There’s something to be said about how children inspire us, from their approach to art with reckless abandon to their infectious laughter. And we hope to inspire them every day when we put books in their hands. Once in a while we find that we inspire grown-ups too, and this post is a thank you to the lovely people at Taxi who used their imaginations with reckless abandon to create promotional materials as a gift and surprise to us. Personally, I want to thank Vic Bath, Senior Art Director at Taxi, who’s been my best friend since we were children, for coming up with the concept for this overwhelming surprise. He worked with Will Ko, Designer at Taxi, and renowned commercial photographer Philip Rostron.

Thank you Vic, Will and Philip, from all of us here at Little Island Comics!

Krystle Tabujara – Little Island Comics

POSITION AVAILABLE:

Beguiling Library Services

The Beguiling is hiring! We’re looking for someone to join our Library Services team. Depending on the candidate, this could be a full-time or a part-time position.

What you’d be doing:

-managing existing customer accounts for school and public libraries
-selling comics to librarians in our two stores (The Beguiling and Little Island Comics) as well as at special events, trade shows, and via phone and email from our office
-delighting customers – both kids and adults – at Little Island Comics, both as part of our regular operations and for special children’s events
-working with our current systems and processes, and constantly considering ways these could improve
-acting as a resource and an advocate for comics as a key component of contemporary library collections
-some heavy lifting, general maintenance of a retail store and warehouse

What we’re looking for:

-at least a basic knowledge of contemporary comics (including manga, art/indie comics, bandes dessinées, webcomics, and superhero comics)
-sales (or similar/relevant customer service) experience
-candidates who are self-motivated and independent
-candidates who are flexible and very organized
-amazing communication and people skills

And we’d be super-impressed with the following (though these aren’t absolute requirements):

-the ability to speak, read, write, and/or understand French and/or Japanese
-extensive, specialized knowledge of manga
-experience working with kids

Do you think this job might be for you? Apply with an electronic copy of your résumé (we are not accepting paper résumés) and a cover email to andrew@beguiling.com, no later than Friday, August 10th. Please feel free to include in your e-mail any links to you online that you feel may be relevant. We will only be contacting the applicants with whom we’d like to schedule an interview.