Currently he produces and hosts a YouTube channel about comics and comic-related issues, Geekview Tavern, which began releasing episodes in 2020.

[3] By 1984 Olbrich had moved to Connecticut, where he found work with the publisher Fantagraphics, among his duties being promotion manager of the company's news magazine The Comics Journal.

[5] Olbrich came up with the idea of naming the new award after the pioneering writer and artist Jack Kirby, and managed the process.

By this time Fantagraphics had moved to Thousand Oaks, California, and Olbrich was managing editor of the company's trade publication Amazing Heroes.

[9] Malibu Comics was launched in late 1986[11] by Olbrich and Tom Mason, with the financing of Scott Mitchell Rosenberg, at that time the operator of Sunrise Distribution.

Malibu began modestly with creator-owned black-and-white titles, but made a name for itself publishing a combination of new series and licensed properties such as the classic characters Tarzan and Sherlock Holmes, and popular TV, movie and video game tie-ins.

During that time, star creators Erik Larsen, Rob Liefeld, and Jim Valentino had dinner with Olbrich, who expressed interest in publishing comics created by them.

[27][28][29] In the middle of the next year, Olbrich,[3] along with fellow Malibu standard-bearers Mason and Chris Ulm, left the company.

[13] He operated the Dogg Works Agency (with Gary Guzzo)[2] from 2002 to 2005,[3] at which point he left to co-found The Pack, a packager at which he partnered with Brian Augustyn, Barbara Kesel, Lee Nordling, and Gordon Kent.