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Kelly Turnbull

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Imagine being surprised that if you want to hire the President, Publisher, and CEO of DC comics to personally draw you a bespoke original piece of art, it would be prohibitively expensive.

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Deerlady83's avatar Deerlady83 @deerlady83.bsky.social
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He isn’t charging more?

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Michael Bischoff's avatar Michael Bischoff @mpbmke.bsky.social
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Versus being surprised that the dude will actually take commissions in the first place.

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Gilmoure's avatar Gilmoure @gilmoure.bsky.social
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Meanwhile, over at Michael Whelan’s shop…

www.michaelwhelan.com/shop/origina...

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Jesse's avatar Jesse @jesse-k.bsky.social
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"the guy who drew the highest selling issue of X-Men ever wants $20k for a custom drawing? that seems like what that would cost."

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Thomas 🚀 SFF180's avatar Thomas 🚀 SFF180 @sff180.bsky.social
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Comics fandom is made up of nerdy bros who expect to be able to buy full pages of original comics art for like $20.

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OK Smarty's avatar OK Smarty @taterpie.bsky.social
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I'd like the single most famous architect in America to design me a house for a grand, myself.

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Kelly Turnbull's avatar Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social
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Like, if you wanted to buy a Jim Lee sketch that already exists and he did not take time out of his day to make for you, personally, it would cost more than that.

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「Behemoth」's avatar 「Behemoth」 @begemot.bsky.social
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He's probably low-balling it, honestly

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Sean Aitchison's avatar Sean Aitchison @sean8urson.bsky.social
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“Could Taylor Swift just do a little song for me for like $30 please?”

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Devilboy Bitch Baby (18+ content)'s avatar Devilboy Bitch Baby (18+ content) @desdemonical.bsky.social
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People are always trying to find a famous or high price-point artist or actor demanding fair wages to attack and frame as unreasonably expensive in order to hide the grotesquely anti-labor and daddy-i-want-a-pony entitlement ppl have towards artists

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Classic McDavid's avatar Classic McDavid @henchman21.bsky.social
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Gasp! It's all so dumb.

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