Ignition Press has announced it has expanded its team with new key hires ahead of Comic-Con International: San Diego (SDCC). Max Marcil has joined as Senior Designer and Ian Shaughnessy has joined the company as Editor as of June.

Max Marcil joined Ignition Press as a Senior Designer in May and in his new role will support the Marketing and Editorial teams alongside Art Director Scott Newman. Max started his career in comics as the first creative team hire at Tapas Media. Max has provided series logos, book cover designs, animations, web designs, marketing graphics, and more to partners in comics and beyond. He’s worked with Skybound, StoryGrounds, and Kodama Tales, and has been a consistent backstage collaborator of prominent fantasy author TurtleMe, best known for The Beginning After The End, alongside many former Tapas colleagues. Max is looking forward to using his broad skillset to help push Ignition Press to new heights.

Ian Shaughnessy is beyond excited to join Ignition Press as Editor, reporting to Senior Editor Maggie Howell. He previously worked with Editor-in-Chief Jamie S. Rich during Rich’s tenure as Editor-in-Chief at Oni Press, which makes this a special full-circle moment for him. He’s thrilled to be working with Rich, Howell, Assistant Editor Nora Ornstein, and the rest of the publishing team on many of their upcoming projects. An academically trained expert in narrative particularly those by queer and marginalized storytellers—he cannot wait to further Ignition’s mission of getting quality stories by diverse creators in readers’ hands!

Marcil and Shaughnessy are the latest hires for Ignition Press after the company added Daniel Crary (Director of Sales), Steph Hocutt (Marketing Manager), Nicki Naff (Operations Manager), Nora Ornstein (Assistant Editor), and Taylor Stone (Executive Assistant) last year.