Diana Schutz

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Full Name	Diana Schutz
Occupation	Editor
Date Of Birth	Feb 1, 1955(1955-02-01)
Age	69
Birthplace	Canada
Country	United States
Horoscope	Aquarius

Diana Schutz Biography

Diana Schutz is one of the most popular and richest Editor who was born on February 1, 1955 in Canada, United States. Diana Schutz was born on February 1, 1955, in Canada. She was a comic book reader as a young girl. In her teens, she was moving towards romance novels and later straying away from comics completely until her college years, when she was studying philosophical writing and philosophy. In the process of discovering comics, such as Stephen Gerber’s Howard the Duck a welcome escape from, although not necessarily a complete opposite of “Plato, Bertrand Russell and Immanuel Kant,” she was enticed back into this world of comics. The comic shop she frequented was “The ComicShop” (owned by Ken Witcher and Ron Norton) in Vancouver, British Columbia, she eventually dropped out of philosophy graduate school (with an undergrad degree in writing) in order to transition (in the year 1978) to become one of ComicShop’s few female customers to one of the few “counter people,” where she began “learn[ing] social skills I never learned in the ivory tower of academia.”

In the year the year 1990 Schutz was working at Dark Horse Comics, rising (by 2007) to the rank of Executive Editor. She had been in various roles, including the Senior Editor and Managing Editor and Editor-in-Chief. In December 2001 she was the fifth-highest-ranking staff member by duration of employment (after and following Mike Richardson, Randy Stradley, Neil Hankerson and Cary Grazzini) however, she stated that she initially resigned the position of Editor-in-Chief December 1995, 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.

In July 1999, 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.

Recommendation from friend Chris Claremont, Schutz was to become (at 29 years old) Ann Nocenti’s Assistant Editor on X-Men However, she ended up beginning her new position in the midst of “unrealistic expectations”; ultimately giving her notice within a matter of four days. A few months later (in 1985) the duo (and Bob Schreck) began working for Comico that “with its opportunities for creator ownership, and the fact that it was much smaller and more personable, was much more [her] style”. The first comic book editor she had credits were Robotech: The Macross Saga #3. She picked up during her short time at Marvel some of the knowledge “from Virginia Romita how to create and enforce production schedules”, Schutz took over the role of Comico’s chief editor. (Schreck was in charge of “all the marketing and publishing type aspects”.)

Diana Schutz Net Worth

Diana Schutz is one of the richest Editor from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Diana Schutz 's net worth $3-5 Million. * (Last Update: February 3, 2024)

Diana Schutz (born February 1 1955) is a native of Canada and a comic book editor who served as the chief editor of Comico in its peak times and then an extended period of 25 years with Dark Horse Comics. The most well-known comics she edited include Frank Miller’s Sin City and 300, Matt Wagner’s Grendel and Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo, and Paul Chadwick’s Concrete. She was well-known to readers of her letter-columns for her role as “Auntie Dydie”. Her role is as an adjunct professor of comics criticism and history for Portland Community College.

Schutz worked in comics shops for six years before moving to Vancouver into California and then from The ComicShop to Comics and Comix in 1981. By the year 1982 she had made the shift from retail to publishing with the help of the “bimonthly 32-page magazine she put together to promote Comics & Comix entitled The Telegraph Wire that was modeled after The Comics Journal (each issue includes an interview, review as well as news and advertisements) and its production rapidly became her responsibility at C&C.

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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.

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Interesting Facts about Diana Schutz

1. Diana Schutz is a Canadian-born comic book editor.
2. She worked at Dark Horse Comics for over 25 years.
3. Schutz edited award-winning comics like Sin City and Usagi Yojimbo.
4. She was the first woman to win an Eisner Award for Best Editor in 1992.
5. Schutz has also taught courses on comic book editing and publishing.
6. In 2018, she received the ComicsPRO Industry Appreciation Award.
7. Schutz retired from Dark Horse Comics in 2015 but continues to work as a freelance editor.
8. She has been credited with helping to elevate the status of independent comics.
9. Schutz has collaborated with many well-known comic book creators, including Frank Miller and Stan Sakai.
10. Her contributions to the industry have made her a respected figure among fans and professionals alike.