Joe Bevill

Yes, the latest Andy The Retard strip features my good friend Joe Bevill! AND HERE IT IS!!
Yes, here it is over a week before the District will print it!

ANDY ALERTS THE NEIGHBORHOOD

Things are going well enough for me. On Thursday, I'll have been together with Bailey for two years and it feels like a birthday! Fun! I've made peace at work with my hated co-worker. I've bought some lovely out of print comic books. It just keeps getting better!

Bye my darlings!

A New Andy!

Here it is! The new Andy! and good news too! Due to rising standards (and believe me, I swear I use the word rising without a TRACE of sarcasm) Andy is no longer going to be titled as "Andy The" or even "@ndy!" Nope! I am proud to announce that Andy The Retard will now be titled "Andy The Retard" and I'd like to extend my thanks to Michael Jewel for allowing it! So... nice one, there!

JAMES BELITTLES ANDY

Also, more good news! Coming at the end of the quarter will be "ANDY: YEAR ONE." It's a clear play on the fabulous graphic novel known as "Batgirl: Year One" by Scott Beatty. This new mini will be in the same half-size format pioneered in the "ANDY STRIPS" mini, which collected all the pre-District strips and is still for sale... "ANDY: YEAR ONE" collects all the strips in the district leading up to the "Catfall" stroyline. More on that next quarter.

No progress on the "Andy Comics" mini, but I really hope to be working on it again soon.

Keep watching this space!

26, yes please, and RIGHT HERE

ANDY HITS ON MEL

So here we go, another new Andy strip for you lucky, lucky folks! This time, Andy uses his mad skillz to pick up chicks! Too bad Mel is kind of a bitch! Will he get his ass handed to him on a shiny platter? OR WILL HE JUST GET BEAT UP? Find out next time!

I didn't submit this one yet, so it'll be a while before you'll see this in the District... Ah well!

As an important note, the strips portrayed in the "Andy Strips!" mini and the website are a different story to the ones in the District. What happened was, when Andy got bitten by the dog, instead of actually biting his arm, the dog bit through the barrier between dimensions or something like that. Sure... Then some stuff happened and everything went back in time and everyone's memory was wiped and I SWEAR I planned this from the start. (Wink.)

All joking aside, I would like to create some kind of continuity between the two... So, in an act of defiant parody, SOME DAY, I might do a story to link them and call it... INDEFINITE CRISIS! or something...

I probably never will, but I'm just speaking my mind.

NEW ANDY!!!

HOLY SMOKES! I am 90% sure that I haven't posted this! If I did already, here's an encore.
I submitted it back in November, so it should have been the new District, but since it was a small one with only one page, my PITIFUL seniority lost out to bigger names like Robot Dave and that darn Joe Bevill! So anyhow, here it is, let's hope I can get into the District again!

ANDY REASSURES JAMES

I was a little put out by not being printed, but then again it's not like I'm the only one who wants to be printed. I'll just bide my time 'till I can usurp the throne...

Sorry, I wanted to say "usurp."

New strip! Deary me!

Hello all!

I believe it's time for a new post! Things are getting busy right now at SCAD for me, but nothing I can't handle (assuming I don't goof off like I know I will). Right now I have a scratch board page, an acrylic landscape, some digital speech bubbles, a script submission packet for either Dark Horse or Fantagraphics and finally, a math test. I'm looking forward to doing the scratch board page tonight and tomorrow night, as I have a really cool idea! The submission packet will be a plot synopsis for a story called "Hobgoblin" which is based on the ale of the same name! It's a little more serious than I usually write, so I'm giving it a more lighthearted angle right now. The math test? Feh.

Comixtravaganza has been canceled for this quarter, so my page for that is on hold. I'm going to finish it, but it'll just be for fun and will probably just sit in the vaults for a while. As far as Andy strips go, I'm not submitting any more for this quarter, as I've submitted enough for it to run until Christmas break (assuming there's room for me every time!).

Here is this week's strip! It's getting exciting now! I just introduced Mel into the story. For those who are unfamiliar with the original "run" of Andy The Retard, Mel was Andy's 26 year old girlfriend. Since the storyline started over, she's no longer his girlfriend. Will he get the girl AGAIN? A lot of people see her and think she's Bailey, my Gee-Eff, but I can assure you all, that's not so. I created her long before I met Bailey! Anywho:

SHOT DOWN

Also, this just popped into my head. I claimed once that Andy's single green eye in in homage to Earthworm Jim. That's a lie. The single green eye came from when I first started sketching Andy properly, I drew his eye too small, and it looked like an iris.

Don't get me wrong, though. EWJ was awesome.

The Last Post On October

BEST FRIEND JAMES

AH-HA!

The last post of this month! I've had two Andy strips printed in a row and things are looking good! I've had to start inking them again, as I don't have any saved up any more. Whatever! No big deal.

Comixtravaganza is coming up (or perhaps not, I hear) and I'm starting to think about my submission for it and I've got something fun in store... of course, this is all assuming I can get it done on time.

The strip I've posted tonight might be printed at the end of this week, that is, if seniority and space allow.

I'm starting to realize that "Andy The [Retard]" might get cut off at an awkward point in the slight continuity. To avoid things like this happening, as advised by a mister Joe Bevill, I'm trying to set up each strip as if it could be the first strip that any given reader would see. I mean, doing things like mentioning the character's names, having characters talk about the situations at hand and not having a fully running continuity (nothing like TUNE IN NEXT WEEK!)...

That's that... OH! and also, no more music videos! I promise! This ain't the place for that. If you want music videos, go browse YouTube.