We miss you, Chuck; in retrospect, you weren't that bad.
And for more recent evidence, as Colleen Doran pointed out earlier last month, comics page rates, in many cases, haven't increased much in the last twenty years:
OK, I'm just going to call this out here We've got small presses doing comics and kickstarter projects crowing about[...]
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These are common comic book work-for-hire industry rates, compiled by Alex De Campi, and shown off at Special Edition: NYC at the weekend as part of a