Diana Schutz
Encyclopedia
Diana Schutz is a comic book
editor
, most notable as editor in chief
of Comico
during its peak years and for her continuing tenure at Dark Horse Comics
, for whom she has worked since 1990. "She is Frank Miller
's editor on Sin City
and 300, Matt Wagner
's editor on Grendel
, Stan Sakai
's editor on Usagi Yojimbo
, and Paul Chadwick
's editor on Concrete
", and known to her letter-column readers as "Auntie Dydie".
She is also an adjunct instructor of comics history and criticism at Portland Community College
.
's Howard the Duck
a welcome diversion from - if ultimately not a polar opposite to - "Plato
, Bertrand Russell and Immanuel Kant
," she found herself pulled back into the world of comics. Frequenting the comic shop called "The ComicShop" (owned by Ken Witcher and Ron Norton) in Vancouver
, British Columbia
, she ultimately dropped out of graduate Philosophy (with an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing) to move (in 1978) from being one of the ComicShop' s few female customers to being one of its few "counterpeople," where she says she found herself "learn[ing] social skills I never learned in the ivory tower of academia."
Witcher, Norton and The ComicShop swiftly proved able sources for Diana to discover comics including "Barry Windsor-Smith
's "Conan
"; Jim Starlin
's "Captain Marvel
"; Craig Russell
's Killraven
; Dave Sim
's "Cerebus", of which she was "one of the first 2,000 readers to actually buy issue 1." Schutz worked in comics stores for six years, moving from Vancouver to California and from The ComicShop to Comics & Comix in 1981. By 1982, she was making the move from retail towards publishing by means of a "bimonthly, 32-page "newsletter" that [she] put together for Comics & Comix" entitled The Telegraph Wire which was modeled on The Comics Journal
(each issue containing an interview, reviews, news and adverts), and its production swiftly became her role at C&C.
:
In addition to meeting and mingling with publishers, distributors, promotion teams and all manner of creators, Schutz started freelance work for "various other fan publications", including Comics Buyer's Guide
, The Comics Journal
, Amazing Heroes
and Comics Scene, from which she graduated to a very brief - four day - job with Marvel Comics
as an assistant editor.
Recommended by friend Chris Claremont
, Schutz was to be (at age 29) "Ann Nocenti
's assistant editor on the X-Men
", but found herself entering her new job with "unrealistic expectations"; ultimately handing in her notice after a mere four days. Several months later (in 1985), she (and Bob Schreck) began work at Comico
, which "with its opportunities for creator ownership, and the fact that it was much smaller and more personable, was much more [her] style". Having picked up in her brief tenure at Marvel some knowledge "from Virginia Romita how to create and enforce production schedules", Schutz took over as Comico's primary editor. (Schreck oversaw "all the marketing and publishing type aspects".)
's Cerebus, Schutz got to know the man himself, and began working for him as a proofreader, first unofficially, and then officially from the "middle of '94" until early 2001. She explains that she "never proofed the book itself," "[j]ust the text, the typeset text" feeling that her respect for his abilities outweighed any potential "qualms" about the book's often-contentious content.
Schutz's stated stance (which has largely held sway throughout her entire editorial career) is that her role is not to interfere with an artist's story, merely to make sure that their work is "as grammatically clear as it could be." This she did for Sim for several years, balking only when Sim sent her a "boxing challenge to proofread" which she felt was a personal attack on a friend (and one introduced to her by Sim himself). Schutz promptly resigned in January 2001, and Sim even published her resignation letter in Cerebus #265. This issue also included a "20-page anti-female diatribe," and Schutz remains mildly aggravated over this juxtaposition, since she thinks some readers might equate the two - she did not, and found herself having to explain that she had no problem proofreading "an argument, no matter how faulty, in which Dave believes," no matter her personal views, and that she had resigned over the boxing challenge itself from the previous issue, #264. Indeed, even while Schutz was performing proofreading duties, she did so via fax, and had very little - if any - personal contact with Sim himself.
, rising (by 2007) to the position of Executive Editor, having variously held the roles of Senior Editor, Managing Editor, and Editor-in-Chief. In December 2001, she was the fifth-most-senior staff member in terms of length-of-employment (after, respectively, Mike Richardson
, Randy Stradley, Neil Hankerson and Cary Grazzini), but stated that she had originally relinquished the job of Editor-in-Chief in December 1995, after almost two years, "because what it did is it put me in meetings all the damn time, writing memos and holding people's hands and I wasn't able to make good comics anymore".
Concurrent with her move to Oregon, Schutz returned to graduate studies, and in 1994 she received a Master of Arts
degree in Communication Studies
from the University of Portland
, writing her M.A. thesis on female cartoonists Julie Doucet
, Roberta Gregory
, and Aline Kominsky-Crumb
.
found himself without an editor, and called Schutz - the two are friends - in the hopes that she would agree to edit his subsequent work. Initially reluctant, thinking that the professional relationship could jeopardize their friendship, she ultimately agreed to a "trial run of six months," which extended into an editor-writer relationship of several years.
, Schutz instigated the Maverick
imprint
at Dark Horse Comics
which was designed as an umbrella title for a number of creator-owned titles, including some already published by Dark Horse and some new to the publisher. The 'Maverick' name was designed "to provide a kind of identity or specific line for those sorts of individual creator visions." The aim of the "Maverick" line was to "push the medium a little bit," although Schutz recognized that such titles are often a hard sell. To help address this, the Maverick Annual anthologies (published from 2000 as Dark Horse Maverick and later under such subtitles as Happy Endings and AutobioGraphix) placed newer creators (Farel Dalrymple, Gilbert Austin, Jason Hall, Matt Kindt) alongside the more established names of Frank Miller
and Sam Kieth
.
Debuting with the Schutz-edited Sin City: Hell and Back by Frank Miller - who also suggested the "Maverick" name - the first year consolidated "[Dark Horse's] creator-owned, creator-produced titles under one roof -- such diverse titles as Mike Mignola
's Hellboy
, Stan Sakai
's Usagi Yojimbo
, Paul Chadwick
's The World Below, Matt Wagner
's Grendel
, and Sergio Aragonés
(and Mark Evanier
)'s Groo
, to mention just a few," bringing in new titles such as Rich Tommaso's The Horror of Collier County and providing a home for such projects as P. Craig Russell
's adaptation of The Ring of the Nibelung.
The eclectic titles had one thing in common, according to Schutz - "it has a lot to do with the particular project being a labor of love for the individual creator," despite the logical oddity of "attempting to unite the unique visions of each individual creator," which she termed "a paradoxical enterprise at best." The titles featured design work by Cary Grazzini, and each featured an individual variation of the distinctive Dark Horse "horse head," an idea of Mike Richardson's to "truly reflect... the spirit of independence that is Dark Horse Maverick."
During its second year, Schutz highlighted Maverick's "trades program" as standing out, both for collecting previously published materials, including Neil Gaiman
and Alice Cooper
's The Last Temptation (initially released in 1994
by Marvel Music
), and debuting new work, including titles by such legendary individuals as Will Eisner
. Somewhat ahead of its time, the imprint would contend with the "financial obstacles" that go hand-in-hand, said Schutz in 2001, with the then-declining numbers of people reading comics, but she maintained that:
(now amicably divorced), and lives in Portland, Oregon
, as does some of her family (including her sister Barbara, who is married to Grendel
-creator Matt Wagner
).
"Editorial work, to me, rests very much upon personal interaction. Again, particularly in the arena of creator-owned projects, where the creator has the final say. That doesn't mean that I don't give story feedback. That doesn't mean that I don't give critical feedback every step of the way. But it's up to the creator how much or how little of that feedback they want or are going to take."
On bad editors
"[W]hen I have been in a position to hire people and I sniff out the fact that somebody interviewing for an editor's job really wants to be a writer or an artist, I tend to discourage them from pursuing an editorial career. By and large, those people don't make very good editors. Why? They're jealous of the creators they work with. They get in a script and they don't edit it; they rewrite it. That's just not the way to approach the job - in my opinion."
On Dave Sim
"What do I believe? I believe that Dave is an extraordinary human being, extremely talented and that means that he deviates from the norm. Is he 'fucking nuts'? Any more than any other artist? I don't know. I think he's very, very serious about his interests and his beliefs. When he focuses on something, it tends to consume him."
in issue #23 of Brian Michael Bendis
and Mike Oeming's comics series Powers
(collected in the fifth trade paperback, Powers: Anarchy), as the owner of 'Dark Horse Coffee'. Her character discusses the problematic nature of vigilante
superheroes who exist above the normal system of law, and why non-powered individuals might feel betrayed by, wary or resentful of them.
and the 2006 Friends of Lulu
Award for Women of Distinction, and was also nominated in the (long-discontinued) Eisner "Best Editor" category in 1992, 1994, and 1995 for her work on a range of titles.
In addition to editing multiple books which have received Eisner
and Harvey Award
s, she has edited a handful of titles which have won the Eisner Award for "Best Anthology" - award-winning anthologies are often seen as the de facto 'editor's award' since their success depends far more on the editor than do other comics. She also - with artist Tim Sale
- won the 2006 Haxtur Award
for the Planeta deAgostini Spanish translation of their short story "Young Love" from Solo #1.
She says that:
Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
editor
Editing
Editing is the process of selecting and preparing written, visual, audible, and film media used to convey information through the processes of correction, condensation, organization, and other modifications performed with an intention of producing a correct, consistent, accurate, and complete...
, most notable as editor in chief
Editor in chief
An editor-in-chief is a publication's primary editor, having final responsibility for the operations and policies. Additionally, the editor-in-chief is held accountable for delegating tasks to staff members as well as keeping up with the time it takes them to complete their task...
of Comico
Comicó
Comicó is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina....
during its peak years and for her continuing tenure at Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, for whom she has worked since 1990. "She is Frank Miller
Frank Miller (comics)
Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
's editor on Sin City
Sin City
Sin City is the title for a series of neo-noir comics by Frank Miller. The first story originally appeared in "Dark Horse Presents Fifth Anniversary Special" , and continued in Dark Horse Presents #51–62 from May 1991 to June 1992, under the title of Sin City, serialized in thirteen parts. Several...
and 300, Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.-Career:...
's editor on Grendel
Grendel (comics)
Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
, Stan Sakai
Stan Sakai
is a third-generation Japanese American Cartoonist comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo. -Biography:...
's editor on Usagi Yojimbo
Usagi Yojimbo
is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1987. In 2011 IGN ranked Miyamoto Usagi 92nd in the top 100 comic books heroes.-Concept:Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period of Japan , with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, the series features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, whom...
, and Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick is an American comic book creator best known for his series Concrete about a normal man trapped in a rock-hard body....
's editor on Concrete
Concrete (comics)
Concrete is a comic book series created and written by Paul Chadwick and published by Dark Horse Comics. His first appearance is Dark Horse Presents #1...
", and known to her letter-column readers as "Auntie Dydie".
She is also an adjunct instructor of comics history and criticism at Portland Community College
Portland Community College
Portland Community College is Oregon's largest community college, located in Portland, United States. It serves over one million residents in the five county area of Multnomah, Washington, Yamhill, Clackamas, and Columbia...
.
Biography
Born on 1 February 1955 in Canada, Schutz read comics as a child. By her early teens, she began drifting towards Romance titles, and then away from comics altogether until college, where she studied Philosophy and Creative Writing. Finding comics including Steve GerberSteve Gerber
Stephen Ross "Steve" Gerber was an American comic book writer best known as co-creator of the satiric Marvel Comics character Howard the Duck....
's Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck
Howard the Duck is a comic book character in the Marvel Comics universe created by writer Steve Gerber and artist Val Mayerik. The character first appeared in Adventure into Fear #19 and several subsequent series have chronicled the misadventures of the ill-tempered, anthropomorphic, "funny...
a welcome diversion from - if ultimately not a polar opposite to - "Plato
Plato
Plato , was a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world. Along with his mentor, Socrates, and his student, Aristotle, Plato helped to lay the...
, Bertrand Russell and Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg , researching, lecturing and writing on philosophy and anthropology at the end of the 18th Century Enlightenment....
," she found herself pulled back into the world of comics. Frequenting the comic shop called "The ComicShop" (owned by Ken Witcher and Ron Norton) in Vancouver
Vancouver
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...
, British Columbia
British Columbia
British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...
, she ultimately dropped out of graduate Philosophy (with an undergraduate degree in Creative Writing) to move (in 1978) from being one of the ComicShop
Witcher, Norton and The ComicShop swiftly proved able sources for Diana to discover comics including "Barry Windsor-Smith
Barry Windsor-Smith
Barry Windsor-Smith, born Barry Smith is a British comic book illustrator and painter whose best known work has been produced in the United States....
's "Conan
Conan (Marvel Comics)
Conan is a fictional character based on Robert E. Howard's Conan the Barbarian. He was introduced to the comic book world in 1970 with Conan the Barbarian, written by Roy Thomas, illustrated by Barry Smith and published by Marvel Comics....
"; Jim Starlin
Jim Starlin
James P. "Jim" Starlin is an American comic book writer and artist. With a career dating back to the early 1970s, he is best known for "cosmic" tales and space opera; for revamping the Marvel Comics characters Captain Marvel and Adam Warlock; and for creating or co-creating the Marvel characters...
's "Captain Marvel
Mar-Vell
Captain Marvel is a fictional character owned by Marvel Comics. The character was created by writer-editor Stan Lee and designed by artist Gene Colan and first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 Captain Marvel (Mar-Vell) is a fictional character owned by Marvel Comics. The character was created...
"; Craig Russell
P. Craig Russell
Philip Craig Russell , also known as P. Craig Russell, is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards...
's Killraven
Killraven
Killraven is a fictional freedom fighter in several post-apocalyptic alternate futures of the Marvel Comics universe. He first appeared in Amazing Adventures #18 , created by co-plotters Roy Thomas and Neal Adams, scripter Gerry Conway, and penciller Adams...
; Dave Sim
Dave Sim
David Victor Sim is an award-winning Canadian comic book writer and artist.A pioneer of self-published comics and creators' rights, Sim is best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, a comic book published from 1977 to 2004, which chronicles its main character in a 6,000-page self-contained...
's "Cerebus", of which she was "one of the first 2,000 readers to actually buy issue 1." Schutz worked in comics stores for six years, moving from Vancouver to California and from The ComicShop to Comics & Comix in 1981. By 1982, she was making the move from retail towards publishing by means of a "bimonthly, 32-page "newsletter" that [she] put together for Comics & Comix" entitled The Telegraph Wire which was modeled on The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels...
(each issue containing an interview, reviews, news and adverts), and its production swiftly became her role at C&C.
Networking and early roles
Working on The Telegraph Wire "put me in touch with creators whom I would interview [and] publishers from whom I would solicit advertising to help underwrite the cost of this "newsletter" that we would give out for free at each of the 7 Comics & Comix stores." These contacts were added to by her attendance at an increasing numbers of conventions, including the Creation Conventions and the San Diego conventionComic-Con International
San Diego Comic-Con International, also known as Comic-Con International: San Diego , and commonly known as Comic-Con or the San Diego Comic-Con, was founded as the Golden State Comic Book Convention and later the San Diego Comic Book Convention in 1970 by Shel Dorf and a group of San Diegans...
:
- "Creation, at that time, used to run a comic book show virtually every weekend in some part of the country. It was then that I met my future - now divorced - husband, Bob Schreck, who was working for Creation in those days."
In addition to meeting and mingling with publishers, distributors, promotion teams and all manner of creators, Schutz started freelance work for "various other fan publications", including Comics Buyer's Guide
Comics Buyer's Guide
Comics Buyer's Guide , established in 1971, is the longest-running English-language periodical reporting on the American comic book industry...
, The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal
The Comics Journal, often abbreviated TCJ, is an American magazine of news and criticism pertaining to comic books, comic strips and graphic novels...
, Amazing Heroes
Amazing Heroes
Amazing Heroes was a magazine about the comic book medium published by Fantagraphics Books from 1981 to 1992. Unlike its companion title, The Comics Journal, Amazing Heroes was a hobbyist magazine rather than an analytical journal....
and Comics Scene, from which she graduated to a very brief - four day - job with Marvel Comics
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
as an assistant editor.
Recommended by friend Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont
Chris Claremont is an award-winning American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 17-year stint on Uncanny X-Men, far longer than any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters, and with introducing complex literary themes into superhero...
, Schutz was to be (at age 29) "Ann Nocenti
Ann Nocenti
Ann "Annie" Nocenti is an American journalist, writer, editor, and filmmaker best known for her work on comic books and magazines. As an editor for Marvel Comics, she edited New Mutants and The Uncanny X-Men...
's assistant editor on the X-Men
X-Men
The X-Men are a superhero team in the . They were created by writer Stan Lee and artist Jack Kirby, and first appeared in The X-Men #1...
", but found herself entering her new job with "unrealistic expectations"; ultimately handing in her notice after a mere four days. Several months later (in 1985), she (and Bob Schreck) began work at Comico
Comicó
Comicó is a village and municipality in Río Negro Province in Argentina....
, which "with its opportunities for creator ownership, and the fact that it was much smaller and more personable, was much more [her] style". Having picked up in her brief tenure at Marvel some knowledge "from Virginia Romita how to create and enforce production schedules", Schutz took over as Comico's primary editor. (Schreck oversaw "all the marketing and publishing type aspects".)
Dave Sim and Cerebus
Having been one of the small core of readers who bought the first issue of Dave SimDave Sim
David Victor Sim is an award-winning Canadian comic book writer and artist.A pioneer of self-published comics and creators' rights, Sim is best known as the creator of Cerebus the Aardvark, a comic book published from 1977 to 2004, which chronicles its main character in a 6,000-page self-contained...
's Cerebus, Schutz got to know the man himself, and began working for him as a proofreader, first unofficially, and then officially from the "middle of '94" until early 2001. She explains that she "never proofed the book itself," "[j]ust the text, the typeset text" feeling that her respect for his abilities outweighed any potential "qualms" about the book's often-contentious content.
Schutz's stated stance (which has largely held sway throughout her entire editorial career) is that her role is not to interfere with an artist's story, merely to make sure that their work is "as grammatically clear as it could be." This she did for Sim for several years, balking only when Sim sent her a "boxing challenge to proofread" which she felt was a personal attack on a friend (and one introduced to her by Sim himself). Schutz promptly resigned in January 2001, and Sim even published her resignation letter in Cerebus #265. This issue also included a "20-page anti-female diatribe," and Schutz remains mildly aggravated over this juxtaposition, since she thinks some readers might equate the two - she did not, and found herself having to explain that she had no problem proofreading "an argument, no matter how faulty, in which Dave believes," no matter her personal views, and that she had resigned over the boxing challenge itself from the previous issue, #264. Indeed, even while Schutz was performing proofreading duties, she did so via fax, and had very little - if any - personal contact with Sim himself.
Dark Horse
By 1990, Schutz began work for Dark Horse ComicsDark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
, rising (by 2007) to the position of Executive Editor, having variously held the roles of Senior Editor, Managing Editor, and Editor-in-Chief. In December 2001, she was the fifth-most-senior staff member in terms of length-of-employment (after, respectively, Mike Richardson
Mike Richardson (publisher)
Mike Richardson is an American writer, film producer and the founder of Dark Horse Comics, a comic book publication company based in Milwaukie, Oregon.-Career:...
, Randy Stradley, Neil Hankerson and Cary Grazzini), but stated that she had originally relinquished the job of Editor-in-Chief in December 1995, after almost two years, "because what it did is it put me in meetings all the damn time, writing memos and holding people's hands and I wasn't able to make good comics anymore".
Concurrent with her move to Oregon, Schutz returned to graduate studies, and in 1994 she received a Master of Arts
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...
degree in Communication Studies
Communication studies
Communication Studies is an academic field that deals with processes of communication, commonly defined as the sharing of symbols over distances in space and time. Hence, communication studies encompasses a wide range of topics and contexts ranging from face-to-face conversation to speeches to mass...
from the University of Portland
University of Portland
The University of Portland is a private Roman Catholic university located in Portland, Oregon. It is affiliated with the Congregation of Holy Cross and is the sister school of the University of Notre Dame. Founded in 1901, UP has a student body of about 3,600 students...
, writing her M.A. thesis on female cartoonists Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet
Julie Doucet is a Canadian former underground cartoonist and artist, best known for her autobiographical works such as Dirty Plotte and My New York Diary...
, Roberta Gregory
Roberta Gregory
Roberta Gregory is an American comic book writer and artist best known for her character Bitchy Bitch from her Fantagraphics Books series Naughty Bits.Gregory's father was Disney comics artist Bob Gregory...
, and Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb
Aline Kominsky-Crumb is an American underground comics artist best known as the wife of cartoonist R. Crumb....
.
Frank Miller
With Bob Schreck's departure from Dark Horse (first to Oni Press and then to DC), Frank MillerFrank Miller (comics)
Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
found himself without an editor, and called Schutz - the two are friends - in the hopes that she would agree to edit his subsequent work. Initially reluctant, thinking that the professional relationship could jeopardize their friendship, she ultimately agreed to a "trial run of six months," which extended into an editor-writer relationship of several years.
Maverick
In July 19991999 in comics
-February:* February 3: Pioneering editor Vin Sullivan dies at age 87.* February 26: John L. Goldwater, co-founder of Archie Comics, dies at age 82.-March:* Incredible Hulk is canceled by Marvel with issue #474.-May:...
, Schutz instigated the Maverick
Maverick (Dark Horse)
Maverick is a now-defunct imprint of Dark Horse Comics, created in 1999 by editor Diana Schutz for creator-owned works, to "provid[e] a home for creator-owned properties — providing a certain identity to those creator-owned labors of love that distinguishes them from Dark Horse's licensed books."...
imprint
Imprint
In the publishing industry, an imprint can mean several different things:* As a piece of bibliographic information about a book, it refers to the name and address of the book's publisher and its date of publication as given at the foot or on the verso of its title page.* It can mean a trade name...
at Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics is the largest independent American comic book and manga publisher.Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals. Richardson started out by opening his first comic book...
which was designed as an umbrella title for a number of creator-owned titles, including some already published by Dark Horse and some new to the publisher. The 'Maverick' name was designed "to provide a kind of identity or specific line for those sorts of individual creator visions." The aim of the "Maverick" line was to "push the medium a little bit," although Schutz recognized that such titles are often a hard sell. To help address this, the Maverick Annual anthologies (published from 2000 as Dark Horse Maverick and later under such subtitles as Happy Endings and AutobioGraphix) placed newer creators (Farel Dalrymple, Gilbert Austin, Jason Hall, Matt Kindt) alongside the more established names of Frank Miller
Frank Miller (comics)
Frank Miller is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City and 300...
and Sam Kieth
Sam Kieth
Sam Kieth is a New York Times best-selling American comic book writer and illustrator, best known as the creator of The Maxx and Zero Girl.-Comics career:...
.
Debuting with the Schutz-edited Sin City: Hell and Back by Frank Miller - who also suggested the "Maverick" name - the first year consolidated "[Dark Horse's] creator-owned, creator-produced titles under one roof -- such diverse titles as Mike Mignola
Mike Mignola
Michael Joseph "Mike" Mignola is an American comic book artist and writer who created the comic book series Hellboy for Dark Horse Comics. He has worked for animation projects such as Atlantis: The Lost Empire and the adaptation of his one shot comic book, The Amazing Screw-On Head.-Career:Mignola...
's Hellboy
Hellboy
Hellboy is a comic book superhero created by writer-artist Mike Mignola. The character first appeared in San Diego Comic-Con Comics #2 , and has since appeared in various eponymous miniseries, one-shots and intercompany crossovers...
, Stan Sakai
Stan Sakai
is a third-generation Japanese American Cartoonist comic book creator. He is best known as the creator of the comic series Usagi Yojimbo. -Biography:...
's Usagi Yojimbo
Usagi Yojimbo
is a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1987. In 2011 IGN ranked Miyamoto Usagi 92nd in the top 100 comic books heroes.-Concept:Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period of Japan , with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, the series features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, whom...
, Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick
Paul Chadwick is an American comic book creator best known for his series Concrete about a normal man trapped in a rock-hard body....
's The World Below, Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.-Career:...
's Grendel
Grendel (comics)
Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
, and Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés
Sergio Aragonés Domenech is a cartoonist and writer best known for his contributions to Mad Magazine and creator of the comic book Groo the Wanderer....
(and Mark Evanier
Mark Evanier
Mark Stephen Evanier is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his humor work. He is also known for his columns and blogs, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, Kirby: King of...
)'s Groo
Groo
Groo may refer to:* Groo the Wanderer, a comic book series.* The Groosalugg, a character in the television show Angel.- See also :* Grue * GRU* Grew * Grewe...
, to mention just a few," bringing in new titles such as Rich Tommaso's The Horror of Collier County and providing a home for such projects as P. Craig Russell
P. Craig Russell
Philip Craig Russell , also known as P. Craig Russell, is an American comic book writer, artist, and illustrator. His work has won multiple Harvey and Eisner Awards...
's adaptation of The Ring of the Nibelung.
The eclectic titles had one thing in common, according to Schutz - "it has a lot to do with the particular project being a labor of love for the individual creator," despite the logical oddity of "attempting to unite the unique visions of each individual creator," which she termed "a paradoxical enterprise at best." The titles featured design work by Cary Grazzini, and each featured an individual variation of the distinctive Dark Horse "horse head," an idea of Mike Richardson's to "truly reflect... the spirit of independence that is Dark Horse Maverick."
During its second year, Schutz highlighted Maverick's "trades program" as standing out, both for collecting previously published materials, including Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
and Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper
Alice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
's The Last Temptation (initially released in 1994
1994 in comics
-Year overall:* Huge changes in the marketplace force many retailers and small publishers out of business...
by Marvel Music
Marvel Comics
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., commonly referred to as Marvel Comics and formerly Marvel Publishing, Inc. and Marvel Comics Group, is an American company that publishes comic books and related media...
), and debuting new work, including titles by such legendary individuals as Will Eisner
Will Eisner
William Erwin "Will" Eisner was an American comics writer, artist and entrepreneur. He is considered one of the most important contributors to the development of the medium and is known for the cartooning studio he founded; for his highly influential series The Spirit; for his use of comics as an...
. Somewhat ahead of its time, the imprint would contend with the "financial obstacles" that go hand-in-hand, said Schutz in 2001, with the then-declining numbers of people reading comics, but she maintained that:
- "...the future of comics resides in the kinds of projects that are going to appeal to a more adult reader."
Personal life
She was married to Bob SchreckBob Schreck
-Career:One of Shreck's earliest jobs in comics was art director at Comico. For much of the 1990s Schreck was an editor at Dark Horse Comics, and went on to found Oni Press in 1997. Then he went over to work as an editor at DC Comics, where he worked on the Batman comics and the All Star titles,...
(now amicably divorced), and lives in Portland, Oregon
Portland, Oregon
Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States...
, as does some of her family (including her sister Barbara, who is married to Grendel
Grendel (comics)
Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
-creator Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner
Matt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.-Career:...
).
Quotes
On the role of the editor"Editorial work, to me, rests very much upon personal interaction. Again, particularly in the arena of creator-owned projects, where the creator has the final say. That doesn't mean that I don't give story feedback. That doesn't mean that I don't give critical feedback every step of the way. But it's up to the creator how much or how little of that feedback they want or are going to take."
On bad editors
"[W]hen I have been in a position to hire people and I sniff out the fact that somebody interviewing for an editor's job really wants to be a writer or an artist, I tend to discourage them from pursuing an editorial career. By and large, those people don't make very good editors. Why? They're jealous of the creators they work with. They get in a script and they don't edit it; they rewrite it. That's just not the way to approach the job - in my opinion."
On Dave Sim
"What do I believe? I believe that Dave is an extraordinary human being, extremely talented and that means that he deviates from the norm. Is he 'fucking nuts'? Any more than any other artist? I don't know. I think he's very, very serious about his interests and his beliefs. When he focuses on something, it tends to consume him."
In comics
"Diana Schutz" makes a cameo appearanceCameo appearance
A cameo role or cameo appearance is a brief appearance of a known person in a work of the performing arts, such as plays, films, video games and television...
in issue #23 of Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis
Brian Michael Bendis is an American comic book writer and erstwhile artist. He has won critical acclaim for his self-published, Image Comics and Marvel Comics work, and is one of the most successful writers working in mainstream comics, with his books selling consistently highly for over a...
and Mike Oeming's comics series Powers
Powers (comics)
Powers is an American creator-owned police procedural comic book series by writer Brian Michael Bendis and artist Michael Avon Oeming. The series' first volume was published by Image Comics from 2000 to 2004...
(collected in the fifth trade paperback, Powers: Anarchy), as the owner of 'Dark Horse Coffee'. Her character discusses the problematic nature of vigilante
Vigilante
A vigilante is a private individual who legally or illegally punishes an alleged lawbreaker, or participates in a group which metes out extralegal punishment to an alleged lawbreaker....
superheroes who exist above the normal system of law, and why non-powered individuals might feel betrayed by, wary or resentful of them.
As writer
- Grendel: Devil Child
- "Tuesday Night at the Jazz Club" in Dark Horse Presents #97
- reprinted with minor corrections in AutobioGraphix (2003)
- "Knox" (adaptation) in Harlan EllisonHarlan EllisonHarlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
's Dream Corridor (1995) - Contributed to FantaCo's Chronicles Series #4: "The Avengers Chronicles" (Fantaco/Tundra Jun 1982)
- Grendel: Devil Child #1-2 (art by Tim SaleTim Sale (artist)Tim Sale is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb.-Early life:...
) (1999) - "Season's Greeting" in Robotech The Macross Saga #35 (1984)
- "Young Love" in Solo #1 (Tim Sale) (2004)
- Usagi Yojimbo #100 (2007)
- "Jeff Macey's Girls" in Sexy Chix (2006)
- "Introduction" to Daredevil Visionaries: Frank Miller, Volume 2 (Marvel, Apr 2000)
- "Foreword" to Wonder Woman Archives, Volume 2 (DC, Nov 2000)
- "Introduction" to Supergirl Archives, Volume 1 (DC, Nov 2001)
- "Introduction" to Truth Serum (City Cyclops, 2005)
- 'Resignation Letter' in Cerebus #265
As editor at Comico
- Mage: The Hero Discovered #6-15 (Comico, 1985 - Dec 1986)
- Next Man #1-5 (Mar-Oct 1985)
- Robotech The Macross Saga #3, 5-19, 29-36 (May 1985 - Feb 1989)
- Robotech Masters #1-15 (July 1985 - April 1987)
- Robotech The New Generation #1-6, 11-16 (July 1985 - June 1987)
- Elementals Special #1-2 (Mar 1986, Jan 1989)
- Justice Machine featuring the Elementals #1-4 (May-Aug 1986)
- Jonny Quest #1-31 (Jun 1986 - Dec 1988)
- GrendelGrendel (comics)Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
#1-40 (Oct 1986 - Jan 1990) - Elementals #11, 17-29 (Dec 1986 - Sep 1988)
- Justice Machine #1-11 (Jan-Nov 1987)
- Star Blazers #1-4 (Apr-Jul 1987)
- GumbyGumbyGumby is a green clay humanoid character created and modeled by Art Clokey, who also created Davey and Goliath. Gumby has been the subject of a 233-episode series of American television as well as a feature-length film and other media...
's Summer Fun Special #1 (Jul 1987) - The World of Ginger Fox OGN (1987)
- Grendel: Devil's Vagary one-shot (Oct 1987)
- Night and the Enemy TPB (Nov 1987)
- Space GhostSpace GhostSpace Ghost is a fictional superhero created by Hanna-Barbera Productions and designed by Alex Toth for CBS in the 1960s. In his original incarnation, he was a superhero who, with his sidekick teen helpers Jan, Jace, and Blip the monkey, fought supervillains in outer space...
#1 (Dec 1987) - Robotech Special #1 (May 1988)
- The Jam Color Special #1 (May 1988)
- The Rocketeer Adventure Magazine #1-2 (Jul 1988, 1989)
- Ginger Fox #1-4 (Sep-Dec 1988)
- Comico Christmas Special #1 (Dec 1988)
- Ribit! #1-4 (Jan-Apr 1989)
- The Amazon #1-3 (Mar-May 1989)
- The Trouble with Girls #2 (Mar 1989) #2
- Trekker Color Special #1 (Jul 1989)
- Silverback #1-3 (Oct-Dec 1989)
Grendel
- GrendelGrendel (comics)Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
: War Child #1-10 (Aug 1992 - Apr 1993) - The History Of Grendel one-shot (1993)
- Batman/Grendel: Devil's Riddle #1 (Apr 1993)
- Batman/Grendel: Devil's Masque #2 (May 1993)
- Grendel: Devil By The Deed one-shot (Jul 1993)
- Grendel Tales: Four Devils, One Hell #1-6 (Aug 1993 - Jan 1994)
- Grendel Tales: The Devil's Hammer #1-3 (Feb-Apr 1994)
- Grendel Tales: The Devil in Our Midst #1-5 (May-Sep 1994)
- Grendel Tales: Devils and Deaths #1-2 (Sep-Nov 1994)
- Grendel Tales: Homecoming #1-3 (Dec 1994 - Feb 1995)
- Grendel Tales: Devil's Choices #1-4 (Mar-Jun 1995)
- Grendel Classics #1-2 (Jul-Aug 1995)
- Grendel Cycle #1 (Oct 1995)
- Grendel Tales: The Devil May Care #1 (Dec 1995 - May 1986)
- Batman/Grendel: Devil's Bones #1 (Jun 1996)
- Batman/Grendel: Devil's Dance #2 (Jun 1996)
- Grendel Tales: The Devil's Apprentice #1-3 (Sep-Nov 1997)
- Grendel: Black, White & Red #1-4 (Nov 1998 - Feb 1999)
- Grendel: Devil Child (with Matt Wagner; also writer) #1-2 (Jun-Aug 1999)
- Grendel: Devil's Legacy #1-12 (Mar 2000 - Feb 2001)
- Grendel: The Devil Inside #1-3 (Sep-Nov 2001)
- Grendel: Red, White, & Black #1-4 (Sep-Dec 2002)
- Grendel: God and the Devil #0-10 (Jan-Dec 2003)
- Grendel: Devil's Reign #1-7 (May-Dec 2004)
- Grendel: Behold the Devil #0-8 (Jul 2007-Jun 2008)
American Splendor
- American SplendorAmerican SplendorAmerican Splendor is a series of autobiographical comic books written by the late Harvey Pekar and drawn by a variety of artists. The first issue was published in 1976 and the most recent in September 2008, with publication occurring at irregular intervals...
#17 (Jul 1993) - American Splendor: Windfall #1-2 (Sep-Oct 1995)
- American Splendor: Comic-Con Comics #1 (Aug 1996)
- American Splendor: On the Job #1 (May 1997)
- American Splendor: Music Comics #1 (Nov 1997)
- American Splendor: Odds & Ends #1 (Dec 1997)
- American Splendor: TransAtlantic Comics #1 (Jul 1998)
- American Splendor: Terminal #1 (Sep 1999)
- American Splendor: Bedtime Stories #1 (Jun 2000)
- American Splendor: Portrait of the Author in His Declining Years #1 (Apr 2001)
- American Splendor: Unsung Hero #1-3 (Aug-Oct 2002)
Maverick
- Sin City: Hell and Back #1-9 (Jul 1999 - Apr 2000) - launch title
- The Horror of Collier County #1-5 (Oct 1999 - Feb 2000)
- The World Below: Deeper and Stranger #1-4 (Dec 1999 - Mar 2000)
- Dark Horse Maverick 2000 #0 (Jul 2000)
- Last Day in Vietnam OGN (Jul 2000)
- The Last Temptation TPB, by Neil GaimanNeil GaimanNeil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
, Alice CooperAlice CooperAlice Cooper is an American rock singer, songwriter and musician whose career spans more than four decades...
and Michael ZulliMichael ZulliMichael Zulli is an American artist known for his work as an animal and wildlife illustrator and as a comic book illustrator. He's gotten great acclaim for his work on The Sandman with writer Neil Gaiman and has been a longtime collaborator with the author...
(Nov 2000) - reprint of the Marvel Music issues (1994) - Will Eisner's Shop Talk TPB (Jun 2001)
- Dark Horse Maverick 2001 #1 (Jul 2001)
- Ancient JoeAncient JoeAncient Joe is a comic book series created by Scott Morse and published by Dark Horse Comics....
#1-3 (Oct-Dec 2001) - Harlequin Valentine OGN (Nov 2001)
- Dark Horse Maverick Annual: Happy Endings #1 (Sep 2002)
- Will Eisner's Hawks of the Seas OGN (Jul 2003)
- AutobioGraphix OGN (Dec 2003)
Other
- Aliens vs. Predator #0, 1-4 (Jun-Dec 1990)
- Aliens: Earth War #1-4 (Jun-Oct 1990)
- The Terminator #1-4 (Aug-Nov 1990)
- Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis #1-3 (Mar-Jul 1991)
- Predator: Big Game #1-4 (Mar-Jun 1991)
- Deadface: Doing the Islands with Bacchus #1-3 (Jul-Sep 1991)
- The Terminator: One Shot #1 (Jul 1991)
- The Terminator: Secondary Objectives #1-4 (Jul-Oct 1991)
- Batman versus Predator #1-3 (Dec 1991 - Feb 1992)
- The Eyeball Kid #1-3 (Apr-Jun 1992)
- Deadface: Earth, Water, Air and Fire #1-4 (Jul-Oct 1992)
- Dark Horse Comics #1-2 (Aug-Sep 1992)
- Nina's All-Time Greatest Collector's Item Classic Comics #1 (Aug 1992)
- Rio at Bay #2 (Aug 1992)
- The Terminator: Endgame #1-3 (Sep-Oct 1992)
- The 1001 Nights of Bacchus (May 1993)
- Aliens/Predator: The Deadliest of the Species #1-7 (Jul 1993 - Aug 1994)
- The Jam #6-8 (Oct 1993 - Feb 1995)
- Indiana Jones and the Arms of Gold #1-4 (Feb-May 1994)
- American Splendor Special: A Step Out of the Nest #1 (Aug 1994)
- Bacchus Color Special (Apr 1995)
- Indiana Jones and the Sargasso Pirates #1 (Dec 1995 - Mar 1996)
- Usagi YojimboUsagi Yojimbois a comic book series created by Stan Sakai in 1987. In 2011 IGN ranked Miyamoto Usagi 92nd in the top 100 comic books heroes.-Concept:Set primarily at the beginning of Edo period of Japan , with anthropomorphic animals replacing humans, the series features a rabbit ronin, Miyamoto Usagi, whom...
#24-109 (Jun 1996 - Jan 2008) - Harlan EllisonHarlan EllisonHarlan Jay Ellison is an American writer. His principal genre is speculative fiction.His published works include over 1,700 short stories, novellas, screenplays, teleplays, essays, a wide range of criticism covering literature, film, television, and print media...
's Dream Corridor Quarterly #1 (Aug 1996) - Barry Windsor-Smith: Storyteller #1-9 (Oct 1996 - Jul 1997)
- Batman/Aliens #1-2 (Mar-Apr 1997)
- Tales to Offend #1 (Jul 1997)
- Sin City: Family Values OGN (Oct 1997)
- Bad Boy #1 (Dec 1997)
- Martha Washington Saves the World #1-3 (Dec 1997 - Feb 1998)
- Star Wars: Crimson Empire #1-6 (Dec 1997 - May 1998)
- 300 #1-5 (May-Sep 1998)
- Madman/The Jam #1-2 (Jul-Aug 1998)
- Sin City: Just Another Saturday Night #1 (Oct 1998)
- Star Wars: Crimson Empire II: Council of Blood #1-6 (Nov 1998 - Apr 1999)
- Dr. Robot Special #1 (Apr 2000)
- Madman Comics #17-20 (Aug-Dec 2000)
- Star Wars Tales #10, 14, 16, 20 (Dec 2001 - June 2004)
- Flaming Carrot & Reid Fleming, World's Toughest Milkman #1 (Dec 2002)
- Star Wars: A Valentine Story (Feb 2003)
- The Will Eisner Sketchbook HC (Dec 2003)
- Michael ChabonMichael ChabonMichael Chabon born May 24, 1963) is an American author and "one of the most celebrated writers of his generation", according to The Virginia Quarterly Review....
Presents... the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist #1-8 (Feb 2004 Nov 2005) - Creatures of the Night OGN (Nov 2004)
- The Art of Usagi Yojimbo HC (Dec 2004)
- Concrete: The Human Dilemma #1-6 (Dec 2004 - May 2005)
- Sexy Chix OGN (Jan 2006)
- De:TALES OGN (Jun 2006)
- The Escapists #1-6 (Jul-Dec 2006)
- It Rhymes with Lust OGN (Mar 2007)
- Martha Washington Dies #1 (Jul 2007)
- The Art of Bone HC (Jul 2007)
- The Art of Matt Wagner's Grendel HC (Sep 2007)
- The Facts in the Case of the Departure of Miss Finch OGN (Jan 2008)
As Editor, collected editions
- Martha Washington Goes To War TPB (Nov 1995)
- Sin City: Booze, Broads, & Bullets TPB (Dec 1998)
- 300 HC (Aug 1999)
- Too Much Coffee Man's Parade of Tirade TPB (1999)
- Too Much Coffee Man's Amusing Musings TPB (Dec 2001)
- Billi 99 TPB (Oct 2002)
- Pop Gun War: Gift TPB (Jun 2003)
- Mother, Come Home TPB (2003)
- Frank Miller's Sin City Vol. 1 (Dec 2004)
- Frank Miller's Sin City Vol. 5 (Mar 2005
- Frank Miller's Sin City Vol. 6 (Mar 2005)
- Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Vol. 2 TPB (Mar 2007)
- The Escapists HC (Dec 2007)
- Batman/Grendel TPB (Feb 2008)
Awards
She has won an Inkpot AwardInkpot Award
The Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly multigenre fan convention, commonly known as...
and the 2006 Friends of Lulu
Friends of Lulu
Friends of Lulu was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, founded in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry...
Award for Women of Distinction, and was also nominated in the (long-discontinued) Eisner "Best Editor" category in 1992, 1994, and 1995 for her work on a range of titles.
In addition to editing multiple books which have received Eisner
Eisner Award
The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
and Harvey Award
Harvey Award
The Harvey Awards, named for writer-artist Harvey Kurtzman and founded by Gary Groth, President of the publisher Fantagraphics, are given for achievement in comic books. The Harveys were created as part of a successor to the Kirby Awards which were discontinued after 1987.The Harvey Awards are...
s, she has edited a handful of titles which have won the Eisner Award for "Best Anthology" - award-winning anthologies are often seen as the de facto 'editor's award' since their success depends far more on the editor than do other comics. She also - with artist Tim Sale
Tim Sale (artist)
Tim Sale is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb.-Early life:...
- won the 2006 Haxtur Award
Haxtur Award
The Haxtur Award is a Spanish award for comics published in Spain. It is awarded annually at the Salón Internacional del Cómic del Principado de Asturias ....
for the Planeta deAgostini Spanish translation of their short story "Young Love" from Solo #1.
- Inkpot AwardInkpot AwardThe Inkpot Award, bestowed annually since 1974 by Comic-Con International, is given to some of the professionals in comic book, comic strip, animation, science fiction, and related pop-culture fields, who are guests of that organization's yearly multigenre fan convention, commonly known as...
(1989) - Eisner Award for Best Anthology (1999) for GrendelGrendel (comics)Grendel is a long-running series of comic books originally created by American author Matt Wagner. First published by Comico, Wagner has now moved his character to Dark Horse. Originally a noir comic in the style of European titles such as Diabolik, it has evolved into, in Wagner's words, a study...
: Black, White, and Red by Matt WagnerMatt WagnerMatt Wagner is an American comic book writer and artist, best known as the creator of the series Mage and Grendel.-Career:... - Eisner Award for Best Anthology (2005) for The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist by various
- Harvey Award for Best Anthology (2005) (tied with Chris WareChris WareFranklin Christenson Ware , is an American comic book artist and cartoonist, widely known for his Acme Novelty Library series and the graphic novel Jimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth. Born in Omaha, Nebraska, he resides in the Chicago area, Illinois...
for McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13) for The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist by various - Haxtur AwardHaxtur AwardThe Haxtur Award is a Spanish award for comics published in Spain. It is awarded annually at the Salón Internacional del Cómic del Principado de Asturias ....
(2006) for "Young Love" in Solo #1, with artist Tim SaleTim Sale (artist)Tim Sale is an American Eisner Award-winning comic book artist. He is primarily known for his collaborations with writer Jeph Loeb.-Early life:... - Friends of LuluFriends of LuluFriends of Lulu was a non-profit, national charitable organization in the United States, founded in 1994 to promote readership of comic books by women and the participation of women in the comic book industry...
Award for Women of Distinction (2006) - Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame (2009)
She says that:
External links
- FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK: Diana Schutz, Part I, Comic Book ResourcesComic Book ResourcesComic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...
, January 20, 2009 - FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK: Diana Schutz, Part II, Comic Book ResourcesComic Book ResourcesComic Book Resources, also known as CBR is a website dedicated to the coverage of comic book-related news and discussion.-History:Comic Book Resources was founded by Jonah Weiland in 1996 as a development of the Kingdom Come Message Board, a message forum that Weiland had created to discuss DC...
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