{"id":47948,"date":"2018-03-08T12:03:56","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T20:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47948"},"modified":"2018-04-13T13:35:20","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T20:35:20","slug":"ryall-leaving-idw-publishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2018\/03\/ryall-leaving-idw-publishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryall Leaving IDW Publishing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Chris Ryall<\/strong>, Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-chief at <em>IDW Publishing<\/em>, has stepped down from both positions.<\/p>\n<p>Ryall joined<em> IDW Publishing<\/em> in June 2004 and helped propel the company to the &#8220;fifth-largest publisher in the North American comic book market.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a farewell email to <em>IDW<\/em> staff, he said, &#8220;Through it all \u2014 through the deadline craziness, market fluctuations, assorted business challenges, social-media storms, new faces, new projects, and new challenges \u2014 it&#8217;s all served as a constant reminder how lucky I&#8217;ve been to contribute to this industry that I love so much. And I plan to keep making contributions outside these walls. But for now, I&#8217;m stepping aside to take a break, get off the never-ending-deadline train and see what new challenge makes the most sense as my next move. It might seem short at times, but fourteen years is a long time to do anything \u2014 I&#8217;ve certainly never done anything else in my life for this amount of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been trying to reply to the outpouring of well-wishes and amazing sentiments from so many of you but I&#8217;m finding I can&#8217;t keep up with all of them and I&#8217;m pretty spent after a very emotional day,&#8221; said Ryall, via his <em>Facebook<\/em> account. &#8220;Hard to leave such amazing people as there are at <em>IDW<\/em> and throughout the creative community. I&#8217;ll soon try to properly sum up how it feels leaving <em>IDW<\/em> after fourteen years but for now, I&#8217;m going to shut it all off and just breathe a little. But thank you all&#8211;I wish I&#8217;d had some way and enough time to convey to everyone I&#8217;ve worked with who&#8217;s meant so much to me and made such an indelible mark on me how special all of this time has been. But know that it&#8217;s implied and deeply felt.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Ryall, Chief Creative Officer and Editor-in-chief at IDW Publishing, has stepped down from both&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2971],"tags":[2525,2715,2942],"class_list":["post-47948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine","tag-comics","tag-idw-publishing","tag-ryall"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/RyallIDWPublishing030818.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/magazine\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Magazine<\/a>","tag_info":"Magazine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47950,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47948\/revisions\/47950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}