D&Q sends out a personnel related press release and is thoughtful enough to include a Julie Doucet panel to illustrate it!

Effective immediately, Jamie Salomon has been hired as Controller, announced Chris Oliveros, Editor-In-Chief and Publisher, Drawn & Quarterly. Salomon has overseen D+Q’s finances for the past five years while employed at the chartered accounting firm Rabinovitch Luciano in Montreal. At D+Q, Salomon will direct all financial reporting and accounting operations.

“As D+Q has grown from a comic book company to a book company in the past decade, our financial reporting needs have increased. Jamie has been our most valuable behind-the-scenes player in this process,” said Oliveros. “Furthermore, his genuine appreciation and knowledge of the comic book medium makes him an integral part of the D+Q team in understanding why we do what we do.”

Salomon graduated from McGill University with a Bachelors of Commerce. He was the publisher and editor of Copacetic Comics & Crunchy Comics, a freelance tax accountant, and translation consultant.

Drawn & Quarterly, the critically acclaimed Montreal-based comic book publisher, attracts readers from around the world. The company’s cartoonists­Lynda Barry, Chester Brown, Guy Delisle, Tove Jansson, Joe Sacco, Seth, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware and others­are among the best in graphic novel literature. D+Q is distributed by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in the United States, Raincoast Books in Canada and PGUK in the United Kingdom.