Middle name

I knew it. He's a cat. American shorthair, if I had to hazard a guess.

Thanks to that awesome person named Patrick (Emerson), we now have Michael's middle name:

Richard.

Patrick, if you read this, I told you over pm that you are just awesome. Now, I am just reiterating it.

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Oh, no. He does come to the board. I do see him around.

It must be in the morning, then. I thought he'd have gotten bored with reading our "I love Michael" posts.

I understand your sentiments. Having witnessed firsthand how newspapers handle freelance work, this is how I've seen how it works: although it's not treated like trash, it's sometimes not always cherished as it should be. Unless the artist is well known or very savvy, it would be a virtual certainty that the paper would own the copyrights on it. From a company standpoint it gives them control of what they publish. Most writers don't like to think of it but they don't own the story published in a newspaper or magazine. The publisher does. It is rare for publishers to accept llmitations on publication and copyrights for freelance work. The artist or writer has to be quite well established to exact that kind of leverage.

As a matter of policy most publishers don't sell prints of photos or artwork etc. unless it was published in their own editions. So for instance they might contract with an artist to do a multitude of illustrations but only publish one. They would keep all the illustrations as work product and if they sold prints it would be of the one they published.

Now that Michael has achieved some fame, they might be encouraged to search their archives, assuming that he sold the works to them. If he retained the copyright on them, then he was a very smart guy (which we know he is) but often times struggling artists don't have that option. I worked for several years as an artist, but gave it up. It's a brutal existence, and I'm not cut out for that kind of lifestyle with such little return on a lot effort.

In any case, I'm hoping we get see a few examples either from his own collection if fans can persuade him or his publishers to pull his work from their collections or archives.

exactly mythicfeline, i agree with everything you just said lol

anyways, Michael Richard Emerson!! sound's brilliant
just hearing Michael's voice saying "Richard" when he's Ben . It sounds good ;D