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Jamie S. Rich
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Editor
Notable works
Cut My Hair, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her, It Girl and the Atomics, Love is Love
AwardsEisner Awards, 2017 - Best Anthology, Love is Love, DC Comics (with Marc Andreyko, Sarah Gaydos, Robert 'Bob' Harris, David Hedgecock, Maggie Howell, Chris Ryall)

Jamie S. Rich is an author of both prose and graphic novel fiction, a web series host, and editor of American comic books. He was formerly an Executive Editorial Director at IDW Publishing.[1]

Career

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As writer

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His first published work was the novel “Cut My Hair”, or originally published in 2000 and reprinted in 2002. Beginning in 2006 his first graphic novel, 12 Reasons Why I Love Her was released with art by Joëlle Jones. In the following years Rich has released subsequent works in both prose and graphic art formats in a variety of genres from Oni Press, as well as Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics. He has also written single-issue comic book stories for Marvel and DC Comics. Plus, at Image Comics, the 12 issue series It Girl & The Atomics.[2]

From the Gutters/Back to the Gutters

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In 2013, Rich launched the web series “From the Gutters”.[3] A series of nine long-form interviews with comics industry talent. The follow-up series, “Back to the Gutters”[4] ran for ten episodes starting in 2016.

Editorial

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His editorial career began in 1994 as Assistant Editor to Bob Shreck at Dark Horse Comics before becoming the editor for Mike Allred’s Madman Comics at Dark Horse before moving on to Oni Press in 1998. There, Rich took on the role of Editor in Chief, eventually leaving Oni in 2004.

After a period of time as a freelance writer, Rich joined DC Comics in 2015 as a Senior Editor for DC’s Vertigo imprint,[5] and became Group Editor for Vertigo and Young Animal in 2016.[6] Following that in 2018, he became Group Editor for the Batman and Justice League titles,[7] and eventually the Superman titles.

Rich left DC in 2021[8] to become Editor in Chief at Tapas Media, a short-format web comics publisher.[9]

In early 2022, he moved to IDW Publishing to become the publisher's current Executive Editorial Director.[10]

After a corporate restructuring in May 2023, Rich was promoted to Editor-In-Chief at IDW.[11]

He then left IDW for an unannounced role elsewhere.[12]

Published works

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Novels

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  • Cut My Hair (Crazyfish 2000[13]/Oni Press 2002)[14]
  • I Was Someone Dead (Oni Press 2005)[15]
  • Have You Seen the Horizon Lately? (Oni Press 2007)[16]

Graphic novels

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  • 12 Reasons Why I Love Her (Oni Press 2006)[17]
  • You Have Killed Me (Oni Press 2009)[18]
  • Spell Checkers Volume 1 (Oni Press 2010)[19]
  • Spell Checkers Volume 2: Sons of a Preacher Man (Oni Press 2011)[20]
  • Spell Checkers Volume 3: Careless Whisper (Oni Press 2013)[21]
  • A Boy and a Girl (Oni Press 2013)[22]
  • It Girl and the Atomics Volume 1 (Image 2013)[23]
  • It Girl and the Atomics Volume 2 (Image 2013)[24]
  • Madame Frankenstein (Oni Press 2014)[25]
  • Archer Coe - The Thousand Natural Shocks (Oni Press 2014)[26]
  • Ares & Aphrodite: Love Wars (Oni Press 2015)[27]
  • Lady Killer Volume 1 (Co-Written with series creator Joëlle Jones) (Dark Horse 2015)[28]
  • Archer Coe - The Way to Dusty Death (Oni Press 2018)[29]

Awards

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In 2017, Rich shared the Eisner Award for Best Anthology for editing the graphic novel Love is Love, a co-publishing collaboration between IDW and DC Comics. A tribute to the victims of the Orlando nightclub shooting.[30]

References

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  1. ^ Johnston, Rich (2013-04-15). "SCOOP: Jamie S. Rich, Editor-In-Chief of IDW, Quits For Something New". BleedingCool. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  2. ^ Alverson, Brigid (2013-04-15). "'It Girl & The Atomics' to end in July". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  3. ^ "From The Gutters - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  4. ^ "Back To The Gutters - YouTube". www.youtube.com. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  5. ^ Melrose, Kevin (2015-03-12). "Jamie S. Rich joins Vertigo as senior editor". CBR. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  6. ^ Reid |, Calvin. "DC Taps Pop Star Gerard Way to Launch New Comics Imprint". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
  7. ^ Terror, Jude (2018-04-07). "Jamie S. Rich, The New Batman Group Editor for DC Comics". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  8. ^ Johnston, Rich (2021-06-04). "DC Comics Group Editor Jamie S Rich Quits For New Opportunity". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  9. ^ Tantimedh, Adi (2021-06-16). "Tapas Media Gains Jamie S. Rich as New Editor-in-Chief". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  10. ^ Johnston, Rich (2022-05-09). "Jamie S Rich Quits Tapas Media EIC To Be IDW Exec Editorial Director". Bleeding Cool News And Rumors. Retrieved 2022-11-20.
  11. ^ Johnston, Rich (2023-05-03). "IDW Confirm EIC Jamie S Rich, Co-Publishers Mark Doyle, Tara McCrillis". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved 2023-06-18.
  12. ^ Johnston, Rich (2024-06-18). "SCOOP: Jamie S. Rich, Editor-In-Chief of IDW, Quits For Something New". BleedingCool. Retrieved 2024-06-18.
  13. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2000). Cut my hair. Burbank, Calif.: Crazyfish/MJ-12. ISBN 0-9700387-0-4. OCLC 45040521.
  14. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2002). Cut my hair (1st Oni Press ed.). Portland, Or.: Oni Press. ISBN 0-9700387-0-4. OCLC 50776636.
  15. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2005). I was someone dead. Andi Watson (1st ed.). Portland, Or.: Oni Press. ISBN 1-932664-26-2. OCLC 62212712.
  16. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2007). Have you seen the horizon lately? (1st ed.). Portland, Or.: Oni Press. ISBN 978-1-932664-73-7. OCLC 156817639.
  17. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2016). 12 reasons why I love her. Joëlle Jones, Doug Sherwood (Tenth anniversary ed.). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-1-62010-273-2. OCLC 921869153.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  18. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2009). You have killed me. Joëlle Jones (1st ed.). Portland, OR: Oni Press. ISBN 978-1-932664-88-1. OCLC 177018546.
  19. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2010). Spell checkers. Vol. 1. Nicolas Hitori de, Joëlle Jones (1st ed.). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-1-934964-32-3. OCLC 430841067.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  20. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2010). Spell checkers. Nicolas Hitori de, Joëlle Jones, Kimball Davis, Doug Sherwood, Keith Wood, Jill Beaton (1st ed.). Portland, OR: Oni Press. ISBN 978-1-934964-32-3. OCLC 642018917.
  21. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2013). Spell checkers. Volume 3, Careless whisper. Nicolas Hitori de, Joëlle Jones (1st ed.). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-1-62010-094-3. OCLC 882938400.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  22. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2013). A boy & a girl. Natalie Nourigat (1st ed.). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-1-62010-089-9. OCLC 864752997.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  23. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2013). It Girl! and the Atomics. Round one, Dark streets, Snap City. Mike Norton, Chynna Clugston-Flores, Mike Allred, Laura Allred. Berkeley, Calif. ISBN 978-1-60706-725-2. OCLC 835972766.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  24. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2013). It Girl! and the Atomics. Round two, The world is flat. Mike Norton, Chynna Clugston-Flores, Natalie Nourigat, Allen Passalaqua, Crank!. Berkeley, Calif. ISBN 978-1-60706-791-7. OCLC 862823802.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  25. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2015). Madame Frankenstein : or the feminine monstrosity. Megan Levens, Crank!, Steven Birch, Joëlle Jones, Nick Filardi. Berkeley, CA. ISBN 978-1-63215-197-1. OCLC 891616725.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  26. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2014). Archer Coe & the thousand natural shocks. Dan Christensen (1st ed.). Portland, Oregon. ISBN 978-1-62010-121-6. OCLC 870984771.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  27. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2015). Ares & Aphrodite : love wars. Megan Levens, Crank!, Jill Beaton, Robin Herrera (1st ed.). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-1-62010-208-4. OCLC 896861537.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  28. ^ Jones, Joëlle (2015). Lady killer. Volume 1. Jamie S. Rich, Laura Allred, Crank! (1st ed.). Milwaukee, OR. ISBN 978-1-61655-757-7. OCLC 921164422.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  29. ^ Rich, Jamie S. (2018). Archer Coe & the way to dusty death. Dan Christensen (1st ed.). Portland, OR. ISBN 978-1-62010-505-4. OCLC 1046055954.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  30. ^ "Here Are Your 2017 Eisner Awards Winners". Comics. Retrieved 2022-11-21.
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