Igor Goldkind

Igor Goldkind
Born	April 20, 1960 (1960-04-20) Lansing, Michigan
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer
Notable works	The Clown

Igor Goldkind (born April 20, 1960) was a marketing consultant who worked for a number of publishers, before moving into writing comics. He currently works in semantic web development and web-based marketing.

Biography

Igor Goldkind worked first for Titan Books in the 1980s and then for Egmont Fleetway in the 1990s as a marketing consultant and PR marketing manager[citation needed]. In England, Titan Books held the license to reprint strips from 2000 AD, including Judge Dredd, beginning in 1981, and Robo-Hunter, 1982[citation needed]. The company also published British editions of American trade paperbacks — including Swamp Thing, notable for being printed in black and white rather than in color as originally — and of British newspaper strips, including Modesty Blaise and Garth. Igor Goldkind was the marketing consultant who worked at Titan and moved to 2000 AD, using the term "graphic novel" as a way to help sell the trade paperbacks they were publishing[citation needed]. He admits that he "stole the term outright from Will Eisner" with the authors permission and his contribution was to "take the badge (today it's called a 'brand') and explain it, contextualise it and sell it convincingly enough so that bookshop keepers, book distributors and the book trade would accept a new category of 'spine-fiction' on their bookshelves."

In the period 1991-1993 he was a regular writer for 2000 AD, working on the ongoing Judge Hershey character, as well as creating The Clown, a satire on the works of Neil Gaiman, Goldkind referring to it as "The Sandman on laughing gas". However, after a year Goldkind left mainstream comics industry to set up new media company Artemis Communications that developed some of the early publishing websites, including www.rewardsgroup.co.uk, www.quote4mortgages.com and www.capricornresearch.com. Igor Goldkind later became an early evangelist for new digital media and the Internet as a marketing platform and coordinated some of the first publishing websites for Oxford University Press and Usborne Books, among others, under the company banners 'Artemis interactive' and then 'Signa Internet Strategies'[citation needed]. He currently consults on semantic web development for the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Environmental Institute and is writing a book on the subject entitled The Inference Engine. Recently he has returned to more creative writing, publishing poetry, short stories and a new comic series entitled Going Down the Cowley Road'[citation needed].

Bibliography

Comics work includes:

• "A day in the life" (with Glenn Fabry, in Crisis #39, 1990)
• "Nine Inches to the Mile" (with Phil Winslade, in Revolver #1, 1990)
• "The general and the priest" (with Jim Baikie, in Crisis #55, 1991)
• "Lord Jim" (with Steve Sampson, in Crisis #59, 1991)

• The Clown:
  • "The Clown Book 1" (with Robert Bliss, in 2000 AD #774-779, 1992)
  • "The Clown Book 2 Prologue" (with Robert Bliss, in 2000 AD #841, 1993)
  • "Vale of Tears" (with Greg Staples, in 2000AD Yearbook 1994, 1993)
  • "The Clown Book 2" (with Robert Bliss/Greg Staples/Nick Percival, in 2000 AD #881-888, 1994)

• Tharg's Future Shocks: "Lazyview Rest Home" (with Ron Smith, in 2000 AD #831, 1993)

• Strontium Dogs: "Angel Blood" (with Jon Beeston/Colin MacNeil, in 2000AD Sci-Fi Special 1993)

• Judge Hershey (with Kevin Cullen):
  • "A Game of Dolls" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #27-30, 1993)
  • "The Harlequin's Dance" (in Judge Dredd Megazine vol. 2 #37-40, 1993)

• Vector 13: "Case 667: Suburban Hell" (with Dix and Nick Abadzis, in 2000AD Sci-Fi Special 1996)

References

• Igor Goldkind at Barney
• Igor Goldkind at the Comic Book DB

External links

• LinkedIn, contains CV
• Oxfordseo.com, main work site
• {http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2010/07/18/the-invisible-medium-comics-studies-in-australia-kevin-patrick/}