| Posted: 16 May 2012 at 5:19am | IP Logged | 9
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When there are retailers who will refuse to order my work even for customers who want it?*** This degree of irrationality could drive you into a permanent vacation! Unbelievably disheartening.... •• Especially since, as with so much else, it's based on myth. Some retailers refuse to order my work because "Byrne's stuff doesn't sell." Now, aside from the fact that this is self-fulfilling prophecy, as any reasonable businessman will tell you, and aside from the fact that it's inherently contradictory, if this is being said to someone who WANTS to buy my work. . . Well, last week I received a royalty check from Marvel. As I opened the envelope, walking up my driveway from the mailbox, I was fully expecting to find one of the $35.76 "mystery checks" that turn up from time to time. I didn't. In fact the check I found was a lot more than that. Like close to a thousand times more! And what was interesting was this was not an "accumulated" check, like the ones I sometimes get from DarkHorse after they've gone a few years "forgetting" to pay me my HELLBOY royalties. Nope, this check was almost entirely my share of the sales on the FF Omnibus that came out a while back. That big, thumping, $75 hardcover. Given that this was a reprint, my royalty on each issue sold would have been quite small -- but the check wasn't. So, somewhere out there there were enough people willing to cough up a BIG pile of cash for their copies that it rather puts the lie to the idea that my stuff "doesn't sell".
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