Call for Interns!
illustration by Paul du Coudray
As ILLUSTORIA continues to grow and flourish, we are on the look out for some helping hands! If you are a student living in the Bay Area, and have a love of (slash more like an obsession with) children's publishing, illustration and DIY culture, this might just be your dream internship.
We are now currently looking to fill two positions:
-Sales and Marketing Internship
-Editorial and Publicity Internship
Details:
-unpaid internship, school credit available
-part-time with flexible hours, approximately 4–6 hours/week
-6-month minimum duration
Our deadline for applications is October 3, 2017. Please see below for job descriptions and further details. Questions? Email them to hello@illustoria.com
Illustration by Elizabeth Haidle.
Sales and Marketing Internship
We are looking for a part-time intern to support sales outreach and order fulfillment. The ideal candidate is meticulously organized and detail-oriented, with a passion for children’s literature, illustration and DIY culture. Strong communication and writing skills, ability to multi-task and meet deadlines is essential.
Qualifications & Skills:
-College student or recent graduate
-2+ years of experience in administrative work
-Strong communication skills
-Detail oriented, strong ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
-In-depth knowledge of Excel, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+ (esp. Sheets)
-Basic knowledge of Squarespace and MailChimp
Responsibilities & Duties:
-Outreach to and cultivation of relationships with media, bloggers, potential stockists and partners
-Manage order fulfillment:
~Track & record magazine store orders + subscriptions in database
~Package for shipment
-Basic website & database maintenance
Please submit your resume, cover letter and 3 references to hello@illustoria.com.
Illustration by Elizabeth Haidle.
Editorial & Publicity Internship
We are looking for a part-time intern to support editorial content and social media outreach. The ideal candidate is passionate about children’s literature, illustration and DIY culture. Strong communication and writing skills, illustration and graphic design background, and ability to multi-task and meet deadlines is essential.
Qualifications & Skills:
-College student or recent graduate
-2+ years of experience in marketing + editorial work
-Strong communication skills
-Detail oriented, strong ability to multi-task and meet deadlines
-Strong background in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign
-Excellent writing skills
-In-depth knowledge of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+
Responsibilities & Duties:
-Write and coordinate weekly to bi-weekly engaging blog posts
-Social media outreach:
-support and create engaging social media content
-create engaging MailChimp newsletter
-monitor analytics on facebook + twitter
-Marketing + event support:
-assist in event planning
-promote events on social media + outreach to local media sources
-represent ILLUSTORIA at various promotional events
-Create and oversee marketing collateral such as posters, postcards, swag, etc.
-Potential to contribute editorial illustrations + stories
-Collaborate with team on growing media and partner relationships
Please submit your resume, cover letter, illustration/graphic design examples, website, and 3 references to hello@illustoria.com.
Oakland Book Festival 2017
Don't miss the Oakland Book Festival this Sunday, May 21st, 2017, from 11am–6pm! ILLUSTORIA will be there with plenty of magazines--including the just-out issue 4: The Grow Issue -- and lotsa swag including temp tattoos, stickers, coloring pages, and pins. We'll be at booth 22 in the kids' activity area, where you and your creative little ones can color, craft, make zines and create your own custom bookmarks with us. Meet Joanne and Mark, the publisher and co-founders of Illustoria and craft and chat kids' lit with our team. We would love to meet you!
Check out the impressive list of authors at this not-to-be-missed annual event for literary lovers in the heart of downtown Oakland:
There are events and talks galore so check out all the happenings here.
What: Oakland Book Festival
When: Sunday, May 21st, 2017
Time: 11am–6pm
Where: Oakland City Hall, Downtown Oakland
See you there!
Who We Are: Claire Astrow
illustration by Beth Haidle
Name: Claire Astrow
Location: Oakland, CA
Profession: Publishing Assistant at Illustoria Magazine
Claire holding the first issue of Illustoria at Skylight Books in Los Angeles.
Favorite Artist/Illustrator: My favorite all time illustrators are Jillian Tamaki, Daniel Clowes, and Tove Jansson. Currently, I’m obsessed with Phoebe Wall and Joohee Yoon. In the more general ‘artist’ category the list is always growing and growing, but my true heroes are Chris Johanson, Philip Guston, and Hope Gangloff.
Best book you’ve read in the past year: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Kids book you could read every night: Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold was my absolute favorite when I was a kid. I would get lost in the imaginative collage illustrations and pretend that I had the same super powers as Cassie Lightfoot to fly around New York City and have fabulous roof top parties with my family.
Tar Beach by Faith Ringgold
Best memory of being a kid: My family used to have a weekend ritual of loading up our car with bags of bagels and heading out for a picnic at the Marina del Rey beach. The bagels would always get half covered in sand but we would eat them anyways. Afterwards my sister and I would put on gobs of protective gear and get rollerskating lessons my mom, who was a 90s rollerskating fanatic.
Favorite weekend activity: Going to concerts and shows in SF, going on hikes, eating delicious food out in the Mission or Oakland’s Chinatown.
Song Currently on repeat: Jennifer Lara-I am in Love (so groovy)
Favorite meal: Pad thai, green curry, and sticky mango rice please!!!
Last time you made something with your hands: An EP album cover I made for my friend’s band, Dream Boat.
Loose Tooth EP cover for Dream Boat, by Claire Astrow
Fun fact about you: If I was born a boy, I would have been named Honus (after Honus Wagner) and my twin sister Lilly would have been named Cleon (Cleon Jones). I often fantasize about what Honus Gozonsky's life would have been like. Would he be ultra cool? Would he cope with all the name bullying? Would we be friends? The world will never know...
Drawing I made for my dad in 2015, Honus Wagner on the left and Cleon Jones on the right.
Who We Are: Genny McAuley
illustration by Agnes Lee
Name: Genny McAuley
Location: San Francisco, California
Profession: Book Peddler at Chronicle Books & florist
Genny with Grumpy Cat
Favorite artist/illustrator: Jon Stich & Oliver Jeffers
Best book you've read in the past year: The Keepers of the House by Shirley Ann Grau
Kids' book you could read every night: Weird Parents by Audrey Wood or Bears on Chairs by Shirley Parenteau
Best memory of being a kid: Going on road trips with my family. One time, we all went camping in Yosemite and after the first night, my mom and I decided we were too cold/the ground was no fun to sleep on so we left the boys in the woods and drove to my grandmother's house for the rest of the long weekend. I like camping now, but it was fun to fly by the seat of our pants and surprise my grandma with a visit from her girls!
Favorite weekend activity: Weeding the garden with my 18-month old nephew
Song currently on repeat: (this is embarassing) "Sorry" by Justin Beiber and (this isn't so embarassing) "Standing In the Shadow of Love" by The Four Tops
Genny dressed as an 80s hip hop cat (duh)
Favorite meal: A giant nicoise salad and chocolate coconut ice cream for dessert
Last time you made something with your hands: Yesterday! I put together many bouquets and hand-wrote notes for their recipients
Fun fact about you: My left eyebrow was born turning down at the end--it's grown up that way, too, and everything turned out all right!
Who We Are: Marc Weidenbaum
illustration by Agnes Lee
Name:
Marc Weidenbaum
Location:
The Richmond District, San Francisco, California
Profession:
writer/editor
Favorite artist/illustrator:
That's a tough call. I'm purposefully only listing here the names of people I've never worked with. For superhero comics it's been a tight race between Frank Quitely and Chris Bachalo for a long time, with David Aja and Adrian Alphona also prominently in the mix.
Chris Bachalo gets some young X-Men into surreal trouble.
In a more "literary comics" realm, right now I'm pretty fixated on Jillian Tamaki and Jason Shiga — Shiga especially as a visual-narrative thinker. Honestly, there are so many great artists working these days, I'd have a hard time keeping this list to under 50 names. In manga, I spend too much time lost in the work of Jiro Taniguchi and Yuichi Yokoyama. There's are so many I'd put as these folks' equals. We live in a Golden Age — oh, Golden Age is taken, so make that Platinum Age — of insanely fluid, original, varied comics art.
And speaking of surreal, here's a very dreamy image by Jillian Tamaki.
Best book you've read in the past year:
I don't think I've super-loved any of the books I've read in the past year. The best is probably Seveneves by Neal Stephenson. Starts off with a planet-wide catastrophe, and then speeds into the future.
Kids book you could read every night:
A Summery Saturday Morning by Margaret Mahy. Not all rhyming books are created equally. Some just rhyme, more as a matter of course than out of some sort of artistic purpose. Some rhyming books, as well, are more musical than others. This one inspires singing as much as reading. We've got a good little faux calypso (faulypso?) thing going with this household favorite.
Best memory of being a kid:
I grew up in the suburbs of New York City, out on Long Island. My favorite memory is something my parents used to do with us a lot, which was to go to Manhattan where we'd visit art galleries during the daytime and then head at night to Chinatown for dinner, usually Sichuan food. I've pretty much constructed my adult life so it takes my childhood memory and makes it a daily reality: a mix of artistic pursuits + spicy food. We also camped a lot when I was a kid, which is where this throwback photo of me originated:
Maybe this is from the summer when a Crater Lake ranger taught me the word "aesthetic."
Favorite weekend activity:
A packed day with my five-year-old, hitting museums and playgrounds, doing everything in the city by bus and foot.
Song currently on repeat:
"Saddest Continent on Earth" by Nonkeen (a band featuring keyboardist Nils Frahm) from a recent album called The Gamble.
Favorite meal:
If I have to choose one, dim sum.
Last time you made something with your hands:
Does it count that I've been constructing a modular synthesizer for the past year or so? Probably not. Frankly, I don't do this enough. I need to learn to solder.
You'd be amazed how much fun a 5-year-old has with these bleeps and bloops.
Fun fact about you:
As of this summer I will have lived in the Richmond District of San Francisco for 20 years (not counting the four I lived in New Orleans, from 1999-2003). I've lived in three homes here, each one closer and closer to the ocean.