Rick Schindler grew up in the idyllic northern suburbs of Buffalo, N.Y., a psychic stone's throw from Archie Andrews' hometown of Riverdale. His writing career began at age 15 when he won a New York Times award for a short story published in his high school literary magazine. At 19 he interned on the copy desk of the Buffalo News, where he discovered a knack for headline writing that has served him in good stead until the present day. He went on to a checkered media career that has included stints at HBO, TV Guide and NBC News Digital, where today he is a writer and editor for TODAY.com, website of the venerable American TV show TODAY. Schindler shared a 2012 Sigma Delta Chi award in online reporting with NBC News' Bob Dotson for the "American Story with Bob Dotson" features on TODAY.com. He also won two 2012 awards in headline writing from the American Copy Editors Society. Schindler lives in White Plains, New York, with his wife and 11,000 comic books, which she wants him to sell.
Review: "Fandemonium made me angry. This is because it came as a surprise. I don't like surprises. The surprise was that a book about comic geeks and comics culture could be so well-written, so engaging, and so much damn fun. Stop this man before he writes again. I hate surprises!" Ted Rall, award-winning editorial cartoonist and graphic novelist. Review: In a single bound, Rick Schindler has created a fizzing comic romp, a satire on the cynical commercial imperatives of big business and a love letter to comic books. Fandemonium is so vivid in recreating the world of comic publishing, and its endless cycles of stagnation and reinvention, that you half expect to come away from it with garish ink stains on your fingers. As you might expect from a veteran journalist, Schindler has an assured grasp of an array of metafictional techniques - news stories, screenplays, emails and so on - and marshals them cleverly to tell the story of faded former wunderkind Ray Sirico and his superannuated superhero Skylord. As the narrative heads towards the nerd circus of the comic convention circuit, it becomes as farcically convoluted as some of the fantasy sagas it pastiches. Graphic novel nuts, fantasy freaks and cosplay connoisseurs will love it. Jon Gower, Movie Reviewer at Total TV Guide. Review: "If there were a medal for best book about the comics industry, FANDEMONIUM would be the hands-down winner. This book captures that world with a wry humor and brings out the wackiness of its characters on both sides of the page." Jim Barnes, Editor and Awards Director, IndependentPublisher.com
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