March 16, 2009
Wait… They’re Doing What Again?
You know what story makes little to no sense to me now that I've had a chance to think it over?
Wizard moving its offices into New York City to merge with a sales office they maintain there. While on the surface this makes sense in terms of what one would assume is a natural desire to have a magazine near the people they cover, and it seems possible because of how many folks in the various creative departments that have been dismissed from or left the company over the last two years or so, there seems like there should be a bit more to it than an "everyone stand over here now" declaration.
The basic problem for me is that magazines that cover industries that make physical goods don't just use cubicle space -- not that the cubicle space needs are insignificant -- they have libraries and in some cases do some minor warehousing. I asked a former Wizard Entertainment employee to describe how some of the current space in Congers was used in terms of housing material, or at least how it was done back when they were employed by the company. This was how they responded:
"The comics library is the size of a reasonably-sized kitchen, lined floor to ceiling with longbox and TPB shelves. and the floors are always probably covered two or three unsorted longboxes deep from one end to the other. It's a lot of material. It's surprisingly comprehensive, too.
"The toy library strikes me as being about roughly the same size, and they've got everything in there.
"The photo pit's pretty big, filled with props, and of course the space and equipment to shoot them. It's in the warehouse area.
"The manga library is basically a series of maybe eight bookshelves stacked with manga. There's a DVD/anime library too that's I think six locked cabinets' worth of stuff."
That seems like a lot of material to me. Wizard may have cut down on staff to the point where a move of this sort makes sense, but moving a magazine isn't just about telling people to show up at a new address. I suspect there may be more to come here.
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