Editor's Day 2007

So the past two days has been the Spring Sequential Art Event, as I like to call it, I think SSAE is really close to SASE, and we all know how much that goes with the publishing / book world. Every spring, SCAD's SEQA department hosts "Editor's Day" in which we get a group of editors from the industry to come in, have a panel discussion, and review portfolios.

I was fortunate enough to get in to see three different editors: Tim Beedle (Tokyopop), Chris Duffy (Nickelodeon Magazine), and James Lucas Jones (Oni).

First off, I'd like to point out how cruel it is to ship people across the country and give them an am meeting session. I will say that both Tim and JLJ were wonderful to converse with. (Tim had a harder morning of it than JLJ, apparently, but everyone is different.) I got good feedback and made some new contacts.

Also, I'd like to applaud the overall feeling of this year's ED (ah how my boarding school acronym-izing returns to me). There seemed to be a real sense of community throughout the building. Everyone seemed to come together in a way I felt was absent during last year's ED. There seemed to be much less confusion and much more talking. There was a lot of waiting around (but then there always is, it's the way of things), but overall I found the day to be much like any formalized portfolio review.

As a final Postscript on my review of ED-07, I want to note something that perhaps not even everyone present at the event will be aware of. James Lucas Jones stayed through lunch and saw people. I think that was a very grand gesture, and so I applaud him for it.