Two Quick Industry Job Notes

* I saw this the day that it appears, but somehow failed to mention that David Hyde -- at DC Comics for about a decade and at traditional book publishing before that -- has opened an LA-based independent publicity and marketing firm and already has a handful of clients including authors from IDW and D+Q. My memory is that I had a good relationship with David as much as my occasionally being a hectoring asshole allows for a good relationship, and I wish him the best. I've always wondered why there aren't a few more people like this, folks set up as independent players and serving comics clients across an array of companies. I remember in the 1990s suggesting to a college friend that was at one of the agencies that they just scoop up massive numbers of cartoonist clients, for example. It seems like there's some room to maneuver there. I suppose the answer is that it's hard to make the money work. I'll be interested to see how this goes.

* Heidi MacDonald caught that Marvel editor Lauren Sankovitch has quit that company and moved to the west coast for as yet-to-be-announced opportunity. I got the impression she was very well-liked there, and I seem to remember some of the creators making sure she had a place at the company as best as they could a definite priority. It's fairly common for young, skilled, media-company talent to make a move from one company to another still fairly early in their careers. I wish her the best.
 
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