Medieval Guy wrote:
He says that he made more on Kick-Ass (the comic book) than on any of his Marvel books. And since he's the one who sees his royalty statements... I'm inclined to suspect he's right.

The economics of a moderately successful creator-owned book have to be a lot more favorable than even a wildly successful work-for-hire.
Well, Millar has been known to wildly exaggerate things in the past, hence some of us being a little dubious.  Plus, I can't imagine that he wasn't including movie income as part of his blanket statement
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The biggest problem with a creator-owned book is publicity, promotion and distribution.  Those are major hurdles, and if you ask any independent small press comic creator, you'll find that none of them are getting rich anytime soon.  For this particular book, the major hurdles were taken care of due to Millar's association with Marvel.




'Reading' / 'Reading soon' stack: DC/Vertigo - ArtOps, Batgirl, Gotham Academy, Gotham by Midnight, Injustice; Marvel - Allred's Silver Surfer; Other - Abe Sapien, Descender, Fight Club 2, Goon, Mind MGMT, Southern Bastards