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Image Comics has laid off four staff members as the financial effects of the coronavirus pandemic continue to come to the surface. Image had a staff of 24 prior to these layoffs.
“Letting someone go is always tough, but letting good people go due to circumstances like these is even harder,” Stephenson tells Newsarama. “Cuts become necessary at times like this, though, and with comics shops and bookstores alike being forced to suspend business for an indeterminate amount of time, it’s important to plan ahead while that’s still an option.”
“It doesn’t make it any easier or less sad, but in order to survive this crisis, we have to make changes in how we do business.”
Image Comics declined to identify which of their staff members were laid off, however an Image representative said “their roles were the ones hit first and hardest by the lack of new product shipping and the suspension of regular office business.”
Newsarama has independently confirmed one of the laid-off staffers to be graphic designer/production artist Carey Hall, who had been with the publisher for three years. Hall described her own exit on her LinkedIn profile as “Laid off due to Covid-19.”