Rik Offenberger – Editor in Chief of G-Man Comics & Co founder of First Comics News!

Originally published at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXs-m-vzm4I

Rik is a comic book journalist and publicity agent, an early utilizer of the Internet for distributing comics news, and the former public relations coordinator of Archie Comics. Rik started his career in comics as a retailer at Paper Hero Comics in Chino, California.

He began writing for the Comics Buyer’s Guide in March 1992. In October 1998, Rik founded Super Hero News, an Internet-based comics-news service using the Yahoo! listserver. Rik went from the Comics Buyer’s Guide to the British Borderline Comics Magazine, where he worked until it was discontinued. In 2004, he began producing trend-oriented interviews for Newsarama and by 2005 he was writing for both Newsarama and Comic Book Resources.

In December 2005, Rik succeeded Alex Segura as Public Relations Coördinator of Archie Comics and continued there until February 2016. In April 2010, Rik, Phil Latter, and Ric Croxton founded First Comics News, a web-based division of Super Hero News, covering comics, gaming, wrestling, and related pop-culture topics. Rik also served as a Judge for the 2022 Eisner Awards.

Rik is writing THE G-MAN COMICS CHRISTMAS SPECIAL, LYNX, SIMON N. KIRBY, THE AGENT, and SGT. FLAG

Rik is co-writing G-MAN COMICS 3-IN-1. G-MAN COMICS HANDBOOK, G-MEN UNITED, JUDAH “THE HAMMER” MACCABEE, THE HERO OF CHANUKAH

Visit https://g-man-comics.com/ to learn more G-Man Comics titles.

Visit https://www.firstcomicsnews.com/ to get your comic book related news! Now in the 30th year of bringing comic book news to fans, all kinds of article, interviews, and data on the comic book industry.

You can follow Rik on YouTube @rikoffenberger5637 on face book @RikOffenberger and @G-Man Comics, and instagram @g-man-comics