10 Tips on Getting a job at a Comic Shop

1. Forget looking in the "Help Wanted" section of your local paper, it's not gonna happen. Instead check the obituaries and police blotter.

2. You can try walking in and asking, but chances are your gonna be talking to the owner who is there because he can't afford employees, or it's an employee will shoot you down right away fearing you are "out to get" his or her position.

3. Write a creative resume and doodle on it, then forget it at home because no one will ask for one.

4. Do not apply to the shop you buy comics at, in other words don't "Shit in your own backyard". Chances are those folks at the shop you frequent, they have opinions of you. Good or bad it's better to start with a clean slate.

5. Let's suppose you actually got an interview. DO NOT wear a comic themed t-shirt. Assuming that wearing what you want is the wrong approach, on the other hand show up in a tie and your gonna get made fun of, probably to your face and definitely when you leave.

6. Be a girl

7. Avoid droning on about your favorite comics, even if asked DO NOT elaborate on how much of a "Buffy" fan you are or how you think that "Aqua-man" could take the hulk in a fair fight.

8. Avoid trying to connect with the interviewer, he or she doesn't want to hear about how much of a travesty Fox's cancelation of "Firefly" was or how bad "League of Extraordinary Gentleman" is. Besides they already know.

9. Be good at something, and be reliable. Chances are if you have to count on your fingers and have trouble reading, your screwed. However even if you are a wiz with numbers and can tell the difference between "there", "their" and "they're" It not worth a lick of good if you can't get to work on time.

10. The most important tip for getting a job at a comic shop, the one and only, sure fire way. Open your own...

...and hire a girl.

~Lou