Andrew Hussie

Andrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979) 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.

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.

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. Homestuck was also cited as evidence that the "recent rejuvenation of adventure games has legs".

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

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.

He graduated from Temple University with a degree in computer science. He is a managing member of the company What Pumpkin, LLC.

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)

Webcomics by Andrew Hussie

• Team Special Olympics
• MS Paint Adventures
  • Jailbreak
  • Bard Quest (June 12, 2007 to July 6, 2007)
  • Problem Sleuth (March 10, 2008 to April 7, 2009)
  • Homestuck (April 13, 2009 to April 13, 2016)
  • 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
• Namco High (2013)
• Hiveswap Friendsim (2018)
• Pesterquest (2019)