envelope is always an uncomfortable place to be. But in terms of business, they do everything right. Foreign sales, foreign sales *payments*, the excellent trade paperback program, the growing commitment to original graphic novels, the continued commitment to creator-ownership... all the things I care about, they get right.
I mean, think about it here. "Warren, here's all the things you're going to do anyway. Have some extra money for it, as part of an expanded relationship that'll make it easier to do all these things, and make it even easier to do more of them afterwards." What would you do?
So, I guess together with Morrison's The Filth, this is DC's secret masterplan to fight back against the Marvel renaissance... |
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