Andy Fanton


Andy Fanton is a British comic strip creator, artist and writer who first found fame after appearing in BBC 2's Robot Wars, but is best known for his work in The Dandy and The Beano.
Fanton's work first appeared 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, Plum MacDuff and Harry and his Hippo. Andy Fanton is currently writing Minnie The Minx and The Bash Street Kids in The Beano.
Andy also publishes his own website fiction series; 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 in 2004 by Cosgrove Hall Films.
However, the pilot of The Carrotty Kid was not transmitted due to ITV cutting back on new children's programming. Fanton continues to develop ideas for children's television including space-age comedy 'Jet Pets', superhero sit-com spoof 'Heroman' and the forthcoming 52 part series 'Shoe People: Rebooted' for Channel 5, based on the original 1987 series The Shoe People.
Andrew lives in Portsmouth UK with his eccentric robot butler, Jives.

List of published comics