Phil McAndrew
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.