Mark Andrew Smith is an award-winning American

United States

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 comic book

Comic book

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 author

Comic book creator

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 and graphic novelist.

Biography

In 2004 Smith caught the attention of Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

 Publisher Erik Larsen and then Executive Director Eric Stephenson who picked up his and Dan Hipp's first comic book series titled the Amazing Joy Buzzards

Amazing Joy Buzzards

The Amazing Joy Buzzards is a comic book series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Dan Hipp. The Amazing Joy Buzzards was first published in January 2005 by Image Comics.The Amazing Joy Buzzards ran as two limited series...

.

Smith is the co-creator and editor of the Popgun

Popgun (comics)

Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...

 Comics anthology

Comics anthology

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. Popgun won the Harvey Award

Harvey Award

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 for Best Anthology in 2008. Popgun volume 2 was nominated for Best Anthology of 2009. Popgun volume 3 won the Eisner Award

Eisner Award

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 and was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Anthology of 2010.

Mark Andrew Smith wrote the original graphic novel Aqua Leung, published in April 2008. Aqua Leung was nominated for a Yalsa award for best graphic novel for teens. Also in 2008 Smith wrote Kill All Parents, a 38 page one shot about superheroes whose parents are killed by a secret government program, drawn by Marcelo Di Chiara, also for Image Comics.

In 2009 Smith released The New Brighton Archeological Society

The New Brighton Archeological Society

The New Brighton Archeological Society is an original graphic novel series of books written by Mark Andrew Smith & illustrated by Matthew Weldon. The first volume, titled "The Castle of Galomar" debuted in March 2009...

 stemming from a series of short stories in Popgun with artist Matthew Weldon. The New Brighton Archeological Society follows a group of children whose parents are the greatest archeologists in the world. When their parents are lost on an expedition, the children must finish their parents' work, collect the books of magic, and defeat their parents' nemesis. The New Brighton Archeological Society was selected as "Best All-Ages Comic" of 2009 by MTV

MTV

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 Splash Page. The New Brighton Archeological Society received two Harvey Award Nominations in 2010.

Smith has been published in a number of anthologies such as the Belle & Sebastian

Belle & Sebastian

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 Anthology, 24Seven Vol. 1, Space Doubles, Paper Museum Vol. 3, and Popgun.

2011 saw the release of Smith's "Gladstone's School for World Conquerors" with artist Armand Villavert.

Smith's next project is titled Sullivan's Sluggers and is a baseball horror graphic novel drawn by James Stokoe for release in 2012.

Editor

• Popgun
  Popgun (comics)
  Popgun is an award-winning comics anthology series created by Mark Andrew Smith and Joe Keatinge. Popgun was published by Image Comics starting in 2007. The driving concept behind Popgun is a mixtape of graphic short stories that cross the borders of all genres...
  
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  • Volume One (with Joe Keatinge, Image Comics, November 2007)
  • Volume Two (with Joe Keatinge, Image Comics, July 2008)
  • Volume Three (with DJ Kirkbride, Image Comics, April 2009)
  • Volume Four (Executive Editor, Image Comics, February 2010)