Mark McGuinness, a photographer, said the income from Ireland’s government allowed him to devote two days a week to making work for exhibitions.Credit…Ellius Grace for The New York Times Ian Fay had toiled for years to make it as a comic book artist and illustrator, and last fall, he was ready to call it a day.
Fay, 32, who lives in Kilkenny in southern Ireland and specializes in drawing muscly superheroes , was only earning enough money to pay his bills, he recalled recently. He couldn’t afford vacations. He was considering boxing up his art supplies and getting a job […]
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