These were subsequently bought and taken over by UCI. In 1995, AMC pioneered the first North American megaplex, a theater that can accommodate thousands, when it opened the AMC Grand 24 in Dallas, Texas â the first megaplex in the world had been built by European chain Kinepolis in 1988.
Average Salary. Artists in the Fine Arts sector earn an average annual salary of $57,400, or $27.60 an hour according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). This average includes illustrators in the newspaper, periodical, book and directory publishing industry.
Pay Range. In 2008, Sean Jordan, founder of Army Ant Publishing, claimed established freelance comic book artists were paid anywhere from $220 to $4,400 per book project, which breaks down to $10 to $200 per page.Pencil and inker artists can ask for $75 to $200 a page.eb comic pay for pencil and inkster artists ranges from $10 to $120 per page. In 2008, the Bureau of Labor Statistics claimed full-time comic artists and cartoonists made about $30,000 a year. That figure is hard to apply to individuals since it does not take into account that the industry pays per project.