Andy Fanton is a British

comic strip creator A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and g ...

, artist and writer who is best known for his work in ''

The Dandy ''The Dandy'' was a British children's comic magazine published by the Dundee based publisher DC Thomson. The first issue was printed in December 1937, making it the world's third-longest running comic, after ''Il Giornalino'' (cover dated 1 Oct ...

'' and ''

The Beano ''The Beano'' (formerly ''The Beano Comic'', also known as ''Beano'') is a British anthology comic magazine created by Scottish publishing company DC Thomson. Its first issue was published on 30 July 1938, and it became the world's longest-runn ...

''. Fanton's work first appeared in the first issue of the 2010 relaunched Dandy with his strip 'George Vs Dragon'. After the initial 12-week run finished, Fanton moved on to ghostly goings on in 'Boo!' from February 2011 to April 2011 plus a revamp of the 80's Dandy comic ''Harry And His Hippo'' which ran from March 2011 to April 2011, as part of "Strictly Come Laughing". Harry and His Hippo won the vote, ahead of Daredevil Dad, Tag Team Tastic and Phil's Finger. Andy Fanton later introduced more series such as Bad Grandad and Secret Agent Sir. Fanton's characters continue to appear in The Dandy Summer Specials and yearly Dandy Annual. For the final print edition of The Dandy on its 75th anniversary, Andy Fanton drew Bad Grandad,

Hungry Horace ''Hungry Horace'' is a video game developed by Psion Software Ltd. and published by Sinclair Research in 1982 for Commodore 64, Dragon 32/64, Timex Sinclair 2068, ZX Spectrum, and later for Microsoft Windows and Android (operating system), And ...

, Plum MacDuff and Harry and his Hippo. Andy Fanton is currently writing

Minnie The Minx Minnie the Minx, whose real name is Hermione Makepeace is a comic strip character published in the British comic magazine ''The Beano''. Created and originally drawn by Leo Baxendale, she first appeared in issue 596, dated 19 December 1953, ma ...

and

The Bash Street Kids ''The Bash Street Kids'' is a comic strip in the British comic magazine ''The Beano''. It also appeared briefly in The Wizard as series of prose stories in 1955. The strip, created by Leo Baxendale as ''When the Bell Rings'', first appeare ...

. Andy also publishes his own website fiction

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; the Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely, which has been running since 2007, along with his popular webcomic, The Carrotty Kid, which was commissioned into an animated pilot for

ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of: ** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ...

in 2004 by

Cosgrove Hall Films Cosgrove Hall Films (also known as Cosgrove Hall Productions) was an English animation studio founded by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall; its headquarters was in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester. Cosgrove Hall was once a major producer of childr ...

. However, the pilot of The Carrotty Kid was not transmitted due to ITV cutting back on new children's programming. In 2018 Andy was asked to adapt and serialise Disney's pug-based live-action rom-com 'Patrick: Pug, Actually', which was later collected and released as a book. Andrew lives in Portsmouth UK.

List of published comics

* ''George VS. Dragon'' ~ The Dandy * ''Boo!'' ~ The Dandy * ''Harry and his Hippo'' ~ The Dandy * ''Grampire'' ~ The Dandy * ''Springwatch'' ~ The Dandy * ''Mad March Hare'' ~ The Dandy * ''Thor'' ~ The Dandy * ''Dave the Squirrel'' ~ The Dandy * ''Punslinger'' ~ The Dandy (writing) * ''Elf and Safety'' ~ The Dandy * ''Rude-olph'' ~ The Dandy * ''Stupid Barrio Bros'' ~ The Dandy * ''Iykan Si-Yu'' ~ The Dandy * ''Bad Grandad'' ~ The Dandy * ''Al Kazam'' ~ The Dandy * ''Cavemen in Black'' ~ The Dandy * ''The Chav Olympics'' ~ The Dandy * ''The Dirty Radish'' ~ The Dandy * ''Rocky Roller, Pest Controller'' ~ The Dandy * ''Teacher Training'' ~ The Dandy * ''Constable Clod'' ~ The Dandy * ''Secret Agent Sir'' ~ The Dandy * ''Plum MacDuff'' ~ The Dandy * ''Something Funny'' ~ The Dandy * ''Hungry Horace'' ~ The Dandy * ''Little Plum'' ~ The Beano (writing) * ''Constable Caveman'' ~ The Beano * ''Emlyn the Gremlin'' ~ The Beano * ''Robopop'' ~ The Beano

References

External links

Andy Fanton Dot Com

The Astonishing Adventures of Lord Likely

The Carrotty Kid

Robot Wars trivia

Review of new Dandy by Forbidden Planet

The Dandy News by Forbidden Planet
British comics artists British comics writers Living people The Dandy people The Beano people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-comics-creator-stub