I need the council and or advice on how to react to something that just occurred heres the story: I signed an artist to do our second issue in our establishing series contract was signed In February of this year with a contract date of May 10 2014. A series of events happened and not only did I invoke the 30 day extension (June 10th) clause for the artist but also allowed a pay advance ($195) to help out in a tight spot paying for three COMPLETED pages that had been done out of a 24 page project in about three months...technically four months. The artist then breached contract by not being finished with the project by not only contractual date, but the extended date as well. Seeing as this person is also a friend of the company and that we as a small upstart small press (Rapid-Fire Comics) I reminded him of the penalty of a 20% reduction (we had a similar situation with the first artists that did our first project so in the new contract we included a penalty clause) in rate seeing as we need it completed. We kept him on it and continued to work with him on both business and personal levels. (He was up to page 11/24 inked even at this point still not completed with the project) It is now three months past due he is working under contract breach status and I receive a message from the artist this morning stating he is refunding the money for the three pages we advanced him money for or paid him for and that hes pretty much abandoning our project leaving us high and dry with no product at all not even the three pages... because he was offended by a post I made to my business partner about the graph below. And that he is basically not going to continue our project because he was offended and feels that we do not value artists at all yet weve broken our back to help him at every turn and also continue to work with him even after the major delay in progress, yet hes currently under contract still AND is in fact three months over due and has severely delayed out companies progress. Because me and my co founder have always felt that writers were in our opinion viewed as lesser in the equation versus artist (this was not mentioned in the post) How should we as a company approach this situation??
Posted on: Sat, 23 Aug 2014 13:37:27 +0000
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