Conventions & Exhibition Archive:
UPCOMING: SPX 2023; Punk Island Zine Fest 2023
Small Press Expo (SPX), Bethesda, MD, 2019; 2022 (Panel: Trans Identities in Fantasy & Fictional Storytelling with Bread Tarleton, Casey Nowak, and Tommi Parrish (moderated by L Nichols); UPCOMING: 2023
MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo), including panel: “Collaboration in Comics”, moderated by Steenz, with Ivy Noelle Weir, Barbara Thomas & Timothy Wall, Chad Sell, and Chan Chau, Boston, MA, October 2022
NonFiction Comics Fest, Burlington, VT, October 2022
Toronto Comic Arts Fest (TCAF), Toronto, Canada, May 2019 & 2016 (including panel & live reading);
FlameCon, Brooklyn, NY, August 2019 (including teaching a workshop: “Analog Inking for Digital Artists”) & 2017;
Thought Bubble UK, Leeds, England, September 2018;
Chicago Zine Fest, Chicago, IL, May 2018, April 2016 (including live reading);
Comics & Medicine Conference, White River Junction, VT, August 2018;
L.A. Zine Fest (LAZF), Los Angeles, CA, May 2017;
RaptorCon, Orford, NH, May 2017;
Vancouver Comic Arts Fest (VanCAF), Vancouver, Canada, May 2016;
Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo (DINK), Denver, CO, July 2016 (Fellowship Recipient, live panel);
Grand Rapids Zine Fest, Grand Rapids, MI, July 2016;
Solo Show (DTLA Art Walk), Salon on Main, Los Angeles, CA, August 2015;
Comique Con, Dearborn, MI, November 2015;
Comikaze, Los Angeles, CA, October 2014
Hey, I’m Andi!
I’m a bestselling (New York Times Graphic Novels Top 10, Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Frontlist, Amazon #1, and B&N Booksellers’ Favorite) & award-winning (MoCCA Fest Award of Excellence & M. Prize) YA & horror-comedy cartoonist & writer who makes funny jokes and makes you sad at the same time, like a sandwich made of real human tears! I grew up in Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, and the Southwestern US (and lived most of my adult life in Los Angeles & Vermont). I have a graduate degree in Comics from the Center for Cartoon Studies (class of ‘18!), a couple fellowships/residencies under my belt (SAW Teaching Artist in Residence Sept-Oct 2021, Cape Cod National Seashore C-Scape Fellowship Resident in Provincetown 2017, DiNK Denver Independent Comics Expo Fellowship 2016), and have comics in books from Scholastic Graphix, Mad Cave, T.O. Comix, on The Nib, and tons more!
My absolute fave genres to write/draw are horror, horror-comedy, and teen dramedy. I also like analog inking, King of the Hill, single-player RPGs, and all kinds of dumb goth stuff!
Fig A: My face!
You might know me from my (critically acclaimed!) webcomic Trans Man Walking, the Jed the Undead universe, drawing for the Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights graphic novel series, and/or enthusiastically talking about cartoons and ska music at barcon at 2AM. I currently live in Vermont!
I am represented by Moe Ferrara at BookEnds Literary Agency!
For enquiries please email me at SuitedDevil@gmail.com, or my agent at mferrara@bookendsliterary.com
Awards & Such!:
New York Times Graphic Novels Bestseller, Top 10 (#9, October 2022); Top List (#15, November 2022)
Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Frontlist Bestseller (31 total weeks, from September 2022 to 4/26/23)
MoCCA Fest 2023 Award of Excellence & M. Prize recipient for YENNFER’S BODY (2023)
#1 Amazon Bestseller (YA Graphic Novels category), including multiple consecutive months in the Bestseller YA Graphic Novels, Action & Adventure category
Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Favorite
SAW (Sequential Artists Workshop) Gainesville Teaching Artist in Residence (August 2021 - Sept 2021)
Cape Cod National Seashore Artist-in-Residence Fellowship (June 2017 – July 2017)
Denver Independent Comic & Art Expo (DiNK Denver) Fellowship (July 2016)
Fun Facts About Me!
I collect leatherbound occult books, a dream of mine since I was a little kid
I once tried out for MasterChef and actually made it to the Top 100, only to be immediately kicked off on Day 3
I have played over 1,000 hours of Fallout 3 and I’m not sorry. This used to say “600 hours” but turns out I’m much more far gone than I initially feared.
My first mosh pit injury was a broken glasses/busted nose situation at age 13 at a Franz Ferdinand show (who knew you could mosh to Franz Ferdinand?)
I dropped out of USC School of Cinematic Arts to go work in the games industry, which sounds nuts, but then I left game dev to get a graduate degree in comics from the Center for Cartoon Studies and draw comics forever, which might be even more nuts. I worked on Where Cards Fall, ChronoScouts, Mytheon, Panzer General: Allied Assault, and more! (Plus I used to be a QA peon as a summer job back in high school. Hi, everyone at Petroglyph!)
Selected Bibliography
YENNEFER’S BODY, self-pub // MoCCA 2023 Award of Excellence winner // Sept 2022
“Out of Stock” in Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #1 (Pencils, Inks), Scholastic Graphix // NYT Top 10 Bestseller, PW Bestseller // Sept 2022
“Breadmaking” (written by Lela Gwenn) in Lower Your Sights (Pencils, Inks, Colors, Letters), Mad Cave // Sept 2022
“Meanwhile, Back Home” in Wayward Kindred, T.O. Comix // July 2020
“Vote, Nevada!” for Draw Out The Vote, Oni Press // September 2018
“Muslim Mythbusters” (written by Taz Ahmed & Zahra Norbaksh) in New Frontiers: The Many Worlds of George Takei (Pencils, Inks, Color), Secret Identities // July 2017
Jed the Undead, Volume 1: Fire in the Hole, Sorry Mom Comix // May 2017
“We're Doomed: Environmental Points of No Return”, The Nib // April 2017
“The Mountain”, in Tabula Idem: A Queer Tarot Anthology, Fortuna Media // March 2017
Trans Man Walking #1 & #2 // May 2016, June 2017
Included in the University of Chicago's Regenstein Library as part of their academic zine collection.
Included in the Ivy League library Zine Archive.
American Spirits #1 & #2 // November 2014, August 2016
Jedville (Art Book) // October 2015 & May 2016