The following is a true story which occurred in a drawer in my city, which I hope will not happen again, so is also a warning to all the artists who get commissions and a call to the conscience of the people who are not able to admire not adequately compensate art work well done.
The day January 5, 2008, Miguel Lundin Peredo (owner of the blogs "venenolundico" and "realism lundico" (which fails links below) resident in Sweden. Contact Bolivian cartoonist Mauricio Sejas by user "evilself" DeviantArt gallery. In order to instruct and work in black and white 4 characters furries for publication "Tiwanaku furries.''This work was presented at the dated 25 month, although the payment was made on 28 June, or 6 months after delivery work.
Although the payment was then made greater because of the delay, Miguel then again contacted Mr. Mauricio on several occasions to commission more work from that date until April 15, 2009. Realiazando orders of several characters, which gave the description. The agreed price for each picture was 100 Bs Even in full color drawings, there was a reduction due to the amount of commissions.
at the date of April 19, Miguel requested the sending of these pictures, although the artist has admitted took a while to deliver them, says that Michael did not seem in a hurry, but such work does were delivered. After asking for continuous work during the stay in Mauritius, in the city of La Paz (which dates did not have a good machine available, but learned to manage to meet), finally surrendering a total of 21 works of superheroes and a shield as a gift to his brother, 100 Bs each. a total of 2100 Bs in total.
Once submitted, all drawings, Mauritius repeatedly attempted to collect shell is because by that time it was entitled to a scholarship to attend other fellows to conduct more workshops in the "Animation Workshop" (Vivorg, Denmark ) animated short film "Grandma Grillo" and desperately needed the money to afford many things for this trip (paperwork, handling, etc). Maurice went to Denmark as of June 6, 2009, having received news of the payment.
During his stay in Europe, Mauritius continued to insist for payment, receiving even the suggestion that Michael was going to pick it up Sweden, which is not suited him to Mauritius, as the passenger had a higher price the debt itself.
later dates even told me that Michael and did not take an interest in answering mail sent, even feared a change of mind. Although Thanks to Facebook, could be contacted again with this person to continue insisting on the payment. Michael has sometimes complained of the "ridiculous" that is leaving messages on your wall, but the truth is he was the only means by which contact was possible, although it had to insist repeatedly and leave messages.
Mauricio After having returned to Bolivia in December 2009, Miguel, apparently did not understand (or would not understand) that Mauritius and not in Europe (although it had cleared several times) and still talking to send the payment there, trying to make the story of a turn and it seems that Mauritius was who would not let anyone contact. Or insist on sending an invoice before paying, which not only was not granted before, but requires a whole process of getting a Nit record for billing. And other excuses going around the issue. It also left an email account belonging to his mother as he said, to discuss the payment, which were not answered so many times he insisted that Mauritius will provide at least a phone number to contact.
At the insistence of Mauritius, Miguel also said he did not make the payment because of illness or other similar excuses. Personally I can not confirm or deny that. But neither had note that Mauritius had also need to pay for its own problems, that he were repeated in the wall on facebook.
A one-year debt, Miguel asked for a further period of 5 weeks for payment, that period was accepted. Arrival deadline, there was no news yet of payment and had to insist a week.
On Saturday June 12, 2010, Mauritius received a note on your facebook wall, Miguel's mother telling him to call to discuss the debt and giving a phone number in Sweden (yes .... it has had to call to Sweden).
On Sunday June 13, Mauritius has informed me that after calling this lady, she said I should go to the home of a relative to receive payment of 200 dollars (which is not covered full amount), and to complain about this and even ask for payment of 250, Mauritius has only received reprimands and insults to their work by the said lady who would have said no plan to pay more than that, "just wants to finish this conflict with his son once, "and she" are worth the fucking cartoons. "
Day June 14, Mauritius has been a relative's house above, who only has paid the $ 200 mentioned.
To date, the ratio of dollar-Boliviano is:
Sale: $ 1 = BS7, 07
Purchase: $ 1 = BS6, 97
Hagan relationship.
I also received information (from a confidential source) on that other artists who have had the same touch with this person, who to date have not received payment and tired of insisting to no avail, have resigned to pay, which now not only unfair but to outright by Miguel.
As outrageous as the fact of the debt, is the fact that in the end not only did not receive the agreed payment but above all insult your art that much is not just a hobby, but a whole way of life.
write this story not only to reclaim and make known the fact occurred, but also to warn other artists and designers to not suffer the same scam (whether by that person or others) and remind the general public, that cartoonists, like any other workers, deserve recognition and respect for our work.
I hope the message has arrived.
With "love":
Nathaliel
leave the links here some of the pictures above.
http://lundico.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html
http://lundico.blogspot.com/2009_03_01_archive.html
http://lundico.blogspot.com/2008/02/tiwanaku-furries.html
also stress the fact that in this blog, never gave the credit to people to draw for him, neither a name nor a mention.
thank those who have taken the trouble to read this story.
hope soon to publish the same in other languages, so I'm in search of people to help me with translations.
Also I have to my "reporter" working on gathering more information about it (if you fail to hack around ¬ ¬), so other witnesses, are also welcome.
Any input, information, etc. the subject, do not forget me at: nathaliel_jc@hotmail.com
As you can see, I made a general makeover. A facelift. On the other hand, I have embedded access to my tweets from Twitter 
