Computer programs have it to defaul: you write, and then he corrects you all according to his discretion. Mette is why instead of why is corrects misspelled words, and replaces those who do not know. Here, it can happen that if you write "James Kirk" in a text, you find yourself writing a "James Cyrus" ...
But here we are talking about publishing the cartoon, so the figure editor (our protagonist) has a different role. More or less. Or rather, should have a different role, but I have some reasonable doubt that there really succeed. But first it's appropriate to make the point, so it is unclear who they are and what makes an editor.
Editor (called also the curator ) is an important figure, much more than you think outside dell'ambiante (And also inside, actually ...): is directing a comic book series, the one that 'assignments to the editor, make decisions, and do not answer the phone, ready to face any possible problem. If we were in a film editor is identical to our mr. Wolf Pulp Fiction "I'm mr. Wolf, I solve problems."
Our mr. Wolf does just that, to solve problems. Faces, find the solution, solve them. To take incazzature to fight when necessary, or delegate the roles where needed, to take credit when all things go well, and the blame when they go wrong (or the blame on others) . It 'paid to come up ulcer, beating his head against the wall, to speak out when necessary, paid to address the problems.
In a perfect world, the editor follows the series as if it were a daughter, sees them grow, and supervise their friendships as a stern father, by keeping cascamorto and ticks. It 's the real guardian of a series.
A good editor has written on the door of his office, laid on human blood (a designer), an old seafaring history of outstanding performance. This story explains what procedures must follow a sea captain who is on a moonless night, on a cargo with the load hook and the motor broke down during a storm, which pushes the boat against the rocky coast, with the lighthouse on the coast off the radio and in need of repair and the crew in a panic. What to do?
The answer is to avoid getting into a similar situation . Those who are able to follow the rules so simple?
One will say, but such problems can never occur during the processing of a comic book series. Oh, plenty, are always lurking, ready to ruin your day. Occasionally you may find that there is a gap of one month in a programming mistake to count the days (it happens, it happens), or designer does not respect the scenaggiatura (the "Interpretation") and you do not understand the sequence of events. Facing aspiring writers who say that this story is stolen from their subject, or see if that designer has copied some stickers from scratch, possibly before noticing the public. Or whether a designer has to be part of his work unknown and anonymous helper (never lie to your editor, if you have a helper you have to say without problems).
Then maybe a possibility that a designer cabin and soft puppet Pinocchio and Candlewick and to follow the scene of eater, and no longer gives signs of when, or who ill, or has to give birth prematurely (if it is a designer, it can happen) and for two months does not send tables, so his story should be postponed, and the continuity affanzùm that the writer had studied at the table. Or disappear from the face of the earth without giving signals, and without concluding his story serial (and continuity, etc.). Another (also an artist, have them / us to have problems ...) works hyper-fast, produces industrial quantities and prompt you to new pages of script in spite of having just handed over 300 pages that will be soon published between 5 months, because it know, has the mortgage on the villa in Monaco by pay, and someone has to tell him that maybe it can slow down (not ever, the designer will complain vigorously). Or you discover that a story in the General Custer has a wristwatch, or the Indians use a rotating barrel Gatling off-season, or the designer has designed a bullet that flies attached to the cartridge case, or a western saloon has shelves behind counter as an English pub of the '20s, the artist has hidden or encrypted messages on the posters, and all this must be discovered and corrected prior to publication, otherwise you feel like the figure of m *** that we do?
All this and much more, the impossible can happen and the imponderable at any time.
The cause of this has little importance. But if you experience some of the cases above, Mr. Wolf will find some solution, but it can work wonders (as if anyone can do it is because he has already ...): wrong ... has allowed such a thing happen. It was not alert. Has not budgeted. His ship had broken down, the wind pushing against the shore and was about to begin the night with no moon ... cul de sac, the French would say. impasse we say. And then it takes skill to put the pieces in the right places. Now let's
clear how many editors who have known in the world of comics are like mr. Wolf?
Try going to Lucca, when publishers bring their foreign editor, viewing patience with long lines of designers who offer their projects. Typically, these editors are all kind and polite, watch your designs, viewing the page and make you their compliments, but then you patiently explain why or wherefore serve him for what your product does not go very well. Provoking the ire of artists who are not used to feel criticize the short arms or big hands or eyes or all the same backgrounds and the lack of depth of field. Or just not used to having to do with a serious editor, that if you mess up drawing tells you clearly that "the first good" or "I like it" is not an acceptable justification. Editors who are able to understand even if you write, or see that you are incapable of writing a subject (or do not know what, happens, it happens), so do not start reading your "revolutionary screenplay written as those of Moore and Gaiman, the war between demons Japanese ska-punk and hip-hop underground "
"Then," asks the reader curious about "who does not work so it is a bad editor?"
Maybe, but maybe not. Who says that James has the truth in hand? Maybe he too was wrong.
And if the subject of our places, our editor was now a figure of archaic, antediluvian and no longer needed? Retired or retired to private life. Something to today we can all easily do without? Why, for example, can handle everything perfectly and the writer, while writing his usual 11 to 11 stories designers furious.
Forgive me, I understand that the world evolves, but I still think and believe that we will still need to have mr. Wolf. Although it is true that even in the classical figure of the editor you have the figures emerging delegate everything to everyone (including faults) and pretend to be indispensable, this has created a whole new school of "editor" (quotation marks are obligatory) I believe that this major. Or take their role lightly, if there is a problem you can always order a designer to do 100 pages in 30 days, give or take.
The new editor mushrooming, following this new path unexplored: that of the editor that delegation. Not s'incazza. Living peacefully, that does not solve the problems facing them because he (was not my fault, un'uragano, floods, locusts! ") But there is the same with very many, too many thing to do : counting fingers, go to fairs, dinners introfularsi Bonelli, delegate all the work of editing a study of Hong Kong, writing introductions, press conferences on comics, or write on the forums to deny the obvious when someone dares to point out a Error in this volume, published in translation without checking. A reply spades or hearts when you talk about when you look at the finger pointing at the moon.
O to correct James Kirk James Cyrus.
