And again, I love it. This time in "Informeren", a magazine for employees of an organization for regional, academic and forensic mental healthcare, no less. I'm in good company there, not only do they recycle my NRC illustration, but also the NRC "Fokke en Sukke" cartoons. About the two world-infamous ducks "Fucky and Sucky". (I warned you before about the language used in this upscale newspaper.)
A couple of days ago a discussion about second use on the illustrators' mailinglist. About how much to charge for second use. Most illustrators seem to get about 50% of the original price. And so do I. One of my collegues said he charges more for second than for first use, up to 300%! Because the second client doesn't bear any risks, he knows what he's getting. I find that strange. Apparently hiring him as an illustrator is a risky business. And according to his reasoning anything custom made should be cheaper than off-the-shelf products, interesting. Of course this is talking about illustrations made to accompany textual content, not complete books sold to a second publisher or things like that, these could be different stories all together.
Today, April 7, is the birthday of my kindergarten friend Dorie Meijer. So strange, how you just never seem to forget certain things. Like I also still remember our first telephone number ever: 24487. I bet even Eindhoven telephone numbers grew a couple of digits meanwhile. What irrelevant ballast do you carry around in your head?
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