Get Your Applications In Now
Now this is how I know the economy isn’t really imploding: independent webcomic creator Meredith Gran’s business is too successful to handle herself:
It’s difficult for me to delegate tasks to others, but I believe the time has come to find an intern.
I am looking for someone who is hard-working, reliable, knowledgeable with computers, and is near/can travel to Easthampton, Massachusetts.
My ideal intern would be either an art student or a budding artist, who’d like a hands-on look at the business of webcomics and self-publishing.
This is not a paid internship, as much as I’d like to be able to afford that right now. I’m happy to do the necessary paperwork to give you college credit, and I will gladly buy my interns lunch and take them out for drinks once in a while. But if you need a salary to live, I’d like to be quite clear that I am not your gal.
Honestly, this is a situation that I’m surprised I don’t see more often in webcomics. Sure, there was The Great Halfpixel Intern Fight of Aught-Eight, but where are the others? Just about every webcomics creator lives within spitting distance of a college … just about every college has some kind of internship program … there’s all kinds of departments that might apply to webcomics interning (art, business, publishing, and creative writing come immediately to mind). Just as long as the intern isn’t going crazy with the Uline catalog, abusing the Endicia account, or calling their boyfriend/girlfriend halfway ’round the world for eight hours at a stretch, there’s not much downside.
Contact info for Ms Gran may be found at the link. If you’re not in the western Massachusetts area, consider that you’ve probably got a webcomicker near by who may be looking for the sort of go-getter that approaches with a stack of college credit paperwork in hand and says, I’m reliable and trustworthy. Sign here, and I can work for you in exchange for coffee and bathroom privileges starting next week. And if you put in the request to the MBA program, I know that there’s still 14 students looking for case studies that will do an analysis of your business needs and opportunities for free.”
Fortunately for Ms Gran, the Happy Valley is full of college students and former college students who just can’t tear themselves away.
By Nathan Williams on 11.25.08 5:06 pm
To have an intern, do you have to have a workspace where more than one person can comfortably turn around between the precarious stacks of merchandise and shipping supplies? I’m worried that that’ll disqualify me.
By malki ! on 11.25.08 6:14 pm
Meredith’s in Western Mass? Huh, the place is CRAWLING with college kids. Send that announcement over to the art departments of some of the campuses, and trust me, there will be responses.
By Sean C on 11.25.08 8:22 pm
Coffee and bathroom breaks? If I wasn’t working, I’d do it!
By Kris Straub on 11.25.08 9:06 pm
[…] Speaking of which, I am amazed at how long it takes to create a comic update since it only takes ten seconds to read it. It makes me think there might be some merit to doing things this way (to some degree.) It might also help if you could ‘hire’ an intern. […]
By Strip News | ArtPatient.com on 11.28.08 9:01 am
Great move! I’d love to hear how it turns out.
I went to an art college to seek an intern once, but what I figured out is that I really need a business school student.
By Stephanie McMillan on 11.28.08 12:16 pm
[…] Speaking of which, I am amazed at how long it takes to create a comic update since it only takes ten seconds to read it. It makes me think there might be some merit to doing things this way (to some degree.) It might also help if you could ‘hire’ an intern. […]
By Strip News | Strip News | ArtPatient | ArtPatient on 01.31.11 6:07 am
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