Comics Experience Podcast
The Comics Experience Podcast provides ~15 minutes of advice per episode on all aspects of creating comics and breaking in to the industry. Join Comics Experience founder and former Marvel and IDW Editor Andy Schmidt and his co-host Gamal Hennessy as they discuss making comics!
Do you have a question about making comics you’d like to hear discussed on the podcast? Email us at info@comicsexperience.com.
#195 – Convention Cancellations and Creator Impact with Phillip Sevy
Artist and writer Phillip Sevy joins Andy and Joey to talk about the cancellation of ECCC and other cons, how no current conventions is impacting artists, retailer impact, and more.
#194 – Getting and Using Feedback with Michael Roslen
Getting feedback from friends, peers, and editors can be essential to any comic creation, helping with rewrites, plots and story clarifications, art changes, and more. Writer Michael Roslen (REMNANT) shares his experience getting and using feedback.
#192 – Creative Services with Andy Schmidt and Anne Randulic
Andy Schmidt and Anne Randulic talk with Joey about Comics Experience Creative Services, where CE works with people to manage and build out a creative team and the comics-making process. Anne talks about the experience, and Andy talks about the CE process.
#191 – Having Your Work Critiqued with Molly Lazer
Writer and editor Molly Lazer (Marvel Comics) talks with Joey about the importance of having your work critiqued, giving constructive actionable criticism, and reading drafts after notes.
#190 – Storytelling
Andy joins Joey to talk about storytelling comics, how perspective and trends change for storytellers over time, and how storytelling basics stay the same, and how it all ties into the CE intro art, writing, and coloring classes.
#189 – Pitching Your Comic with Fred Van Lente
Writer Fred Van Lente (Amazing Spider-Man, Conan the Barbarian, Archer & Armstrong, and many more) talks with Joey and Andy about pitching comics tips and previews his upcoming January 11th Comics Experience Master Seminar with Fred Van Lente: Pitching Comics!
#188 – Working with Editorial and a Talent Coordinator with Bon Alimagno
Creators Workshop Director Bon Alimagno talks with Joey about working with and developing new talent from his time in editorial and talent coordinator (Marvel). Bon talks about the basics of engaging as a professional, what a talent coordinator does, and more!
#187 – Online Learning with Creators Workshop Director Bon Alimagno
Creators Workshop Director Bon Alimagno talks with Joey about his background in comics including being an editor (Marvel, Harris) and talent coordinator, as well as his design operations and program management background and how the two converge for the CE Workshop.
#185 – Publishing with Comics Experience and Source Point Press
Tim Bach and Brian Atkins (The Family Graves) talk with Joey about the convention experience, and working with and publishing their comic through the Comics Experience publishing program and Source Point Press.
#184 – Creating and Workshopping a Mini Series with Tim Bach and Brian Atkins
Tim Bach and Brian Atkins (The Family Graves) join Joey to talk about creative collaboration, getting to know collaborators online and in person, the evolution of ideas, and workshopping their comics in the Comics Experience Workshop.