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January 7, 2025 / January 7, 2025 by Andy Schmidt
Great question! It’s because Young Adult and Middle Grade comics and graphic novels is the fastest growing segment of the comic book market! More books in these two categories are getting read and making new fans than in any other segment, and it’s not even close! That’s why we’re offering a brand new course on Young Adult and Middle Grade comics and graphic novels: Advanced YA and MG Graphic Novels: Pitching and Publishing is here! And you can get it this week for 30% off (or bundle it with the Intro course–also for 30% off together). If you’re a comic creator and you’re not paying attention to these demographics, then you’re not looking at the industry as a whole–and I’m not saying that you have to, but I hear a lot of people talking about the death of comics, but it’s just not true. Comics are growing–they may just not be the comics that you grew up with. When I was a kid, comics meant “super hero comics.” But nowadays, super heroes are dwarfed by middle grade, YA, manga, and webcomics. They may just be the smallest segment as opposed to the juggernaut they once were. If you’re a super hero fan, please don’t get upset by this. A new reader for manga or YA doesn’t mean a lost reader for super heroes. All of this has been additive to the comics market over the last thirty years. And while, from a storytelling standpoint, the foundational elements are basically the same, the execution and style […]
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December 3, 2024 / December 3, 2024 by Andy Schmidt | 1 Comment on How to be a Comics Professional
This week, for the first time, we’re offering a course specifically on what I call “The Intangibles” or working in comics. You can check out the course offering for yourself. It’s called “Professional Best Practices: The Art of Being a Working Comic Creator” and it’s on sale this week for 30% off.
November 26, 2024 / November 26, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
We are putting all of our current On-Demand courses on sale this “Black Friday” so if you want to learn about making comics or how to be a professional creator, don’t miss out on this incredible opportunity.
November 14, 2024 / November 14, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
Comics Experience is delighted to bring a few of our live courses back right at the start of 2025.
November 5, 2024 / November 6, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
There are signs of comics struggling in the direct market. A lot of shops have been closing in the last couple of years and recent months. Fewer buyers of comics, means fewer fans getting comics, and lower sales for publishers, making it more difficult to create profitable comics. But if only there were some other market that could help a publisher succeed. Well, it turns out that there is. There are a couple of other markets actually, including Manga which has exploded and the one I’m going to talk about now – YOUNG ADULT GRAPHIC NOVELS.
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October 30, 2024 / November 6, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
I won’t always do this, but we’ve been tinkering and building up our Comics Experience Community Pro program for the last several months and there are some really exciting additions, improvements, and features that I’m really stoked to be a part of! And now you’re going to learn about them, not because I’m trying to sell you something, but because they’re genuinely very cool.
October 15, 2024 / November 6, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
Two weeks ago, I talked about how Tom Brevoort was a mentor of mine. This week we’re going to talk about another one–Chris Sotomayor. And I’m so pleased that Soto and I met in 2002 and are still working together to this day.
October 1, 2024 / November 6, 2024 by Andy Schmidt | 1 Comment on My Comics Mentors
In 2002, I was hired into the office of Tom Brevoort, then senior editor and now Vice President of Publishing. I worked directly for Tom from 2002 until I left his office in 2005. And those were certainly my most formative years in comics. I can’t begin to list all of the useful and life-altering things I learned from Tom in a single post. In fact, I could probably make everything I learned from him an ongoing column week after week.
September 17, 2024 / November 6, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
In the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of new publishers launch or at least get announced. And just last month we got another new one. Now let me start off by saying I’m all for new publishers and new tactics and new business models. Love the competition and love the innovation! With that out of the way, let’s talk about what readers and creators should likely be looking for in these announcements.
September 5, 2024 / November 6, 2024 by Andy Schmidt
Every X-Men fan has been wondering, when will Marvel’s merry mutants make their way from their own cinematic universe over at Fox Studios on over to the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU)? There are numerous factors that are going into the decision, not the least of which have to do with big business moves and decisions like, when was the sale of Fox Studios finalized at Disney? What approach does Marvel want to take with the mutants? Cast them young? Which ones to start with, the original five–Cyclops, Jean Grey, The Beast, Angel, and Iceman, or start with the later editions who are largely more popular than the originals? And of course, there’s the logistics of casting, once those larger decisions are made. But for the sake of this post, let’s look at some interesting times Marvel could have made the move in a big way to “import” the X-Men on over to the MCU. The most obvious place to have done it was during AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Here, we’ve got a magical glove that can literally make anything happen. And the bearer could manifest or change reality consciously, as Thanos did with “the snap” or perhaps unconsciously. And as Marvel events typically want to do, they like to have something “come out of” an event, and no bigger event has ever existed in super hero universes than ENDGAME. So, as the film winds down, that seems like a great place, perhaps in a post-credit scene to drop a hint that a mutant is out there and […]
