More About the Artist

Andy has been drawing comics almost since he could hold a pencil. His early attempts at drawing were of people he saw or heard in a story. This was followed by copying comics from the newspaper. His biggest influence at the ripe old age of eight was Peanuts and Beetle Bailey. When school would get boring, Andy would doodle pictures of things he liked just to pass the time. In high school this was replaced by drawing his teachers based on some comment they made or something they always did that was eccentric or humorous. One teacher would get angry, bang his fist on the desk and yell, while the veins on his forehead would stand out. Another teacher would jump around the room, whistle and sing "yeah for you" or "boo to you" depending on whether you did something right or not. And still another teacher would let out a long low whistle and start speaking in a ficticious language. These were all great sources of many comics that were drawn during high school.

Comic drawing went on hiatus after high school while Andy was in the military and college. After working for a few years in an office with an obsessive-compulsive, paranoid hypochondriac (and other supporting cast), just out of sheer annoyance, Andy drew a few comics about this person as a joke, and thus the character of Fife was born. This is when Andy thought, "you know, I bet I have enough material to do a bunch of comics". And soon Andy was drawing again. He then added the other characters to round out his office and family in comic form. Years later, Andy is still drawing these comics every day.

He now gets material from Fife, his other co-workers, family and friends, and especially his daughters who give him an endless supply of material. Of course current events and the insanity of some people also add to Andy's list of comics. And the scary thing about this is that 99.9% of the events portrayed in the comics are real. Most of the time reality is comical enough on its own.

Andy lives in Florida with his wife and daughters. And he thinks that there must be somewhere better in the country to live than Florida and can't understand why people are moving there in droves.

The Andyland Comics are not drawn by hand. The handful of original sketches were done that way. All of the comics are drawn with a computer graphic program.