As we reported again in March, DC Comics has accomplished an extended deliberate (pre-Discovery) transfer to workplace areas in a brand new Frank Gehry designed constructing, referred to as the Second Century Venture, situated in Burbank, not removed from the primary studio. The transfer was signaled by non-public social media alerts, however Writer-CCO Jim Lee made it Instagram official with an upbeat submit.
He wrote:
First day again within the workplace to work since March 2020—simply in time as we commemorate the brand new Second Century constructing designed by Frank Gehry. This new gleaming edifice off the 134 freeway in Burbank, California will home a lot of Warner Bros Discovery divisions beneath one roof (together with after all DC)!
The images present a nod to DC’s major enterprise – the making of superhero themed comics – by way of a wall adorned with motion figures.
The area, like most fashionable ones, is an open plan, shared work area, though it does appear to have an workplace or two, with (as we predicted) a drafting board.
Props to Lee for placing an excellent face on all this. Personal social media posts that scrolled on our feed had been much more elegiac about DC’s former places of work at The Pointe, with Group Editor Jim Chadwick placing his personal spin on shifting out:
Farewell to John Constantine. My workplace has been behind these doorways since 2015. Yesterday was DC Comics’ final official day at The Pointe in Burbank. New places of work open subsequent week, just some blocks away. pic.twitter.com/S7zEfxC2ah
— Jim In These Tough Occasions Chadwick (@jimchadwick1217) June 9, 2022
Former DC editor Andy Khouri, additionally raised a glass to the Pointe:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CemIFGAvLBv/?hl=en
He wrote:
DC Comics is saying goodbye to its places of work of the final seven-eight years, however parts of the corporate have been there even longer. DC is shifting into an especially costly and big new area close by, together with a number of different divisions of Warner Bros. The good work will proceed. However for these of us who labored there, The Pointe will probably be unforgettable. It’s the place I met a few of my greatest buddies and produced my most rewarding work. All the things I’ve completed since saying goodbye again in 2020, and every part I’ll ever do professionally for the remainder of my life, has and can come from the abilities and relationships I cast in that stunning workplace stuffed with gifted and galvanizing folks.
Insert unhappy face emoji right here.
As we wrote in March, again in 2015 DC’s Pointe places of work had been the product of an formidable imaginative and prescient, objective constructed for the enterprise of constructing superhero comics because it was then seen, an important a part of all the way forward for Warner Media, with their heroes going toe to toe with the MCU. However that was two homeowners in the past. Lots has modified on the lot. Simply the place DC Comics stands within the new Warner Bros. Discovery media conglomerate – and its mission to chop $3 billion in prices – is worthy of a submit all its personal.
The brand new constructing is kind of lovely on the surface – yay verily a real gleaming edifice! – and can home quite a few WBD items, together with animation, so it isn’t fairly the dumping floor some have urged. But it surely’s additionally generic, with desks assigned at random. I suppose everybody who works there should now be a Jedi and keep away from attachment to issues.
On the face of it, such an association appears antithetical to the quirky wants of the creative strategy of comics making, however that’s the world we reside in now – and open desk places of work are the norm not a rarity.
I do mourn the concept of touring the colourful places of work of a comic book e book writer – a legendary and memorable occasion that holds a particular place in lots of autobiographies – however then, what number of comics publishers ANYWHERE even have places of work any extra? The pandemic has made a lot of them go solely digital.
Anyway, we’ll finish this on a cheerful observe with this tweet from advertising supervisor Albert Ching – on the plus aspect, persons are coming to the workplace once more, in order that’s form of cool.
at the moment was the primary day for DC in our new workplace constructing and I noticed a bunch of parents for the primary time shortly and in a pair cases for the primary time in particular person ever. it was good!! right here’s a pic of some cashews I ate pic.twitter.com/PxYlCqUOQf
— Albert Ching (@albertxii) June 14, 2022
And there are tasty snacks. Life goes on.
