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British comics artist

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Andy Fanton is a British comic strip creator, artist, writer and creator of The Carrotty Kid. Andy is best known for his work in The Dandy and The Beano.

Fanton's work first 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.

Created in the early 90's, Andy's popular webcomic, The Carrotty Kid, 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 restructuring and cutting back on new children's programming.

Andrew lives in Portsmouth UK with his son.

List of published comics

George VS. Dragon ~ The Dandy
Boo! ~ The Dandy
Harry and his Hippo ~ The Dandy
Grampire ~ The Dandy
Springwatch ~ The Dandy
Mad March Hare ~ The Dandy
Thor ~ The Dandy
Dave the Squirrel ~ The Dandy
Punslinger ~ The Dandy (writing)
Elf and Safety ~ The Dandy
Rude-olph ~ The Dandy
Stupid Barrio Bros ~ The Dandy
Iykan Si-Yu ~ The Dandy
Bad Grandad ~ The Dandy
Al Kazam ~ The Dandy
Cavemen in Black ~ The Dandy
The Chav Olympics ~ The Dandy
The Dirty Radish ~ The Dandy
Rocky Roller, Pest Controller ~ The Dandy
Teacher Training ~ The Dandy
Constable Clod ~ The Dandy
Secret Agent Sir ~ The Dandy
An Ape Named Bryn ~ The Dandy
Plum MacDuff ~ The Dandy
Something Funny ~ The Dandy
Hungry Horace ~ The Dandy
Little Plum ~ The Beano (writing)
Constable Caveman ~ The Beano
Emlyn the Gremlin ~ The Beano
Robopop ~ The Beano
Bertrum Muffet and the Violent Egg ~ Self Published
Dan Morrison: Party Liaison ~ Self Published
Eat, Pray, Fart ~ Self Published
The Turquoise Tiger ~ Self Published
The Turquoise Tiger: A Shot In The Daft ~ Self Published
Return of the Turquoise Tiger ~ Self Published
The Turquoise Tiger: Stripes Again! ~ Self Published
The Turquoise Tiger vs The Puce Puma ~ Self Published
The Turquoise Tiger: Crouching Tiger, Peeking Duck ~ Self Published
The Art of the Teal: The Autobiography of The Turquoise Tiger ~ Self Published
The Tiger Who Came To Clacton-on-Sea: A Turquoise Tiger Tail
The Stripes Before Christmas: A Turquoise Tiger Tail

References

"A Plum Job | Andy Fanton Dot Com". Archived from the original on 27 April 2013. Retrieved 2013-04-25.

External links

v t e DC Thomson comics
Currently running comics	The Beano Commando Fun Section in The Sunday Post
Adventure comics	Adventure Bullet Buddy Champ Commando The Crunch The Hornet The Hotspur The Rover The Skipper Spike Starblazer The Vanguard The Victor Warlord The Wizard
Girls' comics	Bunty Judy Mandy Nikki
Humour comics	The Beano The Beezer Buzz Classics from the Comics Cracker The Dandy EPIC Magazine Fun Size Comics Hoot The Magic Comic Nutty Plug Sparky The Topper
Pre-school comics	Bimbo The Magic Comic Twinkle
Notable strips	Alf Tupper Baby Crockett Bananaman The Bash Street Kids Beryl the Peril Black Bob Biffo the Bear Big Eggo The Broons Calamity James Cuddles and Dimples Dennis the Menace Desperate Dan Ginger Gnasher Ivy the Terrible Jonah Keyhole Kate Korky the Cat Little Plum Lord Snooty Matt Braddock Mickey the Monkey Minnie the Minx Nero and Zero The Numskulls Oor Wullie Pansy Potter Send for Kelly Roger the Dodger Tricky Dicky Willy Nilly Winker Watson Wilson the Wonder Athlete Wolf of Kabul
Comic annuals	The Beano Annual The Beezer Book The Bimbo Book The Dandy Annual The Hotspur Book for Boys The Sparky Book The Topper Book The Victor Book for Boys Warlord Book for Boys
Character annuals	Bananaman Annual The Bash Street Kids Annual Beryl the Peril Annual Black Bob Book The Broons Annual Dennis the Menace Annual The Desperate Dan Book Oor Wullie Annual
Notable artists	Barrie Appleby Nigel Auchterlounie Leo Baxendale Gordon Bell Nick Brennan Paddy Brennan Sid Burgon Reg Carter Wilbur Dawbarn Karl Dixon The Etherington Brothers Hunt Emerson Andy Fanton John Geering Barry Glennard Charles Grigg Ken H. Harrison Laura Howell Diego Jourdan Malcolm Judge David Law Trevor Metcalfe Allan Morley David Mostyn Vic Neill Robert Nixon Gary Northfield Nigel Parkinson Tom Paterson Jim Petrie Ken Reid Bill Ritchie David Parkins Jon Rushby Jamie Smart Lew Stringer David Sutherland Kev F. Sutherland Dudley D. Watkins Stevie White
Notable writers	Mike Chinn Gilbert Lawford Dalton Alan Grant Ian Gray R. D. Low Grant Morrison John Radford Cavan Scott John Smith
See also	List of D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd publications List of AP, Fleetway and IPC Comics publications List of Beano comic strips List of Dandy comic strips List of Topper comic strips List of Beezer comic strips List of Beezer and Topper comic strips
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