Comic Book Jobs: DC Comics Digital Marketing

Comic book marketing is a lot of fun - you get to see and hear about tons of stuff long before anyone else is aware of it, and you get to hang with editors and other creative types, and if you’re lucky you get that expenses-paid trip to San Diego for CCI each year. Or was that just me?

DC Comics - referred to in the listing as DC Entertainment - is looking for a Marketing Representative for Sales, Marketing & Business Development for their New York office.

You’ll get to write digital solicitation copy via coordinating with DC’s west coast office, support the Marketing Manager “in the planning and implementing of all digital marketing initiatives,” make sure the Online Department is promoting the right stuff on the right websites and “social networking sites,” and a bunch of other digital marketing strategies and initiatives.

Why the digital marketing office is in New York while the entire digital department is in Burbank is one of corporate life’s mysteries that you may eventually figure out on your own. But a really smart person could figure out a way to rack up the now-almost-useless frequent flier miles.

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Victorian Undead: Sherlock Holmes Vs. Zombies!

Everyone who knows me knows that I love the comics that are out there on the fringes of the industry. You want to make everyone turn into apes or zombies or contestants on So You Think You Can Dance? and I’m right there, eager to throw my $2.99 in your direction.

So when I saw Tony Moore’s “iconic” cover on Victorian Undead #1 (Wildstorm) on the rack with a blurb that says “Sherlock Holmes Vs. Zombies,” my hand shot out faster than John H. Watson, M.D.’s revolver. And I wasn’t disappointed. Far from being as “out there” as its B-movie subject matter might suggest, it actually feels like a real Sherlock Holmes adventure but with, y’know zombies. And Automata (aka robots). Following a celestial event in the skies of London in 1854, there are rumors of the dead coming back to life and desecration of the bodies by beheading. By 1898, when two London workmen succumb to zombiness, leaving one in the custody of Inspector Lestrade, the call goes out for Sherlock Holmes who’s busy on a seemingly separate case trying to figure out who’s behind the robot that just tried to kill him. (I’ve read stories where Holmes has gone up against the aliens from War of the Worlds, and also Dracula, Jack The Ripper and The Invisible Man, so zombies and Victorian robots don’t feel out of place in my personal Holmes canon.)

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