NY Press profiles Dean Haspiel

The New York Press has a somewhat depressing (at least to aspiring artists) feature up on Dean Haspiel (The Quitter):

Comics are uniquely suited to break a spirit. They’re lower paying and more labor intensive than any other form of illustration. Even top franchise artists get only $300 for each hand-cramping page. (The Times pays up to $800 for a tiny black and white spot illustration.) For those who do xeroxed zines, go into debt self-publishing books, and maybe, if they’re lucky, sell a finished graphic novel to Fantagraphics, comics is a route to the poorhouse.

Read more about Dean at his website.