Surviving Creativity — a podcast I record with Scott Kurtz and Toonhound Studios business manager, Cory Casoni — is back for our second season. We kicked off the new year tackling all sorts of issues.

We talk about celebrating New Years, celebrating women in comics — specifically in Angoulême, but also in Star Wars merchandise — fair page rates, and our predictions for 2016.

Cory brought up something I want to make sure to mention here. We’ve discussed FairPageRates.com on the site earlier, and during the podcast the three of us discuss its strengths and weaknesses as a resource. But to truly understand the data being presented on this site (and similar ones), you need to read the post by Katie Lane on Work Made For Hire. It does an excellent job of explaining why it’s not so easy to compare, for example, Oni Press to Image Comics, when we’re discussing page rates.