Victor Gorelick

Infobox Comics creator


caption = Victor Gorelick at the Archie Comics offices in 2008
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birthdate = birth date and age|1941|04|05
location = Brooklyn, New York
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nationality = American
area = Editor-in-Chief
schooling = The School of Industrial Art

Victor Gorelick is an American comic book, editor and executive. Currently the Editor-in-Chief of Archie Comics, the oldest humor comics company in the United States, he has worked for the company for over fifty years in a wide variety of roles.

Victor Gorelick joined Archie Comic as an art assistant, and has served as production coordinator, art director and now as Archie Comic's Editor-in-Chief. Mr. Gorelick has unique knowledge of every facet of the editorial process required to create and publish successful comics. He has done everything from writing to coloring, and everything between. He has highly regarded artistic skills and an eye for meticulous detail. He also has a well honed sense of the wholesome content of Archie Comics that has been the basis for the bond of trust built with readers by Archie Comics down through the years. He has worked closely with numerous companies designing various custom comic books. For example, he has overseen collaborations between Archie Comics and Kraft General Foods, Radio Shack and even the F.B.I.! He is a moving force on the Comic Magazine Association of America's Code Authority Guidelines Committee, a member of the Board of Advisors of the Joe Kubert School where many of today's comic artists first learned their craft, and he has taught cartooning as an instructor at the Kingsborough Community College in New York City.

References

Archie Comics
Archie Andrews
Betty Cooper
Veronica Lodge
Reggie Mantle and Forsythe "Jughead" Jones

External links

* [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/features/111764254062028.htm 2003 interview by Rik Offenberger]
* [http://forum.newsarama.com/showthread.php?t=95140 2006 Newsarma interview by Matt Brady]