Eddie Berganza Named Executive Editor At DC Comics; Other Positions Settled

The hobby business news and analysis site ICv2.com has the most succinct and to-the-point write-up of the DC Comics editorial moves announced yesterday via a note from Editor-In-Chief Bob Harras on the DC Comics blog The Source.

Three things occur to me right away. First, the Eddie Berganza part of the story strikes me as a particularly nice thing in that I believe Berganza started in a menial position at DC years and years ago and has since worked his way inexorably upward, Roger Goodell-style (only without Goodell's super well-connected family), to finally achieving a position of much influence and reward within the DC Comics comics publishing arm. Good for him, and kudos to everyone for whom yesterday's announcement signified a personal career highlight. Second, the fact that the announcements included simple reiterations of currently-known assignments (the Vertigo and MAD heads) in addition to the new ones really emphasizes that it's Harras putting his stamp on the company as opposed to this being a slew of staffing changes generated solely from the corporation's needs. I think that stuff matters in certain ways. Third, this is more hiring from within, which is a policy direction I don't think anyone expected to change with these positions, but I think it puts some pressure on everyone involved for the kind of results down the line that justify a kind of doubling-down on current personnel.
 
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