"IN THE BEGINNING--"

--Or "Highfather was a Badass Pt. 2"...

To further illustrate the profound impact this story had on me as a kid I depicted another scene from The NEW GODS story. I remember finding this issue buried in my brother's box of comics, wedged somewhere beneath Colan's IRON MAN and Buscema's AVENGERS. The cover was missing, so I had absolutely no idea what this was, nor the vast titles it belonged too (we were a MARVEL household, apparently). I thought it looked sort of how I imagined my brother's Micronauts toys would've been illustrated and the stories wherein (obviously I was wrong). All I knew was that I thought IZAYA THE INHERITOR was cool, cool, cool!

"HIGHFATHER WAS A BADASS!"

Continuing with a theme, I drew a scene from my absolute, hands down, favorite NEW GODS story. My favorite character in the Fourth World canon: IZAYA, THE INHERITOR!!!

THE BUG!

FORAGER is one of my favorite characters out of Jack Kirby's Fourth World NEW GODS stories. After finishing up a freelance job where I needed to digitally ink and color pages fast (6-9 pages per day), I wanted to turn that newly learned looseness onto a sketch for myself (and an image I can actually post). This was the result. Hope you enjoy!

OMAC'S HEADING DOWN UNDER!

...and by that I mean Australia, of course. All part of my "buy a book, get a separate sketch" promotion--which I didn't even start, by the way.

THERE'S STILL TIME!!!

Don't let your kids hate Santa, click on the links to the left and order an ART OF ANDY sketchbook and CHARLATAN BALL TEE today!

Make me go to the post office a few days before Christmas! I dare you!

"BETTER THAN A WOOPIE CUSHION"

I just finished up my 1st semester teaching character design at CalArts. A class or two ago I caught Manny drawing this during class when he should've been doing the assignment...

Hahaha. As punishment, I insisted he give me this drawing of me to further feed my narcissism.

I'm partial towards the one Sam(antha) did of me because I'm better looking:
...A+ for both of them!

SOMEONE'S TURNING ONE...

SOME RECENT SKETCHES...

"GALACTUS ATE MY HOMEWORK"

Some of you are aware I've been teaching an Intro to Character Design in Animation class to second year students at CalArts. The hardest part about teaching is having never verbalized what I do before. There has definitely been some mumbling and trailing off involved...

I thought this was a fun assignment I gave. For those of you not in my class, feel free to give it a try!

Below is the incredible Tom Fowler's minimalist TWART piece successfully breaking down the FF into their most simplest forms.
...and here's the lesson I gave them life drawing with sticks...and then beating them with them. Kidding, of course. There was no life drawing...

"ANYONE REMEMBER WHEN I WAS ON DEXTER'S LAB?"

Yes, I portrayed "Andy Suriano, 2nd shortest kid in Dexter's class"; which, of course meant I bullied Dexter because he was even shorter...and let's not forget chicks. I got the chicks...

COLD WAR KID

This one was a Nick Fury request from my new French friend Bruno.

(ONE) HAMMER OF JUSTICE

1ST MUTANT

"Z-Z-ZOMBIE!!!"

"TO ROB, LOVE KAMANDI"

NEW SYM-BIONIC TITAN ON TONIGHT!

I believe I did storyboards on this one!

"THE SKETCHBOOKS ARE IN THE MAIL!"

Hey all; thanks all of you in this recent batch of sketchbook purchases. And thanks Brian Warmoth @ COMICS ALLIANCE for this cool article!

They've all been sent out, so hopefully most will receive in the next couple days.

There's a sketch inside each book, as well as a special separate one as well!

WATCH SYM-BIONIC TITAN TONIGHT AT 8PM ON CARTOON NETWORK

The gang that did SAMURAI JACK and STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS are back together again! Watch the fruits of our labors tonight at 8pm on Cartoon Network.

"EXCUSE ME, BUT I BELIEVE YOU ARE WEARING MY DOG ON YOUR HEAD--"

Nope, just me, my moppy hair and a drawing of Vampirella. That's also DAVE JOHNSON and PAUL HARMON behind me, too.

Thanks GOLDEN APPLE and TITMOUSE for the signing. Oh! And the booze. Thanks for the booze.