Despite being a relatively new creation, having debuted in 2011 from artist\u00a0Sara Pichelli and writer Brian Michael Bendis, Miles Morales has become an integral part of the Marvel Universe. He has his own comic book and is the center piece of Sony’s animated hits, 2018’s Into the Spider-Verse and 2023’s Across the Spider-Verse, which have grossed a combined total of over $1 billion. He is also one of the stars of Insomniac’s Spider-Man video game franchise, which has been a massive hit for Sony and PlayStation.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, the character’s financial success has not been shared with at least one of his co-creators. Sara Pichelli attended CCXP 2025 in S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil, where she gave an interview to Brazilian outlet Jamesons<\/a> (interview translated by X’s translator). Jamesons asked asked her if she received a share of the profits generated by media starring her creation. Pichelli revealed she doesn’t: “If only! Don’t even mention it…\u00a0I would be a billionaire.”<\/p>\n When the outlet state she should be compensated, the artist responded she agreed: “Yeah, but I don’t get anything. And that’s the saddest part of my life.\u00a0Jamesons stated it was unbelievable, to which she said: “I know, I can’t believe it myself.”\u00a0When an online campaign was suggested, Pichelli agreed: “Please, do it!”\u00a0The outlet stated there should be one, given all the media Miles has starred in. Pichelli agreed once again, saying: “Yeah, it’s insane. I [know].”<\/p>\n Compensation for characters has long been a point of contention between creatives and comic book companies. In 2021, The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> published a report on the matter, detailing the struggles artists and writers experienced to be fairly compensated for their creators. Some of the ones mentioned were\u00a0Jerry Siegel & Joe Shuster for Superman, Jim Starlin for Thanos, and Len Wein for Wolverine.\u00a0<\/p>\n The issue is so prevalent, that other star writers for Marvel and DC have spoken out about the matter. They include\u00a0Winter Solider co-creator\u00a0Ed Brubaker\u2014who opened up<\/a> about his low compensation for Bucky’s MCU role\u2014and Black Panther writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. While speaking to Polygon<\/a>\u00a0in 2021,\u00a0Coates spoke about the struggles many creatives in the comics industry face when it comes to being fairly\u00a0rewarded for their work:<\/p>\n “I’m not talking about myself here, because I feel like I’m somebody who is fortunate in the sense that I\u2019ve been able to make a living in all kinds of other ways. But there are people who make their living off of comic books. And I wish that Marvel found better ways to compensate the creators who helped make Black Panther Black Panther. I wish that they found better ways to compensate the folks who made Captain America Captain America.\u00a0<\/p>\n I’m talking very specifically here, I wish they found ways to compensate the author of the greatest Winter Soldier stories that you’re ever going to read. I don’t love that there’s a Falcon and Winter Soldier show on TV and I’m hearing from Ed [Brubaker] that he can’t even get in contact with… I just don’t love that. […] Look, I had a great time. I had a tremendous, tremendous time writing for Marvel. I am indebted to Marvel. […] The corporate side of this, though […]\u00a0the corporate side of this is not pretty. It’s not pretty at all. How you treat people who create the basis for this, I don’t love it.”<\/p>\n Venom co-creator Todd McFarlane also spoke about the issue to THR, stating:\u00a0<\/p>\n “You are paying the original creators crumbs. The first person who says, ‘We’re going to pay three times crumbs,’\u00a0is going to look like a genius, and have a flood of talent coming in your direction.”\u00a0He further stated he was in the process of creating a contract for future creators in his planned Spawn universe\u00a0that would, “address that in a much more significant way.”<\/p>\n Miles Morales will return to theaters with Spider-Man: Beyond the Spider-Verse on June 18, 2027.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite being a relatively new creation, having debuted in 2011 from artist\u00a0Sara Pichelli and writer Brian Michael Bendis,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[98000,93,61,97999,60,2563,41738,97997,270,97998,32950,16686],"class_list":{"0":"post-179884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-across-the-spider-verse","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-into-the-spider-verse","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-marvel","14":"tag-marvel-comics","15":"tag-miles-morales","16":"tag-movies","17":"tag-sara-pichelli","18":"tag-spider-man","19":"tag-superheroes"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}