[t-writescode]

Where do you get $100-1000 in cost for a major publication? The artists I know easily charge in that range, and that's for private commissions that they retain the rights over.

I could not imagine the custom work done that helps sell publications, *especially MTG or similar* only net $1000 per piece. Certainly they have some sort of royalties contract, at the very least.

[yuzuquat]

This is pretty anecdotal (6 years back) but I've had one professor tell me they were paid $800 for a NYT illustration and $400 for a smaller publication. I might be off with the specific numbers but these are the general ballpark numbers I remember. Nothing about MTG, etc that I can give concrete numbers for.