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Rick Marshall is a writer/editor currently living in Tarrytown, NY.

As a writer, he has reported on everything from contentious local and state-level politics to national media trends, pop culture and comic books. In addition to authoring a biweekly “Tech Life” column for Metroland, the alternative newsweekly of New York’s Capital Region, he has penned various pieces of humor and memoir-style journalism and still occasionally finds time to write a book or film review. Rick has interviewed various entertainers, artists and government officials at every professional level, and his work has been published (and reprinted) in various alternative newsweeklies, daily newspapers, trade publications and online media.

As an editor, Rick provides freelance copy and content editing for a variety of publications, as well as many novel/graphic novel authors.

Rick is currently the Managing Editor of ComicMix, a comics culture website featuring multiple original, ongoing series produced by some of the industry’s top creators, as well as news, opinion and reviews from the world of comics, science-fiction and pop culture. In addition to managing the site’s editorial calendar and overall direction, he regularly blogs about the latest news in comics and various other media, and conducts interviews with the movers and shakers throughout the pop culture world. His latest work on ComicMix can always be found here: www.comicmix.com/contributor/rick-marshall/

Prior to joining ComicMix, he served as the Online Editor/Content Manager for the comics and entertainment publishing company Wizard Entertainment. Under his editorial guidance, traffic on the company’s site (www.wizarduniverse.com) grew from 16,000 pageviews/month to nearly 4 million pageviews/month, with content often featured on such sites as IMDB.com, aintitcoolnews and other major online entertainment news destinations.

In 2006, Rick was named “Writer of the Year” by the New York Press Association for his work as a staff writer for Metroland. His work was also cited by NYPA that year in their awards for coverage of Education (First Place) and for coverage of Business, Financial and Economic News (Third Place). Rick’s short-form news writing was also recognized that year with an award by the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies. A year earlier, his work was cited by NYPA for coverage of the Environment (Third Place), as well as coverage of Health, Health Care and Science (Second Place).

Rick is a graduate of the State University of New York in Plattsburgh and holds degrees in Computer Science and Environmental Science. He is proficient with most content management systems and online programming languages, as well as many audio/video editing applications.

He created this digital soapbox in 2000 using Blogger.com, evolved to MoveableType a year later, and now continues to regularly update the site via Wordpress. This is the fourth generation of MindPollution.