Okay. To those who don’t read comics and are unfamiliar with Wizard…Wizard is a comic book focused magazine that started in the 90’s. It is the only survivor of a small glut of magazines that took the heavy focus on the main stream (though it staked it’s claim on Image in it’s early days) comic industry during the “hayday of the 90’s”. they have a habit of making frat humor look sophisticated. In the most recent issue, I counted ten sexual references to female actresses and comic characters. That’s not including any references within articles, just captions next to images. It’s embarrassing to flip through Wizard. Especially when they do crap like this or this.
Over @ Guy LeCharles Gonzalez’s Comic Book Commentary, I saw they were still looking for a new Editor In Chief. I flippantly posted that they have been rejecting my resume. But it got me thinking. What would I do?
Well, aside from run it into the ground? Here is the Wizard magazine I propose. I get that to succeed there has to be a focus on the big two (DC and Marvel). But I would require a minimum of two articles on a smaller press project (Example, you can’t totally ignore Civil War, but this way, we also would get articles about stuff like Fun Home and American Born Chinese).
There would be a 1 cover year rule to all actors and actresses. Wizard can put Alba on the cover ONCE a year. So make it count-like the same month the new FF movie opens? Covers featuring someone other than the big two’s (From here on out MarDC) characters.
Guest Editorials. Every month I would include an editorial from one of the many talented columnists/bloggers out there (Yeah, these means I would be looking to get editorials from many of the folks in my link list).
I would also institute a one page article that has a focus on a new creator (writer or artist) who is not being given work by MarDC. This is not meant as a way to get them work, but rather to help gain them exposure they are not currently getting.
No more stupid frat humor. No more cheesecake shots. No more stupid “sexy” jokes. No more “humorous” moments like “Match the Butt”.
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February 20, 2007 at 8:52 pm
Ami Angelwings
YAY! I would get a chance to write in Wizard! XD I can write about how much I hate Wizard >.>;;
I picked up my first and only Wizard magazine when I was 13 o_o It was for a research project in school I was doing on Comics. It didn’t help me at all actually XDDD But they did have this huge article on Witchblade (which hadn’t come out at the time) and obsessing over how hawt she was XDDD
Everything about the magazine effectively turned me off of comics (and I was getting interested in it at the time) for almost 10 years xDDD
Mind you, this was also doing the 90s when even without Wizard, one step inside a comic store and a look at the shelves would have prolly turned me off too XDDD
I think it would be cool also to have “reimaginings” of stuff like I’ve been doing with the DCU, just to see what other ideas ppl have
And more serious, critical writing, stuff that doesn’t just talk about how sexy girls are and how great comics are XD Stuff that rly talks about issues in the comic world, and about plotlines and stuff 
Neways… you totally should get hired!!! It would be awesome
The first issue with you at the helm has to have the cover with your face on it tho! Like your banner you have to be all screamy and mad!
It’s cute ^-^
February 21, 2007 at 2:18 pm
Guy LeCharles Gonzalez
On the photo covers, you have to keep in mind Wizard’s mainstream newsstand presence, which is one of the reasons they offer a photo cover and an illustrated cover for each issue. Rather than limiting them to one/year, better to simply limit the overt cheescake factor, or at least balance it with an equal amount of beefcake. ie: Eva Mendes should have been on January’s cover (maybe she was; I don’t pay much attention to it anymore) and Gerard Butler should be on February’s cover.
February 21, 2007 at 3:12 pm
thomwade
Whoops, good point. I meant more limiting certain celebrities in comic related material to one year. I think they have had Alba and a couple others on the cover like every other issue some years. I am not opposed to the photo cover itself, and I think you reference to the newstand presence is a good point.
February 22, 2007 at 9:50 pm
Lisa
Wizard just picked the new EIC - a man who was the EIC for men’s magazine FHM. Looks like the sexy covers will continue.
February 23, 2007 at 8:16 pm
Rachel Edidin
And that’s a magazine I might actually buy.
If I ever get tired of editing comics, I wonder if it might be worth staging a coup and starting an independent comics mag…