When Writers Turn on Each Other & It Happened At Spongebob
Craig Mazin, aka The Artful Writer, is getting pummeled on his on blog by Patrick Meighan, a Family Guy writer who thinks Mazin should walk off the set of the film he’s directing. Writer-directors have two union contracts to honor, writer-producers only one.
Family Guy, incidently, is one of the few animated series with a WGA contract. Micah Wright’s post on Writer Action explains in great detail what happened when Nichelodeon writers tried to go union:
I came to this guild having had a “successful” career writing Animation for $1400/week for five years.
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