However that’s nothing compared to the following e-mail from an angry, anonymous German guy hiding behind his e-mail address bloooba-sixpack@yahoo.de I got after starting some threads in various art forums searching for an artist for Sandra and Woo.
I wonder if it’s a new world record to receive hate mail even before posting the very first comic. I also wonder if stupidity is rampant among artists (see his last line), since 60 of them were very interested in drawing Sandra and Woo. Besides that, he managed to get all the facts of my offer wrong. But that should not come as a surprise.
Here is the original, I have translated, for everybody who speaks German:Hello,
I have just read your website and the requirements for your comic.
Sounds good and very ambitious.
However, your price ideas for such a project surprise me.
You do want to pay $xx for a page?
This is really the shit, that there are always people who think to have super-duper ideas which other people should then realize so that it will be great.
But then, they don’t want to pay for it.
Just make inquiries at the IO about the current hourly rate and what you can expect for your petty tip.
If anybody should reply to this, he is quite stupid!
Really a great project you're starting there und I wish that your clients will honor it just the way you honor your illustrator.
Hallo,
ich habe mir gerade mal Deine Website angeschaut und die Anforderungen zu Deinem Comic durchgelesen.
Klingt gut und sehr anspruchsvoll!
Allerdings haben mich Deine Vorstellungen von den Preisen für so ein Projekt doch etwas überrascht!
Du möchtest $ xx für eine Seite bezahlen?
Echt der Hammer, da gibt es immerwieder Leute, die meinen eine ganz tolle Idee zu haben, die dann andere umsetzen und so realisieren sollen, dass es toll wird.
Aber dafür bezahlen wollen sie dann nicht.
Erkundige Dich mal bei der IO, wie der derzeitige Stundensatz ist und was Du für Dein läppisches Trinkgeld erwarten kannst.
Wenn sich da einer meldet ist er ziemlich bescheuert!
Klasse Projekt was Du da startest und ich wünsch Dir, dass Dir Deine Klienten oder Kunden es genauso honorieren, wie Du Deinen Illustrator honorierst!