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March 8th, 2004 - Rick Veitch on Constantine Royalties Taken from Comicon Thanks to Adrian Brown for the pointer. "Neil's got it right. Alan had decided to wash his hands of Hollywood because of the LOEG lawsuit. CONSTANTINE just happened to be the first project to fall in his lap after that. I end up being the biggest beneficiery of his decision about passing his royalties to the co-creators. The history of the creator credits are a bit convaluted, but I'll try to explain it: John and Steve originally came up with the idea of adding a character to SWAMP THING who looked like Sting and pitched it to Alan. He took that and created the trench-coated, Silk Cut smoking Constantine for ST #37, which I ended up drawing as a fill in. All I really added to Alan's incredibly detailed description was the ear ring (although if I'd made JC look like Elvis Costello the world might have been a different place, eh?). When HELLBLAZER was launched, DC was just in the beginning stages of offering creator participation. At that time, Alan gave his percentage to Jaimie Delano and John Ridgeway and I stepped aside for Steve and John Totleben. Each of those guys got 5%. Somehow, in some later deal (which Alan tells me he doesn't even remember happening), DC gave Alan another ten percent. Alan has disbursed this 10% by passing 6% to me and 1% each to John T, Steve, Jaimie and John R. So we each end up with 6%. If there are creator credits I probably won't be on them (and from the look of the stills I've seen that's no great loss)." - Rick Veitch on Constantine Royalties. And yes, Alan is an exrtaordinary individual! <<< Back To Index.