DianaSchutz

Diana Schutz is an award-winning editor who has worked in the comics industry for over thirty-five years.  Since 1990, she has been at Dark Horse Comics, where she is now a senior executive editor.  She is also an adjunct instructor of comics art history and criticism at Portland Community College, a published author of both comics and prose, and the first female to be inducted into the Canadian Comic Book Creator Hall of Fame. 

She is Frank Miller’s editor on Sin City and 300, Matt Wagner’s editor on Grendel, Stan Sakai’s editor on Usagi Yojimbo, Paul Chadwick’s editor on Concrete, and Larry Marder’s editor on Beanworld.  She is currently applying her knowledge of romance languages to edit international material in translation such as Blackad and The Manara Library.  She works or has worked with authors Michael Chabon, Neil Gaiman, Harvey Pekar, and Harlan Ellison, among others.  She was fortunate to have been Will Eisner’s Dark Horse editor until his death in 2005.