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Name:
Phil McAndrew
Location:
Syracuse, USA
Web Sites:
www.philintheblanks.com
Influences/Inspiration
People, winter, absurdity, childhood, adventures, history, suspense, beards, anxiety, cute girls, the woods, pizza, anything strange, uncomfortable situations
Best Things In Life
Food, friends, making things, snowboarding, pizza
Music
How am I supposed to narrow it down to just five! That's crazy! I guess I'll go with The Beatles, Ben Folds Five, Elliott Smith, The Unicorns, The Flaming Lips.
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Nate Williams
2008-04-01 19:18:53
Phil McAndrew is an illustrator and cartoonist living in the city of Syracuse in the United States. He was born in 1985 and started drawing shortly after that. His childhood was spent building forts, playing hockey, and exploring the woods with his brothers. In high school he was the art director of the school newspaper and he started self publishing mini comics and webcomics around that time as well. He dabbled in stop-motion animation and film making as a teenager, creating short movies and cartoons with his brothers and friends. After being accepted (with small scholarships in some cases) into schools like SVA, Pratt Institute, and University of the Arts, he for some reason went on to study at Daemen College in Buffalo, where he was awarded a portfolio-based four year scholarship and was often saddened by the lack of hills in the area. He graduated in 2007 with a BFA in illustration and a hefty debt.
While in college, Phil earned money by illustrating t-shirts, posters, and album covers for rock bands in the Western-New York area. In 2004, Phil co-founded Found Hat Press, a collective of talented young illustrators and cartoonists. He interned for two consecutive summers in the art department at Syracuse's daily newspaper, The Post-Standard, where at the age of 22 he won the 2006 Syracuse Press Club Professional Recognition Award for best art illustration. This past summer, Phil created enormous scenic illustrations that were painted and incorporated into the set for a stage production of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood."
Recently Phil helped out as a colorist on his friend Frank Cammuso's first "Knights of the Lunch Table" graphic novel, which is being published under Scholastic's Graphix imprint later this year. Phil is currently pursuing freelance illustration work while attempting to write and draw his own first graphic novel. His illustrations have appeared in a number of magazines and newspapers and his comics have been published in several volumes of You Ain't No Dancer, an acclaimed series of anthology books from New Reliable Press, as well as online at Serializer.net.
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