Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,
If you’re one of the many looking for work via Craigslist, you can bet they have something similar to work posted there.
Let’s take a look!
A micro-budget film that appears to be based on Gilbert Hernandez’s Luba stories from Love & Rockets is looking for their very own Luba. I think there are only a couple of requirements.
In Los Angeles, Planet Bravo is looking for teachers for their UCLA Lab in Westwood. It’s for a kids’ afterschool program and you can create your own course (past courses have included Comic Book Creation). And it’s a paid gig!
In Vancouver, there’s a guy - and you know it’s a guy - looking for an artist who’s willing to draw 17 “hot girls” in comic book style.
Good luck, job seekers!
[Artwork: Luba, © Gilbert Hernandez]
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Comic Books Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Conventions, Editorials, Movies,
If you have the gift of retail, draw fast, love to intern or want to sell some of your stuff, Craigslist has quite the deals for you.
In Boston, The Million Year Picnic comic book store in Harvard Square has “immediate openings for part-time employment.”
If you have “retail, customer service or sales experience” that’d be a huge plus.
A knowledge of comic books and graphic novels is helpful “but not required. You do have to be able to show up for work every Wednesday morning because that’s new comic day.
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Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,
Teachers, interns, extras don’t sound like comic book jobs, and yet here they are. Let’s take a look at some Los Angeles-based opportunities.
Think Now Education is looking for part-time teachers for “after school programs” in the Inglewood Unified School District in Los Angeles. One of the classes you could be teaching? Reading Graphic Novels. Another one? Making Comic Books.
A Los Angeles-based comic book publisher “in the mid-Wilshire district” is looking for an unpaid intern for their design department. Got to love comics, designs that pop and creating excellent book jackets. No pay, except the usual college credit.
A movie based on an “Action Comic Book” needs extras of all types, ages and ethnicities for an L.A.-based shoot for scenes in a baseball stadium, airport, and subway. There is pay, they say!
Good luck, Craigslist job seekers!
[Artwork: The Rough Guide to Graphic Novels by Danny Fingeroth)
Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Conventions, Editorials,
There are several odd jobs up on Craigslist this week. Let’s take a look.
If you can translate Korean into English, there’s a comic book company in Queens, NY that would like to hear from you. They’re paying by the book.
If you don't have any second language skills, maybe you’re good with a needle and thread? Strictly Underground is a Chicago-based comic book company and they want a costume made for their superheroine Prodigy. They’ve already got the gorgeous model lined up - you just have to dress her up so she can parade around town.
A local business in Long Beach is looking for some female cosplayers - and the ad says you only have to be “moderately attractive” - to pass out fliers near the convention center during the Long Beach Comic Con. You have to provide your own costume, though.
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Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,
As regular readers know, I’m a lover of Craigslist and its many opportunities that sound just like employment. Here are a few recent ones:
Are you an actor who can play “normal” in a superhero world? Mild Mannered is a new live action superhero web series, and they’re casting. “Mild Mannered is a story about a group of normal people attempting to live their lives in the midst of a fantastical comic book world as best they can.”
If you’d like to pursue your acting career on the other coast, there’s a company looking for a male actor to star in a “fantasy website catering to comic book fans.” You’ll be “acting out comic book style stories while dressed in super hero/villain costumes.” But your face’ll be covered up in case you want to keep your involvement a secret. There’s no nudity, but it’s “a very active role where there will be simulated fighting/wrestling choreography” and some “implied sensuality and simulated fighting/wrestling,” during the one day six-hour shoot.
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Comic Book Jobs: Booth Babes & Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Conventions, Editorials,
I make no secret of my love for Craigslist. Even with the loss of their adult services ads, it’s still a fun place to “shop” for career opportunities. Let’s see what’s out there:
Like to dress up? Getting ready to work on your Halloween costume for 2010? Don’t start yet, especially if you’re an inshape hottie. If you’re smart about it, you might be able to turn this year’s costume into a moneymaker for you.
For their 20th anniversary, a comic book store in Astoria, Queens, is looking for a “Lady Super Hero” who is “fit, friendly” and can provide her own costume.
The guy - and you just know it’s a guy - who’s in charge of the “lovely lady talent” says it’s a one-day only, five-hour shift from 3-8 PM and your duties will include: “Meet and greet customers, posing for pictures with customers if they have their own cameras, handing out fliers outside the store and be very nice and somewhat flirty to all customers.”
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Al Gordon’s Comic Book Workshop
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Image Comics,
Taking a look around the Craigslist lately, I discovered not a job, but an opportunity. My old pal Al Gordon - a most excellent inker of comics and a fine comic book penciler in his own right, and a Harvey, Eisner and CBG award winner - is offering his comic book workshop.
Of course, it’s in San Francisco because that’s where Al is, but if you can make it there, it’s sure to be worth the trip. Al’s been doing his workshop since 2004, so there’s probably more than a few things you can learn about making comics, making art, making a living and having a career in funnybooks and its related offspring.
According to Al, “If you’re an accomplished ‘creator’ or just a frantic fan of this mind-melting medium and would love to produce your own comics, this is the workshop for you.”
Al promises to teach each class the “craft of producing a comic book, from start to finish” with the goal of creating “a comic book of any style and take it from scratch to a print-ready comic book yarn.”
It’s four classes a month, details and cool stuff at Al’s website.
[Artwork: Cover to Image Comics’ Wildstar by Jerry Ordway and Al Gordon, © Jerry Ordway and Al Gordon]
Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials, Movies, Television, Video Games, Marvel Comics,
I love checking out Craigslist. It’s like channel-surfing with classified ads. You can always find interesting things, and before you know it, several hours of your day have vanished. Let’s see what comic book jobs are out there:
In New York, A.P.N.G. Enterprises has a “bold comic book series” called New-Gen, which they’re rolling out “for multiple platforms including movies, TV, video games and of course more comics, distributed by Marvel.”
And they need a couple of interns for three-months, rewarded with college credit. Specifically, they want “people who know and have a passion for comic books and science fiction to help us get the word out about the world of New-Gen.”
If you’re up on the social media apps, and aren’t afraid to go old-school by handing out fliers or working their booth at the New York Comic Con in October, poke your resume over there.
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Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Editorials,
I love the craigslist when it comes to job-hunting. There’s always something off-the-beaten path that can be discovered. Maybe it’s a job you’ve never thought of, or somebody just looking for someone to finish their book (“it’s all written, I just need someone to add in the characters and the plot and the structure”), but one thing’s for sure: it’s rarely a dull surfing experience.
Take this job, for example. Do you like to dress up? Do you understand the rules of cosplay for cash? There’s a company looking for “a superhero comic book character to represent our character for our company: think the Verizon guy, think Ronald McDonald, think Jack from Jack In The Box.”
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Comic Book Jobs: Checking Out Craigslist
Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Conventions, Editorials,
I find Craigslist very entertaining and amusing. I love what people post over there, especially in the jobs section. A lot of people seem to want others to do their work for them for very little money. Shocking!
But still, there are occasional jobs that are comic book-related, and only a few of them want to see your naked bits, so let’s take a look:
Super Earth: A self-proclaimed yet unnamed “renewable energy company” is looking for a petite actor will to dress up as Super Earth to perform at various street festivals and functions around New York City.
Partial Nudity: I’m sure this opportunity has passed since Comic Con is mere hours away by now, but it was a chance to appear naked in a Dark Knight Returns fan film. You’d have to be under 5’4”, blond and be willing to show off some of your Robin-like skin.
Female Models: Another unnamed company is interested in some comic book-style models for a coffee table art book to debut at San Diego’s Comic Con International in 2011. Naturally, they want some partial nudity too, but they’re willing to pay for a peek at your parts.
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