A few weeks ago, fed up with the fact that Surface is now six months behind in paying us (sorry, guys, it’s public shaming time) while CITY took a good five months to get around to cutting a check for our last column, annoyed that editors treat paying us like a favor—if we hear the “oh yeah… sorry, it’s such a drag, we’re so slow” one more time, we’re gonna start dragging our feet on, you know, writing and filing words (it’s such a pain we know, yeah, mkaaaay)—and generally outraged at the treatment we and our fellows have received, we asked for a little more bitchslapping to make the uninsured world go around.

And then, of course, Gawker stole our thunder. So, now, we’ll borrow their results, helpfully laid out in a nifty little Rachel Harrison-style pink (to make it pretty!) chart. The takeaway? The Brooklyn Paper is by far the worst offender with Michael Klug’s Whitewall coming in a close second. Given what we’ve heard about Whitewall—that they tried to negotiate a freelancer’s rate down after accepting the story for publication, claiming general poverty and craptasticness—we’re unsurprised that they are more than 350 days (that’s almost a year, just to drive the point home) overdue. Three non-design magazines down the rung and Surface checks in with an average lag of about nine months, which makes our 180-day (that’s after the contractual 90) wait seem like a walk in the Spacecraft 2.

Let’s bring it on home. Speaking of print, how’s Print doing? I.D. paying you? What about Record? Architectural Digest still cutting mad checks? Any of the Nasties holding back? Tips(at)edificial(dot)com or commentate that justified anger. Let’s get these guys feeling a little less like God, and a little more like Martin.

Pay It Forward (Or at All) [Edificial]
Print’s Ten Worst Late Payment Offenders [Gawker]
Image [Flickr]