That’s right … Chris Wisnia’s Resume!
This week, we offer a real treat to fans! We hope it will help all you aspiring comics professionals, not only to see what a resume should look like if you have no actual experience or qualifications, but also as inspiration to fill out your own resumes!
Before our own artistic hack, Chris Wisnia, began his “serious” (i.e. “actually published”) professional comics career, he spent many years waiting in many portfolio review lines, and sending a lot of packages to publishers, and never getting any work! Below is – NO JOKE! – an exact duplicate of the resume he submitted over and over for these endeavors!
Personally, in hindsight, we don’t recommend you aspiring comics people try using this technique for youselves, as Chris never once heard back from an editor he sent this resume to! They never called or wrote to share how amusing they found this resume! Study it closely, and tomorrow we’ll post Chris’s current resume . . . for comparitive purposes! -Rob!
_RESUME_ (minimized to one page)
COMICS RELATED EDUCATION:
N/A (Bachelor of Arts in studio art, U.C. Davis, Class of 1995)
PROFESSIONAL, NON-COMICS WORK:
1999-Present Guitar Instructor, Private Lessons, Davis CA
1997-2000 Store Manager and Head Picture Framer, Jeff’s Objet D’Art, Davis CA
MONTHLY WORK FOR MARVEL
2002 none
2001 none
1999 none
LIMITED SERIES OR ONE SHOT PROJECTS FOR MARVEL
1997 none
Feb-July 1995 none
1972 born May 13th
MONTHLY WORK FOR DC
1962-1992 no work for DC
FILL-IN ISSUES, ANTHOLOGY AND BACK-UP STORIES FOR DC
Upcoming 2003 no plans at this time
1492 none
WORK FOR INDEPENDENT COMIC COMPANIES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO FREE-LANCE PLOTTING, SCRIPTING, AND GHOST WRITING
1997-present nothing
ADDITIONAL TRAINING, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, ETC
2001 Told Mike Allred his art is cool at San Diego Con
1984 Read “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way”
RELATED EXPERIENCE
1998 Re-read “How to Draw Comics the Marvel Way”