Attached some art from what I’ve drawn this month, it amounts to one episode of Dredd, two episodes of Leopard from Lime Street, and one 10 page one off by Paul Cornell (no images, sorry!) for Ahoy.
Penciled 28 pages this month, and inked 46 – a number so insane, I’m not sure it’s accurate, but I guess it must be? (certainly the ticks in my weekly diary suggest it is)
Anyway. My prodigious rate has slowed, to a not unreasonable but still a bit bonkers one complete page per day, seven days per week. I think I can afford to slow to about 6 pages per week, and have a day off. Wherein I might … do unpaid comics work (because I am incapable of very little else)
six pages per week, over four weeks is 24 pages, at, say a reasonable page rate (this isn’t my actual page rate, but a good ballpark to work with) around £150 is £3,600 per month (about £43k per year), a third going to the taxman means your take home is £2,400. (Don’t weep for me, I know this is good money)
But that’s never how this stuff goes. Far more likely I hit a couple of months of forty pages then absoloutly nothing at all for a few months. Or I do a graphic novel for £100 per page on the hope the backend will see me right (or because there was literally no other work in the offing).
I love my job but if there was a way to do it and earn a regular fixed salary with sickness and holiday pay, I’d jump at it.