Comments on: Contino leaves The Pulse; whither Comicon?

By: Matthew C. Kriner

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By: Mark Irwin

Mark Irwin — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 19:48:23 +0000

That’s sad to hear; Jen was a great supporter of inkers, and always checked in on me. I’ll miss her!

By: Lawson

Lawson — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:27:25 +0000

I’m really sorry to hear this.

As everyone else is saying, Jen has a relentlessly positive attitude about comics and the people who make them. I hope she lands on her feet somewhere in or around the comics industry — and soon.

By: Andrew Farago

Andrew Farago — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:15:15 +0000

Jen’s one of the most positive people I’ve ever come across in this business. It didn’t matter if she was interviewing a jaded 30-year comics veteran or some up-and-coming teenager promoting her first webcomic, she approached each interview and feature with the same unbridled enthusiasm.

Compare that with the tone of just about every other online reviewer or interviewer, and you realize just what a refreshing approach Jen has.

By: Citing economic downturn, The Pulse lets Jennifer Contino go | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:20:20 +0000

[...] co-owner Rick Veitch has confirmed reports emerging on Friday that writer Jennifer Contino has been let go by The Pulse after eight [...]

By: Rafael Kayanan

Rafael Kayanan — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:32:31 +0000

Count me in as someone who will miss Jen on the Pulse, and wish her well on a bright future.

By: James Kochalka

James Kochalka — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:51:13 +0000

Jen has always been sweet to me. Good luck, Jen!

By: Bring Back Zot

Bring Back Zot — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 14:59:51 +0000

As a regular comicon poster, I always enjoyed Jen’s work on the Pulse. Rick has indeed confirmed he couldn’t hang onto her during these challenging financial times. As with everyone else, I give her my best wishes and look forward to more of Jen’s work in the future.

By: Tori

Tori — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 07:06:26 +0000

Chiming in to say that Jen is great, she was really lovely to me as a dorky teen. God, haven’t spoken to her in ages.

I’m sure she’ll find work – any good comics site would be ridiculous not to snap her up.

By: Marvin mann

Marvin mann — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 02:16:41 +0000

Go Jen, indeed. One of the best.

By: DJ Coffman

DJ Coffman — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 00:47:44 +0000

Jen is great! I know she had alot of great story ideas of her own, maybe she should leave commentary behind and persue a passion she’s had bubbling inside! Go Jen!

By: mario boon

mario boon — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:34:24 +0000

Hmm, Heidi and Jen… surely there could be a connection to be made…

By: Len N. Wallace

Len N. Wallace — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 20:10:44 +0000

This really sucks on a personal level for me to hear. Jen Contino is and has been a very upstanding lady, as well as one of my very first real supporters within the comics industry as I’ve struggled to break in. We’ve not talked as much as we used too in the last few months and while I’ve noticed the content of The Pulse slipping, I don’t really think that can be blamed on Jen so much. Up until the recent stopping point, she’d kept a pretty steady stream of content on the site. I don’t want to speculate on why or how things came to this, with Jen being owed so much back pay because while I have my theories, I don’t want to stir up trouble for anyone on pure theory. I’ve followed Jen and her site since back before I even knew her personally back in the early ’00’s. As much as sites like Newsarama, CBR, and Bleeding Cool have risen to prominence today, Jen was running her site extremely well for a very, very long period of time without pandering and shilling too much for the big two. She even had Warren Ellis writing columns for her at one point or another. She clearly knows what she’s doing. Even in the latter days of The Pulse, she worked pretty hard to keep the ship afloat and was a big supporter of indie, small press, and up and coming comic guys like myself.

Back around ‘06 or ‘07, Jen and I got to know each other and she began showing an interest in my book Love Buzz, (Now published by Oni Press after all these years. *plug plug*) and she asked me if I was interested in running a column for the site to interview other indie and small press creators and give their work a bigger forum to show off on. Through that column, I made a lot of the friends and buisness contacts I’ve made to get me to where I am now, and I owe it all to Jen. If not for her support, I’d have most likely given up on comics years ago and gotten a “real” job. I’ll forever be in her debt and I know she’ll eventually land on her feet in whatever she does from here. I just wish like hell there was something I could do to for her that would come anywhere near repaying for her support.

She’s a tough lady though. I know she’ll land on her feet.

By: dave roman

dave roman — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 19:31:46 +0000

Best wishes to Jen! Hope she moves on to new great things!

By: Jimmie Robinson

Jimmie Robinson — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:10:00 +0000

Like Dirk said, Jen is one of the good people in the industry. I hope she gets scooped up by another news site (with money) because times are indeed very hard. The Pulse has always been on my list of comic sites and some of my books have been featured there. I hope Jen is doing okay.

Also, thanks for that tidbit of trivia in regard to The Beat’s name origin.
You’re right, The Beat and The Pulse make for great sister site names.