Superhero Times: a service of Action Online
The ACTOR group was on hand during Wizard World Chicago this year to bring awareness to the fact that many Golden Age or Silver Age creators toiled in comics’ earlier days for low pay and with a nonexistent pension plan.
Very often, writers would work for a penny a word, or artists for $5 a page with no chance of ownership and no pension. Today, many of these people who laid the groundwork that today’s comic industry works on may be in financial need. Be it due to age, health, or just low salaries with no retirement plan, they may need a hand. ACTOR provides a safety net for former comic creators in need. ACTOR is dedicated to helping creators with emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and entrée back into paying work.
ACTOR creates a financial safety net for yesterday’s creators who may need emergency medical aid, financial support for essentials of life, and entrée back into paying work.
In late 2000, a small consortium of comic publishers came up with the idea to create a financial safety net for comic creators, much in the same fashion that exists in almost any other trade from plumbing to pottery. CrossGen Comics donated the time and money to get the extensive legal paperwork rolling, and by March of 2001, the federal government approved ACTOR as a publicly supported not-for-profit corporation under section 501.
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