Jim Gibbons Email & Phone Number

Aquent x Adobe Studio

An award-winning editor-for-hire and freelance writer with years of experience in publishing, including work in print and digital comics, graphic novels, marketing, and journalism. For rates and availability, please contact me through my website: www.thejimgibbons.com

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon Area

A content marketing emissary focused on strategic direction and detail-oriented planning for internal and client content initiatives. Taking good content plans and making them great by proofing and improving messenging, narratives, and deliverables while ensuring they line up with persona research, buyer's journeys, and ideal customer profiles.

Portland, Oregon Area

Production manager for the editorial department responsible for scheduling, daily production management, and workflow oversight. Maintaining communication between editorial and all other departments to make sure requests are thorough and deadlines are met. Training and onboarding of new editorial hires, quality control of editorial content, and assessing.

Portland, Oregon Area

Crafting compelling copy — social posts, blogs, infographics, and more — for clients in the technology, food, and automotive industries. Editing all forms of long and short form copy for technology, food, and health care clients.

An editorial leader and project manager overseeing all levels of daily digital comics creation at the premiere location for mobile native sequential storytelling and entertainment.

Milwaukie, OR

Project manager overseeing all levels of creation for monthly comic books and graphic novels, including two major publishing lines: the Joss Whedon books (including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel & Faith, Serenity, and Dollhouse) and Guillermo del Toro's The Strain.

Portland, Oregon Area

Project manager overseeing all levels of creation for monthly comic books and graphic novels, including hiring freelancers, editing scripts and stories, providing quality control on art, enforcing deadlines, working with licensors on approvals, writing solicitation copy and marketing text, and managing an assistant editor.

Milwaukie, OR

Assisted the creation of comic books and graphic novels by proofing and editing text, script, and story, administrative paperwork, compiling reference material for freelancers, trafficking project materials, helping maintain quality control, enforcing deadlines, and writing marketing text.

Milwaukie, OR

Grew business by working within a Marketing team and identifying publicity opportunities for publishing projects with a primary focus on online media outlets. Developed and maintained positive professional relationships with over 75 press contacts. Pitched interviews and features to news outlets. Built and executed press campaigns. Coordinated internal.

Greater New York City Area

Brainstormed coverage plans for the comic, movie, and television industries. Coordinated freelance writers, wrote and copyedited content to produce the monthly publication Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture. Managed the letters column and book review section.

Greater New York City Area

Hired after successful internship to plan, write, edit, and post digital content, as well as manage a staff of in-house writers and freelancers for WizardUniverse.com, the site for the magazines Wizard, ToyFare and Anime Insider. On site coordination of web coverage for events like New York Comic Con, and remote coverage management of events like San Diego.

Performed interviews with comic book and entertainment industry talent, wrote articles for the magazine and website about comics, movies, and TV, and constructed features analyzing comics and entertainment.

Greater New York City Area

Reported on pop culture and comic book news, wrote book reviews, and interviewed comics and television industry professionals.

Columbia, Missouri Area

In 2007, worked as a features reporter covering local pop culture, arts events, and meetings for daily morning newspaper with circulation of 8,000. Also worked as a copy editor writing headlines, jump heads and cutlines, and proofed text, graphics, and infographics for AP style and any factual or spelling errors. In 2006, worked as and education reporter.

Bachelor Of Journalism, News Editorial

Activities and Societies: Maneater (Student Newspaper)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Classical Humanities

Activities and Societies: The Maneater (Student Newspaper)

Bachelor Of Arts, Classical Humanities

Activities and Societies: Ultimate Frisbee