manga - MSU Dept of History

The album system of bande dessinée publication prospered because:1. Creators were paid both for their serialized work appearing in periodicals as well asroyalties from the album reprints - it became possible to make a living being a creator2. Copyright laws protected a creator’s ownership of a character or a strip, so theagreement to have a publisher print (or reprint) a strip was not tantamount tosurrendering ownership of the IP3. Because a creator could make their living at their profession and they were always linkedto their creation, fame and notoriety began to emerge around the most talented creators39