Her Story
About Allyson
Allyson Gronowitz is a Senior Editor at Oni Press and an experienced editorial leader working across comics publishing, narrative development, and creative project management. Based in Los Angeles, she is known for her editorial vision and her ability to support bold, boundary-pushing storytelling while cultivating both emerging and established creators. In her current role, she runs the EC Comics revival imprint, overseeing long-term publishing strategy and managing the development and production of complex monthly anthology projects that span multiple stories and creative teams. Her work is defined by a balance of high-level narrative direction, talent development, and hands-on editorial execution. Her journey in comics began after graduate school, when she was exploring journalism-related pop culture roles and began freelancing for a comics editor doing project management and editorial work. That experience led her to fall in love with the comics medium, followed by a 9-month temporary position at DC Comics that served as an intensive editorial training ground. Working alongside established editors and industry leaders gave her a strong foundation in the craft and solidified her path in publishing. From there, she joined BOOM! Studios, where she started as an assistant editor and progressed over six years to associate editor and then editor, working on both original and licensed properties while developing deep experience in managing multiple simultaneous projects. At BOOM! Studios, Allyson worked under her current mentor, who is now Editor-in-Chief at Oni Press, and that professional relationship became a defining influence in her career trajectory. When the opportunity arose to reunite, she joined Oni Press over a year and a half ago, where she now leads the EC Comics imprint. Across her editorial career, she has developed a strong ability to shape story direction, refine character arcs, and align narrative themes with audience impact. Drawing from her academic background in journalism at USC Annenberg and English and Philosophy at Barnard College, she applies a deeply analytical yet creative approach to storytelling, focusing not only on how stories are constructed, but on how they resonate and evolve to achieve a clear narrative purpose.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Allyson
01What do you attribute your success to?
Definitely having mentors and editors above me and that I work with who believe in me and have confidence in my work. I think that, for me, was a huge driver of my success before I even realized that I was doing good work. I was always surprised whenever I would get a promotion or company-wide recognition, and so I think that was fully dependent on other people standing up for me and propping me up and giving me the space and the support to succeed in the way that I have. That's a huge part of it. And then, when I sit back and think about what my strengths are, it also comes down to clear-eyed communication, both with coworkers and outside talent / creators, and trusting my gut in terms of storytelling instincts and narrative development.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say it's important to be driven and focused, but also open-minded. Take advantage of opportunities that come your way, even if you're not sure you want to pursue that particular path. Another important bit of advice is to seek out mentorship. Mentorship has been a huge part of the most positive elements of my experience; working with a mentor, specifically a female mentor. My current manager at Oni, the company's Editor-in-Chief, is someone who I worked under at my previous company until she left, and at that point my career path became a matter of when I was going to get to work with her again. So I think it's important to seek people out that you can rely on, emulate, and get advice from. Another important element in all areas of work is to always be empathetic and understanding. A big part of our industry that people don't realize is that it's basically 80% communication; whether that's part of the project managing or managing freelancers that you work with, or your coworkers, or anyone else in the industry. I think it's just so important to begin every conversation with an open mind, an open heart, and understand that everyone is their own person and going through their own thing. Especially because my job is fully remote, which makes that especially challenging, because communicating via email or chat is not as intuitive as having a face-to-face conversation, so I think it's more important than ever that we approach people with empathy.
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