onthewall.com.au

Greetings creative peoples looking for an agent.

By reading this page you've signed over all copyright in everything you've ever made since the beginning of time ... mwah ha ha ha!

Of course you haven't really but there are contract terms you will encounter that are fairly close to this and that is one of the small reasons an agent can be useful.

So, if you're looking for representation, email me a link to your online portfolio: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

If you don't have one, email me a pdf portfolio.

If you don't have one, carve it into oak and ship it to me.

If you can't do that, transform your work into intrepretive dance and begin giving performances and I'm sure I'll hear about you eventually.

When you email or carve, let me know a bit about you. Do you already have a client list? What professional background do you have? Do you think it is really strange that the Smurfs used the word "smurf" as a verb?

What On The Wall can do for you:

Produce merchandise (t-shirts, prints, greeting cards, books, etc) from your art and pay you a decent royalty from them

Promote your work

Find you freelance jobs

Crush your opposition mercilessly

License your work  (Don't sell off your intellectual property for next to nothing. Once you sell copyright then you've lost all rights to that work for the rest of time. Now if you're illustrating a logo for some business then who cares right? Of course later they turn out to be Nike ...)

Take your art and illustration to new places. (Can we take a character and make them into a bar of soap? Can we print it on pajamas and start selling them?)

Give you an amazing home-made pizza base recipe

Provide career advice

Move your website up the search engine rankings

Develop intellectual property

Ze cost?

15% commission on freelance and licensing work. This means if a job is worth $5000 then I earn $750 and you earn $4250. If you take $1.60 per t-shirt in royalties, I earn 24 cents per t-shirt. For foreign rights sales (where I may have to engage a foreign agent) the rate may rise to 30% because they will need to be paid.

For On The Wall produced merchandise (prints, t-shirts, sticker books, etc) we split the profit, 60% for you, 40% for the company. If a print makes $16 profit then you take $9.60 and On The Wall takes $6.40, for example.

No other fees

A commission on earnings is the only money I will ever charge. This means no reading fees, editing fees, printing fees, sandwich fees, transport fees ... no fees of any kind will be charged. Agents that charge such fees are not really agents; they're scam artists in disguise. Money flows to the client, not the other way around.

Agency clause

Contracts will include an agency clause. This means earnings will be paid to the agency, commission deducted and then paid to the client within seven days. As your representative I can arrange deals and offers and negotiate terms on your behalf but only you will have the authority to make agreements and ultimately sign contracts. You will have final authority to accept or reject offers made to you. This means I cannot sign any contracts on your behalf under any circumstances.

No binding agency contract

You can leave the agency at any time by giving notice in writing via email (or snail mail if you prefer). The agency will still have rights to commission on contracts which the agency negotiated. This means, for example, if a publishing contract were in force for five more years, the agency would collect and administrator royalties for that period.

What happens next?

Should I wish to represent you and you choose to accept my offer, I'll provide you with a document setting out the details of our agreement, including terms and commissions, written in plain English.

If you have any questions send them along to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

cheers,

Mat