Andy Mangels

Andy Mangels is the best-selling author and co-author of over a dozen books - including Star Trek and Star Wars books - and is an award-winning comic book anthology editor. He has written hundreds of articles for entertainment and lifestyle magazines and newspapers in the United States, England, and Italy. Andy has worked on DVD supplemental material for several companies, and has appeared on both television and film. He most recently appeared in Comic Book: The Movie, and was interviewed for Trekkies 2. Andy has also written licensed material based on properties by Lucasfilm, Paramount, New Line Cinema, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Microsoft, Abrams-Gentile, and Platinum Studios. His comic-book work has been seen from DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Dark Horse, Wildstorm, Image, Innovation, WaRP Graphics, Topps, MVCreations, and others, and he was the editor of the award-winning Gay Comics anthology for eight years. Andy is a national award-winning activist in the Gay community, and has raised thousands of dollars for charities over the years.