Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Polygon is a digital publishing destination covering games, entertainment, comics, and culture. The company is seeking a freelance comic strip writer to create engaging features, rankings, lists, retrospectives, recommendations, and commentary about classic and contemporary comic strips, while researching their history and cultural impact and collaborating with editors to meet editorial, SEO, and audience goals.
Responsibilities
- Write engaging features, lists, rankings, retrospectives, recommendations, and opinion pieces focused on classic and contemporary comic strips
- Cover beloved strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, The Far Side, Garfield, and other major properties and creators
- Identify interesting angles around memorable strips, characters, running gags, storylines, creators, controversies, and milestones
- Explore the history and cultural impact of influential comic strips and the cartoonists behind them
- Monitor relevant anniversaries, creator news, reissues, collections, adaptations, and online conversations for timely content opportunities
- Develop article ideas that can appeal to both dedicated comic strip readers and Polygon's broader audience
- Work closely with editors to develop compelling content ideas and execute editorial priorities
- Work independently while consistently meeting deadlines
- Ensure timely publication of content aligned with SEO and audience engagement goals
- Follow editorial and formatting guidelines rigorously
Skills
- At least 2 years of experience in digital journalism, online publishing, entertainment, comics, culture writing, or a comparable writing environment
- Deep knowledge of comic strips, newspaper comics, and their creators
- Strong familiarity with major strips such as Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, The Far Side, Garfield, and others
- Ability to recognize what makes an individual strip, storyline, character, creator, or creative era interesting enough to build an article around
- Strong research skills and the ability to write authoritatively about both familiar and lesser-known aspects of comic strip history
- Ability to independently write and publish clean, accurate, engaging content on deadline
- A strong sense for headlines, rankings, hooks, and topics that will resonate with fans
- Familiarity with SEO and CMS tools is an asset
Benefits
- This is a paid freelance, remote position.
- Fully remote — write from wherever you’d like!
- Opportunities to pitch original ideas
- An amazing community of like-minded people to nerd-out with on a daily basis
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