William Gatevackes – August 27, 2007
"Andy Schmidt is everything you want in a teacher. He explains everything you need to know in a way that is easy to understand yet does not insult your intelligence. I really learned a lot from him and would highly recommend him as a teacher."

--William Gatevackes
(Student in 2006 and professional writer)



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The Insider’s Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels
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Comics Experience’s very own Andy Schmidt tells everything you need to know about comic book story telling in this informative, easy to read, and fun book on comics storytelling. It features interviews and advice from many of the field’s top talents—Neal Adams, John Romita Jr. David Finch, Klaus Janson, Karl Kesel, Mike Perkins, Chris Sotomayor, Gene Ha, John Byrne, and many more!

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Writing for Comics with Peter David
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Successful comics writer Peter David provides easy-to-understand guidance for beginners, as well as seasoned advice for intermediate comics writers-- a must have for anyone who wants to write comics or graphic novels. 

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Comics & Sequential Art
By Will Eisner
This is it, folks! Will Eisner is the great grand-daddy of comics story telling! This book inspired me to head right into comics! A phenomenal book for artists!

Andy’s backlist!
Books Andy is particularly proud to have been involved in! Enjoy!

 

Editorial Work by Andy: 

Annihilation volumes 1-3 Hard Covers
Avengers: Disassembled
Captain America: The Chosen
Captain America: Omnibus
Civil War
Fantastic Four vols. 1-2 Imaginauts
Iron Man: Extremis
Madrox
The Pulse vols. 1-3 (featuring Spider-Man!)
House of M
JLA / Avengers
New Avengers vols. 1-4
Secret War
Spectacular Spider-Man vols. 2-4
Spider-Man Unlimited 
Thor: Disassembled
Union Jack
World War Hulk: X-Men
X-Men: Blinded by the Light
X-Men: Messiah Complex
X-Men: Supernovas
X-Factor vols. 1-4







Coming Soon:
Fallen Angel vol. 5
G.I. Joe vol. 1
G.I. Joe: Origins vol. 1
G.I. Joe: Cobra vol. 1
Ghostbusters: The Other Side
Sir Apropos of Nothing
Star Trek: Alien Spotlight
Star Trek: Countdown (the Official movie Prequel)

  
For Mature readers only:
Alias Omnibus (for mature audiences only!) 

  
Projects Written by Andy:
Marvel Comics Presents #8 (short story)
X-Men: Divided We Stand #2 (short story)
Creature Feature #1 (short story)
Challenger Deep #1-4


 

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