Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for June 11, 2024

OK, so is the joke “Nobody ever paid me for my work before, but I kept doing it anyway” or is it “I never thought anyone would ever actually pay me money for my work”? Neither interpretation is particularly logical, but what else could he even mean here?

Where’s Crankshaft?

Once again, Thomas reaches to the tabula rasa of the human psyche, touching all of humanity in a way that everyone can relate to on a deep and personal level. For, inside, are we not ALL

…100 years old and wanting royalty checks for comical books? Flash: “FIRST SMIRK’S ON ME, BOYS!”

Phil Holt: “Christ, I’m right here! And DEAD! And you ignore me?!”

(Doesn’t this heavily imply that the royalty check is just for the one book Jeff bought? Meaning, he’s never seen a PENNY from the multi-billion grossing Slopbucket Jones movies?)

ahem The people of Easter Island are still waiting for you to pay them for the way you copied their stone idols.

Hey, where’s Mental Midget? If Jff’s inner child isn’t there, does it mean Jff is hallucinating this whole scene?

All you critics should pick up pen and ink, maybe you are better. This is just a comic strip…

Frikkin’ comic books.. makes me wanna barf..

Is that why Mopey Pete quits the komix book job? He no get no royalty?

Considering how long it took Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster to be recognized and compensated for being the creators of “Superman,” this little comic strip makes a point …

Now the only question is how to spend that $3.45…

Hey look it’s that guy who used to be dead but then magically came back to life.

Pay it forward!!!!

Royalties for comic book work are a recent development. I think it all started when the Siegel and Shuster families sued DC Comics.

the excitement will be too much this week for sure

Still better than then other forms of entertainment where the bean counters use funny math to make sure the studio gets theirs first and foremost.

Jerry Seinfeld gets $118 million a year in royalties!

No royalty check?

That’s what he gets — or doesn’t get — for working in a country which has no monarchy.

keith hillend found love late in life and flash freeman found royalties

Just to beat this dead horse a little further: do newspaper reporters get per-copy royalties for their stories? Because Google sucks, I cannot tell how much the Washington Post’s circulation went up during the Watergate scandal, but I recall (having been around at the time) it increased quite a bit. Did Woodward and Bernstein get a royalty based on that boost? Far as I can tell, no.

Gotta show this strip to my wife. She self-published her first novel last year, and she’ll be able to relate.