Rik Offenberger

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Rik Offenberger
Born (1964-01-30) January 30, 1964 (age 59)
Norwalk, California
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Editor
Notable works
Archie Comics Public Relations Coordinator
Awards Inkwell Awards Above & Beyond Award 2023

Rik Offenberger (born January 30, 1964) is an American comic book journalist and publicity agent, an early utilizer of the Internet for distributing comics news, and the public relations coordinator of Archie Comics.

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Career

Offenberger started his career in comics as a retailer at Paper Hero Comics in Chino, California.[ citation needed ] He began writing for the Comics Buyer's Guide in March 1992, where he covered stories about retailers to help promote the comics shop. Following work on the Comics Buyer's Guide, he began working for the British Borderline Comics Magazine until it was discontinued. [1] This was followed by a move to the Internet, where he worked as an interviewer and senior feature editor at Silver Bullet Comic Books (now Comics Bulletin ), [2] conducting interviews with comics professionals. In 2004 he began producing trend-oriented interviews for Newsarama [3] [4] and by 2005 he was writing for both Newsarama and Comic Book Resources . [5]

In December 2005, Offenberger succeeded Alex Segura as Public Relations Coordinator of Archie Comics. [6] [7] [8]

Since 2012, Offenberger has been on the Nominating Committee of the Inkwell Awards.

In 2022, Offenberger was a judge for the Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards

In 2023, he was awarded the Inkwell Awards Above & Beyond Award for his ten years on its nomination committee. [9] [10]

Super Hero News

In October 1998, Offenberger founded Super Hero News, an Internet-based comics-news service utilizing the Yahoo! List server. [2] [11] While the service primarily distributes affiliate press releases, it's also been used as a vehicle for debate and contention by some of its members. [12]

First Comics News

In April, 2010, Offenberger, Phil Latter and Ric Croxton founded First Comics News, a web-based division of Super Hero News, covering comics, gaming, wrestling and related pop-culture topics. [11] The name is derived from one of the early independent comics publishers of the 1980s, First Comics. The site logo was also fashioned after the publisher's imprint trademark. [13] The site carries comics news, publisher solicitations, opinion columns, interviews, podcasts and reviews. Contributors include Beau Smith, Bob Almond, Holly Golightly, Ian Flynn, Michael Netzer, Mark Heike and cosplay actress Tanya Tate. The site maintains offices in Canada and Europe.

In January, 2011, First Comics News announced the winners of its first annual First Place Awards. [14] First Comics News itself was a 2012 Eagle Award nominee.[ citation needed ]

G-Man Comics

G-Man Comics, established June 22, 2019, is a guild style publisher featuring characters created by Rik Offenberger, Jim Burrows, and Eric N. Bennett, among others. Although each creator owns exclusive rights to their creation, they occupy a shared universe. The comic features traditional style superheroes.

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References

  1. ↑ Editorial introduction (March 2003). "Paul & Fernando's Weird Archie Adventure". Borderline Magazine.
  2. 1 2 "Paul Levitz: Living In An Amazing World". Comics Bulletin. August 20, 2003.
  3. ↑ MacDonald, Heidi (January 27, 2009). "Reactions to last week's doom stories: Diamond, MAD". Publishers Weekly The Beat. Archived from the original on March 31, 2012.
  4. ↑ "List of interviews at Newsarama". Newsarama.
  5. ↑ "List of interviews at Comic Book Resources". Comic Book Resources.
  6. ↑ Brent Frankenhoff (September 11, 2008). "Archie Redesigns its Logos". Comics Buyer's Guide.
  7. ↑ Schlussel, Debbie (January 8, 2007). "Archie Comics Responds to Schlussel: Wall Street Journal, Other Media Misreported Betty/Veronica Redo". Debbie Schlussel.
  8. ↑ Parkin, J.K. (December 27, 2006). "Riverdale's Extreme Makeover". Blog @ Newsarama.
  9. ↑ First Comics News - INKBLOTS: Inkwell Awards celebrates four ABOVE & BEYOND community volunteers
  10. ↑ Bob's Blog: Inkwell Awards celebrates four ABOVE & BEYOND community volunteers
  11. 1 2 Netzer, Michael (April 2, 2010). "Rik Offenberger's First Comics News". Michael Netzer Online Portal. Archived from the original on January 29, 2013.
  12. ↑ Parkin, J.K. (March 9, 2007). "Tit for tat on the Super Hero News list". Blog @ newsarama.
  13. ↑ Hauman], Glenn (July 21, 2011). "First Comics, First Second Books, First Comics News, and firstcomics.com — Confused Yet?". ComicMix.
  14. ↑ First Comics News (July 19, 2011). "2010 First Place Award Winners". First Comics News.
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