Andrew Hussie

Andrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979)[1][2] is an American author and artist and the creator of MS Paint Adventures, a collection of webcomics that includes Homestuck as well as of several other webcomics, books, and videos.

Andrew Hussie
Hussie at a fan convention in 2010
Born (1979-08-25) August 25, 1979
NationalityAmerican
OccupationAuthor and artist
Known forMS Paint Adventures
Websitehomestuck.com

Career
Main article: Homestuck

In 2007, Hussie launched the website MS Paint Adventures to host comics he had created as forum games. The most popular of Hussie's works is the webcomic Homestuck, which ran from 2009 to 2016. It tells the story of a group of four kids who play a computer game called Sburb and inadvertently cause the end of the world. A sequel, Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon, was released in late 2019.[3]

Homestuck was on the reading list of Nick Mathewson, creator of Tor, and one of Foreign Policy magazine's top 100 global thinkers of 2012.[4] Homestuck was also cited as evidence that the "recent rejuvenation of adventure games has legs".[5]

Homestuck has been compared to Ulysses because of the complex and densely worded storytelling the series often utilizes.[6][7]

Personal life

Despite his popularity, Hussie has managed to maintain quite a bit of secrecy regarding his personal life. In a collectable printed version of Homestuck (Book 5: Act 5 Part 1) he revealed in an author's note (page 404) that he once lived in Guam, and that he has "moved well over fifty times". He currently lives in western Massachusetts.[8]

He graduated from Temple University[9] with a degree in computer science.[10][11] He is a managing member of the company What Pumpkin, LLC.[12]

Works
Videos
  • Andrew Hussie, with Jan Van dem Hemel, created many parody videos of Star Trek: The Next Generation from 2006 to 2009 or 2010.
  • Andrew worked with his brother to make a video series about an eccentric Bigfoot researcher, called Barty's Brew-Ha-Ha (2006 to 2011[13])
Webcomics by Andrew Hussie
  • Team Special Olympics
  • MS Paint Adventures
    • Jailbreak
    • Bard Quest (June 12, 2007 to July 6, 2007[14])
    • Problem Sleuth (March 10, 2008 to April 7, 2009[15])
    • Homestuck (April 13, 2009 to April 13, 2016[16])
    • Homestuck Epilogues (April 13, 2019 to April 20, 2019)
    • Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon (September 25, 2019 to Present)
  • Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
Published books
  • Whistles, Book One (The Starlight Calliope) (out of print, available online) ISBN 978-1-59362-073-8
  • Problem Sleuth (Five volumes, which cover all 22 chapters)
    • Volume One: Compensation, Adequate ISBN 978-0-9824862-3-8
    • Volume Two: This is Complete BS ISBN 978-1-936561-00-1
    • Volume Three: Suitor to the Sodajerk's Confidante ISBN 978-1-936561-80-3
    • Volume Four: Black Liquid Sorrow ISBN 978-1-936561-85-8
    • Volume Five: Sepulchritude ISBN 978-1-936561-11-7
  • Homestuck
    • By TopatoCo (three volumes, which cover Acts 1, 2, and 3, respectively)
      • Volume One ISBN 978-1-936561-82-7
      • Volume Two ISBN 978-1-936561-83-4
      • Volume Three ISBN 978-1-936561-10-0
    • By Viz Media
      • Book 1: Act 1 & Act 2 ISBN 978-1-4215-9940-3
      • Book 2: Act 3 & Intermission ISBN 978-1-4215-9939-7
      • Book 3: Act 4 ISBN 978-1-4215-9941-0
      • Book 4: Act 5 Act 1 ISBN 978-1-4215-9942-7
      • Book 5: Act 5 Act 2 Part 1 ISBN 978-1-4215-9943-4
      • Book 6: Act 5 Act 2 Part 2 ISBN 978-1-9747-0650-1
      • The Homestuck Epilogues: Volume Meat / Volume Candy (2020) ISBN 978-1-9747-0108-7
  • Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff ISBN 978-1936561-03-2
Video game projects
  • Hiveswap[17][18]
  • Namco High (2013)[19]
  • Hiveswap Friendsim (2018)
  • Pesterquest (2019)
  • Psycholonials (2021)

References
  1. Hussie, Andrew (August 26, 2007). "Y-Day was my B-Day". Andrew's Blog. Archived from the original on September 2, 2007.
  2. Hussie, Andrew (21 February 2009). "Andrew's Blog: If you drew a comic called Super Frog at age 11".
  3. Lee, Julia (2019-10-25). "Homestuck returns with Homestuck^2, a canon continuation of the infamous webcomic". Polygon. Retrieved 2020-02-18.
  4. "100 Top Global Thinkers of 2012". Foreign Policy. 197 (197): 29–53, 57–62, 64, 66–78, 80–84, 86–88, 90–96, 98–100, 102–111. December 2012. ISSN 0015-7228. JSTOR 41726927.
  5. Martens, Todd (January 22, 2013), "Adventure's back in the game plan; 'The Cave' by Ron Gilbert shows there's more thought going into gaming beyond blasts of action.", Los Angeles Times, p. D.1
  6. Lauren Orsini (October 1, 2012), "The most popular, epic webcomic you've never heard of", Geek Out blog, CNN
  7. Lauren Rae Orsini (September 6, 2012), Is Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?, The Daily Dot
  8. Andrew Hussie [@andrewhussie] (30 September 2010). "Moving announcement" (Tweet). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 2014-10-25 – via Twitter.
  9. "MSPA Formspring Archives". Archived from the original on 2016-08-05. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  10. "MSPA Formspring Archives". Archived from the original on 2016-08-05. Retrieved June 13, 2016.
  11. Faircloth, Kelly (October 3, 2012). "Stuck on Homestuck: How Andrew Hussie Turned a Tumblr Craze Into a Teenage Empire". The New York Observer. Archived from the original on October 5, 2012.
  12. Florida Department of State Division of Corporations, document #L09000051040, dated May 27, 2009
  13. "Barty's Brew-ha-ha", YouTube
  14. Andrew Hussie, Bard Quest Adventure Log, retrieved July 31, 2013
  15. Andrew Hussie, Problem Sleuth Adventure Log, retrieved July 31, 2013
  16. Andrew Hussie, MS Paint Adventures, retrieved April 13, 2016
  17. Kickstarter, Homestuck Adventure Game, retrieved August 30, 2013
  18. Andrew Hussie, Homestuck Adventure Game Update, retrieved November 1, 2014
  19. ShiftyLook, Introducing Namco High, archived from the original on August 28, 2013, retrieved August 30, 2013
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