Andrew Hussie

Andrew Hussie
Hussie at a con in 2010
Born	August 25, 1979
Nationality	American
Occupation	Author and artist
Known for	MS Paint Adventures
Website	mspaintadventures.com

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

Career

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.

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.^[3] Homestuck was also cited as evidence that the "recent rejuvenation of adventure games has legs."^[4]

Homestuck has been compared to Ulysses because of the complex and densely worded storytelling the series often utilizes.^[5][6]

Personal life

Despite his popularity, Hussie has managed to maintain quite a bit of secrecy regarding his personal life. His exact age is not generally known. References to dates made in his Blogspot blog^[7] and Formspring account^[1] suggest that he was born in 1979. 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.

Webcomics by Andrew Hussie

• Team Special Olympics
• MS Paint Adventures
  • Jailbreak
  • Bard Quest (June 12, 2007 to July 6, 2007^[13])
  • Problem Sleuth (March 10, 2008 to April 7, 2009^[14])
  • Homestuck (April 13, 2009 to April 13, 2016^[15])
• 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
• Homestuck (So far only 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
• Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff ISBN 978-1936561-03-2
• Dinosaur Comics: Everybody Knows Failure is Just Success Rounded Down ISBN 978-1-936561-90-2

Video game projects

• Hiveswap^[16][17]
• Namco High (2013)^[18]

References

1. "MSPA Formspring Archives". Retrieved June 13, 2016.
2. Hussie, Andrew (August 26, 2007). "Y-Day was my B-Day.". Andrew's Blog. Archived from the original on September 2, 2007.
3. Foreign Policy, 197: 29–53,57–62,64,66–78,80–84,86–88,90–96,98–100,102–111, December 2012
4. 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.", The Los Angeles Times, p. D.1.
5. Lauren Orsini (October 1, 2012), "The most popular, epic webcomic you've never heard of", Geek Out blog, CNN
6. Lauren Rae Orsini (September 6, 2012), Is Homestuck the Ulysses of the Internet?, The Daily Dot
7. Hussie, Andrew (21 February 2009). "Andrew's Blog: If you drew a comic called Super Frog at age 11".
8. Andrew Hussie [andrewhussie] (30 September 2010). "Moving announcement" (Tweet). Retrieved 2014-10-25 – via Twitter.
9. "MSPA Formspring Archives". Retrieved June 13, 2016.
10. "MSPA Formspring Archives". 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. Andrew Hussie, Bard Quest Adventure Log, retrieved July 31, 2013
14. Andrew Hussie, Problem Sleuth Adventure Log, retrieved July 31, 2013
15. Andrew Hussie, MS Paint Adventures, retrieved April 13, 2016
16. Kickstarter, Homestuck Adventure Game, retrieved August 30, 2013
17. Andrew Hussie, Homestuck Adventure Game Update, retrieved November 1, 2014
18. ShiftyLook, Introducing Namco High, retrieved August 30, 2013