Phil McAndrew is an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. He has contributed to The New Yorker, MAD Magazine, Popula, AWRY, The Nib, and many other publications. He lives in the Buffalo, NY area and currently teaches as an adjunct instructor with the illustration program at Syracuse University. He enjoys digging around in his garden and playing drums in bands with his friends.

His clients include Cartoon Network, MAD Magazine, The New Yorker, Abrams Books, Workman Publishing, Penguin Random House / Viking Books, Kids Can Press, The Nib, KBS+, Wisdom Publications, Columbia Records, Perfect Pussy / Captured Tracks, Ahoy Comics, Brooklyn Brewery, Lion Forge Comics, Cards Against Humanity, IFC / Portlandia, Grimalkin Press / Uncivilized Books, BOOM! Studios, and many others.

Website: http://www.philintheblanks.com/
Twitter: @philmcandrew
Instagram: @phil_mcandrew

Subsidiary rights:
Unless specified below, for France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, and Brazil: agence@lorafountain.com.
For all other inquiries: jen@linnanliterary.com.

YOUR MIND MAKES THOUGHTS LIKE YOUR BUTT MAKES FARTS - illustrator
(Wisdom Publishing, February 2023)

Rights: Wisdom Publishing

Your Mind Makes Thoughts Like Your Butt Makes Farts is unlike any other book about mindfulness for kids. With gross-out humor and hilariously disgusting illustrations, it will help kids understand that they don’t have to listen to everything their mind says—and realize that thoughts (like gas) will pass.

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CAVEBOY DAVE: Not So Faboo
(Viking Children's, October 2018) - artist

Rights: Penguin Random House
Italy (Editrice Il Castoro)
Netherlands (De Fontein)

Twelve-year-old Dave Unga-Bunga is having a great year: he survived his deadly Baby-Go-Boom ceremony, he's earned the respect of the villagers of Bleccchh, and he just invented ice cream and summer vacation. Before the ice cream melts, Dave and his friends spot a plume of smoke on the horizon (could there be others nearby?) and suddenly Shaman Faboo--the glue that holds the community together--goes missing. With no one to tell them what to do or how to think, the village panics and elects Dave as their new leader. If Dave can't find Shaman Faboo and bring him back, he'll be doomed to a life of boredom and something much worse: public service!

CAVEBOY DAVE: More Scrawny Than Brawny
(Viking Children's, November 2016) - artist
Amazon Best Book of the Month - Nov. 2016

Rights: Penguin Random House
Italy (Editrice Il Castoro)
Netherlands (De Fontein)

His grandpa invented fire. His dad invented the wheel. How will Caveboy Dave leave his mark?

Dave Unga-Bunga has always been more scrawny than brawny. This is a major problem when your village expects you to become a meat-bringer. At age twelve, all young cave-people must stalk through the eerie mushroom forests for a prehistoric beast the village can feast on. But Dave would much rather invent stuff for a better life—like underwear to make loincloths less itchy and cutlery to make eating less filthy. Can Dave save his group by inventing the perfect defense against a bloodthirsty pokeyhorn? Or will he MEET HIS DOOM?  

MONSTER SCIENCE - artist
(Kids Can Press, Sept 2016)
2018 Forest of Reading Silver Birch Honor
2016 California Reading Assoc. Eureka! Award
Rocky Mountain Book Award finalist
Lane Anderson Award finalist
SWCC Book Award finalist
Hackmatack Children's Book Award finalist


Rights: rights@kidscan.com
China (Sun Ya)
Russia (Rosman LLC)
Turkey (Beyaz Balina Yayınları)

What if the terrifying creatures of your nightmares were indeed prowling the big, wide world beyond your blankie? Could they really exist? And how? 

ASTONISHING ADVENTURES
Perfect Pussy + Joanna Gruesome 7" EP
(Captured Tracks, Dec 2014)

CRYING IN FRONT OF YOUR DOG
AND OTHER STORIES

(Grimalkin Press, 2013)