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a Thanksgiving story


Justin Coro Kaufman

Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…

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Pricing, Aftermarket, and Secondary Market Artist Compensation for Magic


Donato Giancola

November 2, 2024 - [caption id="attachment_78605" align="aligncenter" width="1600"] First to Last, Amber Prison 1996 to Aetherspark 2024.[/caption] Pricing, Aftermarket, and Secondary Market Artist Compensation This is the part of artist relations Wizards of the Coast is NOT going to like to talk about in public. This is why laid-off employees need to sign Non Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) to receive severance packages. Corporations do not like public facts. Since I will likely never work for Wizards again, and have already stopped accepting new commissions from them for over a year now, I feel the need to share all of this factual, public information to drive the conversation regarding compensation into the light and force Wizards to engage in change for those artists, digital and traditional, who still rely upon them as an income source. Let’s start at the beginning. The…

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