Comics Connection Make Comics Podcast show

Comics Connection Make Comics Podcast

Summary: Have you ever wanted to learn how to make comics like the pros do? Comics Experience's Andy Schmidt gives you the inside information and tips that can help to make you a better comics creator. Andy, the founder of the online comic book school Comics Experience, is a former editor at Marvel Comics and IDW Publishing, as well as a comic book writer and the author of the Eagle Award-winning book, The Insider's Guide to Creating Comics and Graphic Novels, published by Impact Books.

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 #163 – Setting Goals for Your Comics Project | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:24

What do you want? What are the steps do you need to get there? Are you willing to deal with the downsides? All this and more in setting your goals for a comics project.

 #162 – Anthology Pitching | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:45

What goes into an anthology pitch? Jim Gibbons talks about how to make sure your story is suited to an anthology, if it’s a complete story and more, including his time editing the anthology series Dark Horse Presents.

 #162 – Anthology Pitching | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 29:45

What goes into an anthology pitch? Jim Gibbons talks about how to make sure your story is suited to an anthology, if it’s a complete story and more, including his time editing the anthology series Dark Horse Presents.

 #161 – Portfolios and Talent Scouting with Will Robson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:27

Artist Will Robson (Typhoid Fever: X-Men, Spider-Man/Deadpool, Star Lord) talks about his portfolio goals over the years, getting hired by Marvel and working with editors like Heather Antos. Heather shares her tips for portfolios and talking to editors.

 #161 – Portfolios and Talent Scouting with Will Robson | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 39:27

Artist Will Robson (Typhoid Fever: X-Men, Spider-Man/Deadpool, Star Lord) talks about his portfolio goals over the years, getting hired by Marvel and working with editors like Heather Antos. Heather shares her tips for portfolios and talking to editors.

 #160 – Parenting and Comics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:10

Nicole Boose talks parenting and comic-ing. How kids affect our approach to making comics, principles for managing your time, defining and adjusting goals, and mixing working from home and childcare.

 #160 – Parenting and Comics | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 38:10

Nicole Boose talks parenting and comic-ing. How kids affect our approach to making comics, principles for managing your time, defining and adjusting goals, and mixing working from home and childcare.

 #159 – Don’t Let Social Media Get You Down | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:00

Why bother with social media if there’s so much negativity? When DO you read the comments? And why do we create in the first place? Heather Antos talks Social Media blackouts & blocklists, along with other tips & tricks to stay sane.

 #159 – Don’t Let Social Media Get You Down | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 22:00

The Comics Experience Make Comics podcast provides ~15 minutes of advice per episode on all aspects of creating comics and breaking in to the industry.

 #158 – What Editors Need to Sell Your Book | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:15

Editors need few different things to get your book approved, including you having the basics of a good portfolio with examples of your work, finished work, a good pitch document… and more! Jim Gibbons (Dark Horse, Image) talks about what goes into it.

 #158 – What Editors Need to Sell Your Book | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 41:15

Editors need few different things to get your book approved, including you having the basics of a good portfolio with examples of your work, finished work, a good pitch document… and more! Jim Gibbons (Dark Horse, Image) talks about what goes into it.

 #157 – Character Core Values and Continuity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:05

In work-for-hire work situations character core values and the passing of time might not always be in sync with continuity. Heather Antos talks about thinking about and creating towards a character’s core values can lead to new and engaging stories.

 #157 – Character Core Values and Continuity | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 24:05

In work-for-hire work situations character core values and the passing of time might not always be in sync with continuity. Heather Antos talks about thinking about and creating towards a character’s core values can lead to new and engaging stories.

 Episode #156 – Defining Professional Boundaries with Nicole Boose | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:26

Defining boundaries: Making clear decisions about what you are and are not willing or able to do, and communicating them effectively.

 Episode #156 – Defining Professional Boundaries with Nicole Boose | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 28:26

Defining boundaries: Making clear decisions about what you are and are not willing or able to do, and communicating them effectively.

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