Well, some kindly person bought my beloved Jim Murray cover painting of Ukko from Prog 1011 on auction at eBay, contributing ?475 to the tax fund bill.
I've relisted the Murray, Brashill & Sampson artwork pin-up of the Space Girls at a lower price, and added my last piece of 2000 AD art as a new listing...
Cover art, Prog 1127, Simon Davis paints Sinister Dexter for the opening episode of Eurocrash - starting price of ?250.
davidbishop
Link: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6633587246&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMESE%3AIT&rd=1
Tax fund Bill? you havent been naughty have you?
Chance'd be a fine thing. No, I started a Screenwriter MA last September and my income has plunged dramatically as a consequence. But the tax man still assumes I'm earning as much as I did the year before and wants his pound of flesh.
The git.
Sounds like it'd be easier to give them a pound of flesh ;)
Old Newspapers? Top Hats? More Inspector Morse?
I can't help but look what people have bought off eBay in the past.
Hello David
Did you know that by law now all living artists are entitled to a small percentage of royalties from the re-sale of their work.......the law has just come in so could affect the comic artworld....that said, David , you had the faith to give me my first gig so needless to say you are welcome to all proceeds...or should I say the taxman is....
Hope all is well and best wishes for the MA..
Simon Davis
Is that actually true?
Yes it is...I was contacted via one of the galleries I supply.....it is probably long overdue as the artworld is littered with artists who become popular and have work re-sold for a fortune..it's more relevant in the fine art world as paintings by a successful artist generally increase in value substantially.....which leads to dealers buying work as though it were stocks and shares..it's the same principle as with music on the radio...a body keeps tabs on when a tune is played and the artist gets a royalty...
The difficulty I have is convincing people to buy my stuff in the first place.....
Simon Davis
so what if you have got a pic for free as in gone to a convetion and got a scetch would i have to pay a percentage if i sold a scetch on?
That'd actually be a great solution to the problem of artists doing free sketches at cons and then seeing them on eBay the next day.
Of course,with Ebay, actually ensuring that the resale fee got paid might be a pain in the arse....
Nice idea though.
"a body keeps tabs on when a tune is played and the artist gets a royalty... "
In theory ... they're called the MCPS and they are supposed to monitor all instances where an artist's music might be played (in shops, by DJs, etc) - these are known as Mechanical Rights.
However, they only favour really big artists, who don't need the money anyway! Having been involved in the past with a small record label (Nightbreed), I know that the smaller independents (not just Mr Bamford at NB) are quite scathing about the MCPS ...
Cheers
Jim
...i noticed on your auction page that you have another item of art for sale, i wonder why you didnt mention that at the same time, ho ho...
What art? Are you referring to "I've relisted the Murray, Brashill & Sampson artwork pin-up of the Space Girls at a lower price" - as mentioned above?
davidbishop, easily confused
thats excellent about the art re-sale royalties, but what sort of percentage, and how on earth would it be enforcable?
does it also work for pottery ? there was a bric a bracy/ junk/ antique? shop in dingwall where my pottery would appear secondhand, for the same price i sold it at..bizarre.
vicky ..doing a mental backtrack of 25 years worth of naff art sold...
...Space Girls, yup! thats the one!!! no Chronos Carnival???...
I've just had a look at the new 'Droit de suite' regulations and it doesn't look like it will affect much of what happens with comic art on eBay and the like.
The minimum sale price for artist resale royalties is 3000 Euros, and it doesn't apply to "resales between individuals acting in their private capacity, without the participation of an art market professional; and to resales by persons acting in their private capacity to museums which are not for profit and are open to the public."
At the moment it only applies to living artists but from 2012 it will apply to sales up to 70 years after the artist's death.
Cheers,
Wake
Link: UK Patent Office
Why don't you move over here to Ireland where writers and artists live tax free, well not exactly true in two years time they are changing the law so that the first half a million you make in income is tax free!( Only half a million bastards!)
> Why don't you move over here to Ireland where writers and artists live tax free...
We certainly do! I haven't paid income tax on any of my earnings as a writer for the past thirteen years!
Of course, given that I work about eighty hours a week and earn less than I would if I worked a normal week at minimum wage, not having to pay tax isn't quite the boost you might think.
(One of my friends has worked out that for one of his books eBay sellers have made more money from flogging his uncorrected proofs than he's earned from the book itself.)
-- Mike
The picture looks kinda like it was painted with the rectangle style logo in mind, do you know if thats the case?
(One of my friends has worked out that for one of his books eBay sellers have made more money from flogging his uncorrected proofs than he's earned from the book itself.)
Maybe he should start selling his uncorrected proofs on Ebay himself then?
I still think theres a market for artists sketches on Ebay. If some of the ones done for people at cons are just going on Ebay might as well make some money out of it themselves!