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Comic Book Jobs: Booth Babes & Craigslist




Posted by Tom Mason Categories: Conventions, Editorials,

BialienI make no secret of my love for Craigslist. Even with the loss of their adult services ads, it’s still a fun place to “shop” for career opportunities. Let’s see what’s out there:

Like to dress up? Getting ready to work on your Halloween costume for 2010? Don’t start yet, especially if you’re an inshape hottie. If you’re smart about it, you might be able to turn this year’s costume into a moneymaker for you.

For their 20th anniversary, a comic book store in Astoria, Queens, is looking for a “Lady Super Hero” who is “fit, friendly” and can provide her own costume.

The guy - and you just know it’s a guy - who’s in charge of the “lovely lady talent” says it’s a one-day only, five-hour shift from 3-8 PM and your duties will include: “Meet and greet customers, posing for pictures with customers if they have their own cameras, handing out fliers outside the store and be very nice and somewhat flirty to all customers.”

You provide your own costume - and can make that Halloween costume do double duty for you - and you’ll earn $150 for the shift. They’re taking applications now, though the job isn’t until February.

If you can’t wait that long, there’s the New York Comic Con coming up on October 8. The VC Imagination Factory is “looking for a young attractive female between the ages of 18-25 to dress as the female character Bellona” for the 3-day show.

Bellona is a peaceful bio-mechanical warrior alien who appears in the Bialien trilogy graphic novel.

It’s a booth babe job and they want “a female with personality, pretty smile and between the sizes of 0-7/8” who can fit into their costume and hand out fliers, CDs and brochures in front of the Bialien booth at con.

If you’re good enough at it, you could roll this over into becoming “the permanent Bellona and could represent future events with VC Imagination Factory.”

They provide the outfit and the red wig, or they’ll pick up the cost of your hair coloring. Pay is $50-$70 per day, depending on experience.

An unnamed Los Angeles Production Company is “looking for an illustrator/comic book/storyboard artist to draw/color about 40 sketch cards.”

They’ll put your work on the poster and end credits “of a film with a lot of potential exposure.” They have some very specific instructions, but they claim to be a paying gig.

The Privateers is a Los Angeles-based steampunk, pirates-in-space webseries that’s looking for a comic book artist to do character designs based on photographs. They are also paying.

And finally, I like this one, just because: A comic book artist in Los Angeles is looking for “a collaborator with similar sensibilities” to write so he can draw. His project is called Hannah Hearts Hitler, “a ‘romantic’ comedy of errors about a Danish girl who falls in love with (and then stalks) Hitler.”

Good luck, job seekers. Let me know if you get to work on the Hitler job. That could either be cool in a Monty Python kind of way, or just oh so wrong.

[Artwork: Cover to Bialian, © VC Imagination Factory]

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