I worked as an editorial intern at Dark Horse Comics in Milwaukie, Oregon, during PSU’s winter term this year, and while I was there, I ended up learning more than I ever anticipated. In my previous post on my time at the Dark Horse offices, I focused on explaining DHDPs and work orders. In this entry, I’ll continue my detailed look into what exactly a comics editor does, and I’ll focus on two more editorial tasks: creating bookmaps and comp lists.
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Editing at Dark Horse Comics
By Justin M. Knipper
I recently spent three months as an Editorial Intern at Dark Horse Comics in Milwaukie, OR earlier this year—here’s a bit of what I learned while interning there.
Traditional Editing vs. Comics Editing
By Allyson Yenerall @amy3392
Although editing might seem straightforward, there is a greater difference between traditional editing done for novels and written work than editing for comics than one might think.
Editing Comics With Oni Press’s Desiree Wilson
By Justin Knipper
There are a load of micro-reasons that comics need editors, but they all boil down to the same thing in the end. It’s the same as editing anything else: quality, timeliness, and clarity. Like any form of writing or art, it’s hard to see the flaws of something you’ve made without a pair of outside eyes, but I think comics have a way of making that even harder. It’s not just missing a serial comma or using the wrong stylesheet. It’s making sure that not just one person–the writer–knows the story and expresses it well enough that a reader knows what’s going on. All the pieces of the puzzle have to fit together almost flawlessly, and if they don’t you will almost always end up confusing someone or losing an emotional beat.
#VisibleWomen
By Elizabeth Hughes @elizabig
The digital world has opened us all up to a lot of professional advantages, in terms of showcasing skills and networking with other creators. We now have personal websites and portfolios and LinkedIn accounts that may or may not be frequently checked. However, time and time again one of the most informal sites ends up being the most useful for creators: Twitter. It’s already well-known that professionally branding yourself on Twitter can be helpful, but 2016 saw a new trend emerging in how Twitter can be used to uplift minority creators.
Tablets and eReaders and Motion Books, Oh My!
By Maeko Bradshaw makosharkattack
The written word in the form of a physical book became popular with Gutenberg’s invention of moveable type. eReaders first picked up steam with the release of the Sony Reader in 2006 followed by the Amazon Kindle in 2007. The latest and greatest reading technology is motion books, presented by Madefire and the Madefire app. […]