Links
about
ask
rss
website
blog
About
Phil McAndrew draws pictures and writes stories and jokes. He has drawn stuff for MAD Magazine, Cartoon Network, BOOM! Studios, Workman Publishing and many others.
I’m 5,000 years old but I’ve only been an illustrator for 400 years or so.
8:08 am 33 notes
lusinemeoww replied to your post: Hey. Does Phil McAndrew actually run this blog?
Hello! Just wondering how your work looks in the beginning stages.. your first sketches.
I wrote about my process a while back, right over here.
9:59 pm 7 notes
Yes, hi, hello, it is me, Phil McAndrew
9:48 pm 25 notes
7:47 pm 86 notes
WINDOW
A limited edition print which ONLY comes with pre-ordered copies of my book. It’ll never be available anywhere else ever again! Forever! Until the end of time!
11:30 pm 134 notes
Moldy Potential by Golly Bard on Flickr.
Whoahhh!!! I was quoted on a chalkboard!
12:59 pm 83 notes
I teamed up with the superb Daniel Elkin to review Phil McAndrew’s excellent book Crying in Front of Your Dog. We used the book as an opportunity to discuss the evolution of the form of comics as well as my theory that McAndrew’s knack for making the reader an active participant in his comics kind of makes him the Marina Abramovic of comix. We also both loved the book.
This was a pretty amazing TCAF debut, go get it from wherever it is being sold!
12:18 pm 81 notes
THE PHONE CALL
This comic also appears in The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor, which is now available right over here.
ALSO my first book, CRYING IN FRONT OF YOUR DOG AND OTHER STORIES is now available from Grimalkin Press.
8:59 pm 83 notes
I teamed up with the superb Daniel Elkin to review Phil McAndrew’s excellent book Crying in Front of Your Dog. We used the book as an opportunity to discuss the evolution of the form of comics as well as my theory that McAndrew’s knack for making the reader an active participant in his comics kind of makes him the Marina Abramovic of comix. We also both loved the book.
4:10 pm 145 notes
You can now get Lauren Barnett and Nathan Bulmer’s The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor Volume One: The United States at the Hic & Hoc store!
Do it before you second-guess yourself and spend the money on something sensible.
I’ve read this book and some of the comics in there are so funny that I cried. I’ve got a comic in there too. You should snatch this baby up!
9:50 am 16 notes
Hello everyone
We’ll be at TCAF this weekend with tons of fun for everyone! Make sure to stop by tables 218-221!
Hanging out with us all weekend will be:
Evan Dahm - Rice Boy / Vattu
Becky Dreistadt - Tiny Kitten Teeth
KC Green - Gunshow Comic
Yuko Ota - Johnny Wander
Additionally we have signings lined up as follows:
Phil McAndrew - PhilinTheBlanks
12:00 - 1:00 pm on Saturday
12:00 - 1:00 pm on Sunday
and
Emmy Cicierega - EmmyC
Saturday from 4:00pm-5:00pm
“It’s as if McAndrew is telling me intensely human stories, but he tells them by blowing hot air through enormous wax-lips made of the skin of Antonin Artaud, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Groucho Marx (if you can make wax out of skin), and is accompanied by the music of Spike Jones and Frank Zappa.”
10:11 pm 6 notes
5:51 pm 14 notes
Here’s a little video from the 90’s Nickelodeon show I was in recently at the iam8bit gallery in LA. I was there, somewhere. My painting is the last thing they show in the video, right around 4:16.
3:03 pm 54 notes
I’ll be in Toronto, one of my absolute favorite cities, this weekend for the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. I’ll have both of my brand new books with me - CRYING IN FRONT OF YOUR DOG AND OTHER STORIES and my BENIGN KINGDOM art book. I’ll mostly be hanging out at the Grimaklin Press booth (table 103) but will also be signing at the Benign Kingdom booth from time to time (tables 218 - 221).
I’m also doing a couple of drawing events at TCAF! Here’s the info from the festival’s website:
Making Faces - For kids on Saturday from 10:30 - 11:15am in the Novella Room in the Toronto Reference Library.
Join children’s illustrator David Huyck (That One Spooky Night) and Mad Magazine cartoonist Phil McAndrew on how to make a face that sticks. Learn how to show emotions through facial expressions and body posture — make your characters pop off the page! What do the eyebrows say? And why the heck are the eyebrows talking in the first place?
Live Drawing… 2! - on Sunday from 4:00 – 5:00pm at The Pilot Tavern (2nd floor).
Four creators enter, one creator leaves! Come watch four artists draw for their lives – and for your entertainment. Winners will feast on the souls of the losers (vegetarian option available). Featuring Phil McAndrew, Lucy Knisley, Jim Rugg, and Scott C.!
I hope to see you in Toronto!
11:32 am 89 notes
The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor Volume 1
Edited by Lauren Barnett and Nathan Bulmer
64 Pages
Published by Hic & Hoc
Debuting at TCAF 2013!Edited by ambulatory laff factories Lauren Barnett (Me Likes You Very Much) and Nathan Bulmer (Eat More Bikes), the first volume of an anticipated 196 volume series of the best of funny comics throughout the world features the likes of Phil McAndrew, Box Brown, Madéleine Flores, Zac Gorman, KC Green, Dustin Harbin, Jane Mai, Dakota McFadzean, Matt Wiegle, and Joe Lambert, who did the stunning cover! Oh hey as it turns out all of those people will be at TCAF! Weird.
Get this! I’m in it! It’s gonna be GREAT!
3:07 pm 367 notes
Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories
By Phil McAndrew
264 pages
Published by Grimalkin Press
Debuting at TCAF 2013!New and collected stories about life, death, love, ghosts, cats, time travel, humans, literature, fear, magic, evil organizations, happiness, television, secrets, dogs, loneliness, house plants, ancient dark rituals, pizza, failure, power, money, nature, government conspiracies, regret, the internet, horrifying monsters, awful jobs, wizards, the ocean, aliens, dads, kissing, crying and teeth.
“Phil McAndrew has created a world of his own making that exists in this little square volume, a comfortingly solid shape with glimpses into scenes that shift between the very familiar to a shadowy, dreamlike other side, with stories that move quickly, drawn in a minimum of panels, made sense of by the elegant humor he puts into each one. I loved it.” - Kate Beaton, New York Times best selling author of Hark! A VagrantTCAF is just two weeks away! I can’t wait!!!
