11 Facts About Andi Watson

Andrew Watson was born on 1969 and is a British cartoonist and illustrator best known for the graphic novels Breakfast After Noon, Slow News Day and his series Skeleton Key and Love Fights, published by Oni Press and Slave Labor Graphics.

Andi Watson has worked for more mainstream American comic publishers including DC Comics, a twelve-issue limited series at Marvel Comics, several series for Dark Horse Comics, and Image Comics.

Andi Watson was born in the Wakefield Infirmary and raised in Kippax, West Yorkshire by working-class parents.

Andi Watson approached various American publishers and was taken on by Dan Vado of Slave Labor Graphics in 1993 who published four issues of Samurai Jam.

Rather than approach the issue of her being a robot Andi Watson used the story to examine the ideas of fake and real.

The Geisha one-shot comic marked a dramatic shift in Andi Watson's style, bringing in stylistic influences from European creators such as Francois Avril and Dupuy and Berberian, but retaining the slow pacing of long-form Manga.

Andi Watson returned to Slave Labor in 2002 with Slow News Day, a graphic novel set around a small town British newspaper which dealt with English attitudes to Americans and the theme of big versus small audience.

Andi Watson followed that with a one-shot featuring the fox spirit Kitsune from his earlier series Skeleton Key, this time in a tale set in medieval Japan, scripted by Woodrow Phoenix.

Andi Watson then created twelve issues of a romantic comedy series Love Fights published by Oni and followed that with Paris, a limited series for Slave Labor scripted by Watson with art by Simon Gane.

Gum Girl, Andi Watson's current work, features stories about a girl called Grace Gibson, who is a young superhero fighting strange villains in the town of Catastrophe.

Andi Watson has worked as the writer on a variety of licensed properties, most significantly a 2-year run on the first Buffy the Vampire Slayer comics from Dark Horse Comics and Marvel Comics' Namor.