Once the document was signed, the lawsuit claims that Kirkman continued to pay Crabtree for comic sales, as well as licensing by MTV for an animated series and Paramount Pictures for a film and TV option.īut when Invincible was picked up by Amazon Studios, Crabtree claims that Kirkman refused his claims for compensation. “Kirkman falsely told Crabtree that Crabtree’s rights and financial interest in the Work would remain unchanged if he signed the Certificate of Authorship and that the document would simply allow Kirkman to market the licensure of the Work more easily, resulting in greater profits for both of them,” reads the lawsuit. He claims that Kirkman persuaded him by stating that Invincible would be more saleable to studios if it came from a single creator. Crabtree claims that he had an oral agreement with Kirkman that granted him 20 percent of single sale proceeds for Invincible, as well as 10 percent of any revenue from “other film or television commercial exploitation of the Work together with any derivative projects based on the Work and any allied or ancillary rights in the Work.”Įssentially, this means that Crabtree would have missed out on a large paycheck when Invincible was turned into an animated series.Īs for why this agreement was never written down, Crabtree alleges that Kirkman convinced him to sign over his rights with a “Certificate of Authorship” while at San Diego Comic Con in 2005.
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