Commission /Illustrator (It’s quite a challenge so please read carefully)
We need to source an illustrator for a graphic novel that will accompany the stage 1 development of academic work and then next year may be included as part of the published book.
It is a factual history (1880-1920) zine to be carefully written and storyboarded.
Our ideal candidate would be someone like Clifford Harper but I believe he’s retired. We also like the book illustrations of Eileen Soper. It will be mostly figures set in the context of the time, mostly male with recognisable features and a VERY strong narrative. Experience with conversation and animal rights projects would help you to understand the themes.
We are at an early stage and need to build this project alongside the main work, so an outline of how you prefer to work and how you want to charge or frame your fees would help. You retain copyright at this stage (the audience will be small, perhaps 200 academics/organisations) but if we include you in the published work there will be negotiations about your fee and usage with the publisher (directly or with your agent).
Please respond directly to me (depesando@gmail.com), there is plenty more information available.
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- @Jules Durham Hi Jules - fair points but it's a lot more complex than my brief notes above and we've gone into it carefully with a very experienced illustrator and publishing agent already. My intention here is to emphasise that it's a paid job, the candidate is treated with respect and they are in control of their work. It's not something I'd call commercial in the usual sense at this stage. It's also REALLY difficult - there is a good chance we won't find anyone.
- A word of advice, IMHO. Negotiate the usage rights BEFORE you potentialy publish. If you don't, and then want to publish but cannot agree on right usage you're XXXXX. Do you really want to recommission the illustrations again?
- where it says 'conversation' - it should say 'conservation'... bloody autocorrect..
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