One of Tom Spurgeon’s “100 positives” from 2013:
You might have to trust me on this one, because the public dialogue about money in the comics industry is still as closed-mouth and fearful and puffed with pride as ever, but I did notice this year I was privy to a lot more private conversation where actual dollar figures about, and actual stands were taken about doing work that involved sub-standard pay or no pay at all not just in the abstract but ‘I’m not going to do that job for that person.’