What are the duties of comic book editors?

Question

Magazine editors write articles and columns (and other contents). But how about comic book editors? I always see names of editors in comics but never knew what they really do.
Do they get involved in drawing as well?

Answer 1

When someone becomes a comic book editor, he has to find a penciller, inker, colorist, letterer, and seperator. Then, he checks the job of each of them and corrects mistakes, and even has an assistant editor to help him out.
At least, thats what I heard, correct me if I'm wrong.

Answer 2

It is the same as magazine editors. They get involved in the process too. They give the authors and artists feedback on what to keep and what to get rid of. "The X-Men" were at first called "The Mutants", but the editor hated it, so Stan said, "The X-Men" and the editor loved it, but then Stan thought to himself. "How are people going to know what an X-Man is?"

Answer 3

The duties of a comic book editor/ publisher are varied, but these are the primary ones:

1) to make the continuity as confusing and non-existent as possible.

2) to detract from sales of hot titles by taking the good artists and writers off those assignments and waste their time and talent by putting them on to useless, unpopular titles.

3) To harass and intimidate the artists and writers by threatening them with dead lines, and telling them that they don't own their own creations, and that they owe their soul to the company store.

4) To pass off the blame for all this stupidity by claiming it was because the readers demanded it!

5) to promote insipid yes-men who can't write or draw to positions of high esteem, while passing over talented ones of integrity and vision.

They have other functions, but these are the primary ones.

Anybody for Punisher vs. Publisher...?

Answer 4

To kill creativity and "reinvent" the work of those who have gone before, therefore f*cking characters and continuity up.