i'm afraid it's very serious

torontocomics: panelpanopticon: I teamed up with the superb...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:59:16 -0700

panelpanopticon:

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!

Right over here!

THE PHONE CALL This comic also appears in The Hic & Hoc...

Wed, 15 May 2013 12:18:57 -0700

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.

panelpanopticon: I teamed up with the superb Daniel Elkin to...

Mon, 13 May 2013 20:59:25 -0700

panelpanopticon:

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.

hicandhoc: You can now get Lauren Barnett and Nathan Bulmer’s...

Mon, 13 May 2013 16:10:15 -0700

hicandhoc:

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!

benignkingdom: Hello everyone We’ll be at TCAF this weekend...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:50:23 -0700

benignkingdom:

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

Real Talk: Phil McAndrew's 'Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories' Mixes the Surreal with the Tranquil, Also Mustaches @ Comics Bulletin

Thu, 09 May 2013 22:11:43 -0700

Real Talk: Phil McAndrew's 'Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Stories' Mixes the Surreal with the Tranquil, Also Mustaches @ Comics Bulletin:

“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.”

Here’s a little video from the 90’s Nickelodeon show...

Wed, 08 May 2013 17:51:38 -0700

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.

I’ll be in Toronto, one of my absolute favorite cities,...

Wed, 08 May 2013 15:03:00 -0700

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!

torontocomics: The Hic & Hoc Illustrated Journal of Humor...

Wed, 01 May 2013 11:32:48 -0700

torontocomics:

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!

torontocomics: Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other StoriesBy...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:07:09 -0700

torontocomics:

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 Vagrant

TCAF is just two weeks away! I can’t wait!!!

This came in the mail on Friday.

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:33:50 -0700

This came in the mail on Friday.

The End of Summer This is for the big 90’s NIckelodeon...

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 17:04:45 -0700

The End of Summer

This is for the big 90’s NIckelodeon tribute show, opening at the iam8bit gallery in Los Angeles. This Friday! I might be at the opening, but I’m not sure. We’ll see if I can swing it.

Work in progress.

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 19:10:46 -0700

Work in progress.

riggedbooks: THE RIGGED BOOKS @ TCAF INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN IS...

Sat, 13 Apr 2013 17:24:25 -0700

riggedbooks:

THE RIGGED BOOKS @ TCAF INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN IS LIVE! SUPPORT SMALL COMICS AND SEE NEW COLOR BOOKS FROM MIA SCHWARTZ AND BEN URKOWITZ!

Gonna support the heck out of this.

Ithaca, NY

Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:31:05 -0700

Do I have any followers in Ithaca, NY? I’m going to be living there soon.

philmcandrew: Hello friends, I’ve uploaded a new little comic...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 16:00:12 -0700

philmcandrew:

Hello friends, I’ve uploaded a new little comic for you to look at right over here. This is just one of many comics that will be in my book, CRYING IN FRONT OF YOUR DOG AND OTHER STORIES, which was sent to the printer last week.

You can read more about the book right over here and you can pre-order a copy for yourself right over here.

Thanks, I love you.

Reblogging this in case you missed it at 2:00 am last night.

Hello friends, I’ve uploaded a new little comic for you to...

Fri, 05 Apr 2013 02:29:45 -0700

Hello friends, I’ve uploaded a new little comic for you to look at right over here. This is just one of many comics that will be in my book, CRYING IN FRONT OF YOUR DOG AND OTHER STORIES, which was sent to the printer last week.

Thanks, I love you.

sslyby: Here’s a picture of Phil McAndrew’s dad and a shirtless...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 09:14:34 -0700

sslyby:

Here’s a picture of Phil McAndrew’s dad and a shirtless Jimmy Carter in the 80s. I talk about it in our blurb for Phil’s new book. The book is called “Crying in Front of Your Dog and Other Strories.” So you know it’s good. BUY IT!

http://www.philintheblanks.com/store.html
http://philmcandrew.tumblr.com/

“Phil McAndrew has created a world of his own making that...

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 16:18:52 -0700

“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 Vagrant

You can read more about the book over here and pre-order a copy for yourself over here.

Infinite Phil. It’s a little rough around the edges...

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 21:37:46 -0700

Infinite Phil.

It’s a little rough around the edges (literally), but I made a pattern for the endpapers in my book.

You can read a little about the book over here and you can pre-order a copy for yourself over here.