Igor Goldkind
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Igor Goldkind was a marketing consultant who worked for a number of publishers, before moving into writing comics. He currently works in semantic web development and web-based marketing.
in the 1980s and then for Egmont Fleetway
in the 1990s as a marketing consultant and PR
marketing manager, and became well known for promoting the graphic novel publishing format, (a term he borrowed with his consent from Will Eisner), within the book trade and mainstream press. He was the first publicist to bring national press attention to Alan Moore's Watchmen graphic novel and Frank Miller's Dark Knight.
In England, Titan Books held the license to reprint strips from 2000 AD, including Judge Dredd, beginning in 1981, and Robo-Hunter, 1982. The company also published British collections of American graphic novels — including Swamp Thing, notable for being printed in black and white rather than in color as originally — and of British newspaper strips, including Modesty Blaise and Garth. Igor Goldkind was the marketing consultant who worked at Titan and moved to 2000 AD and used Will Eisner's term "graphic novel" as a way to help sell the trade paperbacks they were publishing.
In the period 1991-1993 he was a regular writer for 2000 AD, working on the ongoing Judge Hershey
character, as well as creating The Clown, a satire on the works of Neil Gaiman
, Goldkind referring to it as "The Sandman on laughing gas". However, after a year Goldkind left mainstream comics industry to set up new media company Artemis Communications that developed some of the early publishing websites, including www.rewardsgroup.co.uk, www.quote4mortgages.com and www.capricornresearch.com. Igor Goldkind later became an early evangelist for new digital media and the Internet as a marketing platform and coordinated some of the first publishing websites for Oxford University Press and Usborne Books, among others, under the company banners 'Artemis interactive' and then 'Signa Internet Strategies'. He currently consults on semantic web development for the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Environmental Institute and is writing a book on the subject entitled The Inference Engine. Recently he has returned to more creative writing, publishing poetry, short stories and a new comic series entitled Going Down the Cowley Road.
Biography
Igor Goldkind worked first for Titan BooksTitan Books
Titan Publishing Group is an independently owned publishing company, established in 1981. It is based at offices in London, England's Bankside area. The Books Division has two main areas of publishing: film & TV tie-ins/cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics reference/art titles. The...
in the 1980s and then for Egmont Fleetway
Fleetway
Fleetway, also known as Fleetway Publications and Fleetway Editions, was a UK publishing company which mainly produced comic magazines. For a time owned by IPC Media, they are now a division of Egmont Publishing....
in the 1990s as a marketing consultant and PR
Public relations
Public relations is the actions of a corporation, store, government, individual, etc., in promoting goodwill between itself and the public, the community, employees, customers, etc....
marketing manager, and became well known for promoting the graphic novel publishing format, (a term he borrowed with his consent from Will Eisner), within the book trade and mainstream press. He was the first publicist to bring national press attention to Alan Moore's Watchmen graphic novel and Frank Miller's Dark Knight.
In England, Titan Books held the license to reprint strips from 2000 AD, including Judge Dredd, beginning in 1981, and Robo-Hunter, 1982. The company also published British collections of American graphic novels — including Swamp Thing, notable for being printed in black and white rather than in color as originally — and of British newspaper strips, including Modesty Blaise and Garth. Igor Goldkind was the marketing consultant who worked at Titan and moved to 2000 AD and used Will Eisner's term "graphic novel" as a way to help sell the trade paperbacks they were publishing.
In the period 1991-1993 he was a regular writer for 2000 AD, working on the ongoing Judge Hershey
Judge Hershey
Judge Barbara Hershey is a fictional character in the Judge Dredd series that appears in British comic 2000 AD. For nearly two decades she regularly appeared as Dredd's sidekick, before being promoted to become his superior: she was chief judge for nine years...
character, as well as creating The Clown, a satire on the works of Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman
Neil Richard Gaiman born 10 November 1960)is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre and films. His notable works include the comic book series The Sandman and novels Stardust, American Gods, Coraline, and The Graveyard Book...
, Goldkind referring to it as "The Sandman on laughing gas". However, after a year Goldkind left mainstream comics industry to set up new media company Artemis Communications that developed some of the early publishing websites, including www.rewardsgroup.co.uk, www.quote4mortgages.com and www.capricornresearch.com. Igor Goldkind later became an early evangelist for new digital media and the Internet as a marketing platform and coordinated some of the first publishing websites for Oxford University Press and Usborne Books, among others, under the company banners 'Artemis interactive' and then 'Signa Internet Strategies'. He currently consults on semantic web development for the University of Oxford and the Stockholm Environmental Institute and is writing a book on the subject entitled The Inference Engine. Recently he has returned to more creative writing, publishing poetry, short stories and a new comic series entitled Going Down the Cowley Road.
External links
- LinkedIn, contains CV
- Oxfordseo.com, main work site
- {http://blogs.arts.unimelb.edu.au/refractory/2010/07/18/the-invisible-medium-comics-studies-in-australia-kevin-patrick/}