It’s not often that you find a job listing from a comic book distributor floating around on the internets.

Diamond Comic Distributors in Timonium, Maryland is the largest comic book and graphic novel distributor, the sole survivor of the publisher exclusive wars of the mid-1990s. After many layoffs over the last couple of years, they’re now looking for a Pop Culture Sales Representative. Just having that title on my business card would make me a very happy guy. I’ve always wanted to sell “pop culture.”

Your primary focus in this entry level position will be expanding “sales of action figures, toys, and collectibles to retailers” and to “continue to promote DCD as a regular distribution source for these accounts that exist outside of the traditional comic book retail market.” 

It’s a lot of customer-service work – phone calling, hand-holding, account retention and expansion; trying to bring back old customers, keeping the current ones and finding new ones.

You’ll need a high school diploma, and hopefully have some college experience, and possibly some sales or even customer service experience. You have to be computer literate and outgoing, too (which are not always mutually exclusive), since your personality will be essential to driving sales. Customers and potential customers love a happy, upbeat salesman.

If that doesn’t sound like your kind of thing, are there, perhaps, other jobs at Diamond that might be right for you? You bet there are. Diamond is also looking for a Customer Service Representative which also requires a lot of phone work and problem-solving.

They also need an Administrative Assistant in Purchasing. It doesn’t involve a lot of sales calls but you will have to call various vendors and ask “Where’s the stuff I ordered and why isn’t it here yet?”

An added bonus not mentioned in any of their jobs is that you’ll probably get to see nearly every comic published by the major companies. I can only imagine what the Employee Lounge must look like. Oh, wait. I don’t have to imagine it. I’ve been in the building for meetings before.

Good luck, job seekers!

[Artwork: The logo for Diamond Comic Distributors]