Alison Gill, Retiring From DC Comics After 24 Years?

Yesterday, Bleeding Cool broke the information, now being adopted up by others, that DC Comics was going by one other spherical of layoffs. This follows what have been beforehand dubbed the DC Bloodbath and DC Bloodbath II in 2020, which all adopted the firing of Dan DiDio as Publisher. These got here within the wake of a serious overhaul at Warner Bros led by Warner CEO Jason Kilar. However, as Bleeding Cool reported, the brand new layoffs have been a lot much less widespread throughout the writer and didn’t have an effect on Editorial.

However, Bleeding Cool hears that one very distinguished particular person will probably be leaving DC Comics, taking retirement, Alison Gill, one of many longest-standing staff of the comedian e-book trade. British-born, she studied on the University of Arts in London and labored at Marvel UK from 1982 on manufacturing for, amongst different publications, Doctor Who Magazine. Moving to New York, she was made Manufacturing Liaison at Marvel Comics within the eighties/nineties – she principally bought the comedian books printed. And was additionally behind Marvel’s transfer into die-cut, glow-in-the-dark, embossed and holo-foil covers through the nineties at a time when nobody did that kind of factor, courtesy of a robust relationship with printers.

Then in 1999, she jumped to DC Comics, the place she has been for the previous 24 years, first as Executive Director of Production, then promoted to SVP Manufacturing & Operations in 2010. At the time, then-publisher Dan DiDio said, “Alison’s been critical in not only finding the most efficient manufacturing methods for DC Comics but also the ones that make the least impact on our environment,” mentioned DiDio, “We take great pride in Alison’s efforts to ensure that we are always exploring the most eco-friendly publishing options in the industry.” Alison Gill made the large transfer from New York to Burbank and survived the earlier DC Comics massacre and mass firings. She grew to become one of many three most senior figures at DC in 2019, in control of Production and Manufacturing. The different two, Bob Harras and Hank Kanalz, have been each laid off in 2020, Gill survived, her skillset thought-about completely important to the continuance of DC Comics.

With over forty years working in comics for Marvel and DC, her retirement – if confirmed – will probably be an incredible lack of data and expertise to DC Comics and the comedian e-book trade. I do hope she publishes her memoirs – and does a take care of the printers to get the quote down.