Shelly Bond (born Roeberg) is an American comic book editor, known for her two decades at DC Comics' Vertigo (DC Comics) imprint, for which she was executive editor from 2013 to 2016.
Career
Bond became interested in comic books as a film student at Ithaca College when a screenwriting instructor used an issue of Peter Gross's Empire Lanes as an example of what film storyboards look like. After college she struggled to find a job in the film industry, and ended up instead working as an editorial assistant for editor Diana Schutz at the comics publisher Comico.[1] The 1989 E-Man special was the first title she edited.[2]
Three months after her move to Comico, the company declared bankruptcy and Schultz and editor-in-chief Bob Schreck left for Dark Horse Comics. Bond at 22 years of age, was left in charge of the editorial department where she worked with Mike Allred, Steven T. Seagle, Matt Wagner, and Bill Willingham at Comico, all of whom she would work with later at Vertigo.[2]
Personal life
She is married to artist Philip Bond, with whom she has a son.[19]
External links
References
- More To Come 335: Shelly Bond Interview Publishers Weekly, Publishers Weekly, 14 September 2008, retrieved 2 June 2023^
- DCE Editorial. What was the first...by Editor Shelly Bond DC Comics, 2011-08-17, retrieved 4 June 2022^
- Olly MacNamee. Kickstarting Comics: Talking With Shelly Bond About 'Fast Times In Comic Book Editing'