Phil McAndrew
@philmcandrew.bsky.social
Illustrator / cartoonist / writer. Making books, comics, zines, & more. Wrote and/or drew stuff for MAD Magazine, WFMU, The New Yorker, Penguin Random House, Cartoon Network, punk bands, etc
Buffalo, NY
philintheblanks@gmail.com
linktr.ee/philmcandrew
Buffalo, NY
philintheblanks@gmail.com
linktr.ee/philmcandrew
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Phil McAndrew
@philmcandrew.bsky.social
· Oct 10
HELLO, I'm an illustrator, cartoonist, and writer. You can find links to my portfolio, my books, merch, events, and more right here: linktr.ee/philmcandrew
uh oh, I started playing mtg arena again
January 5, 2026 at 5:02 AM
uh oh, I started playing mtg arena again
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The only way you can be a liberal instead of a leftist is if you have deliberately shut off your brain because you were beginning to learn things that scared you and destabilized your sense of a safe and rational world.
January 5, 2026 at 3:47 AM
The only way you can be a liberal instead of a leftist is if you have deliberately shut off your brain because you were beginning to learn things that scared you and destabilized your sense of a safe and rational world.
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Hire Phil! This stuff is amazing. I’m actually sad that it isn’t already in a rulebook on my shelf.
I feel very strongly that someone should hire me to illustrate a fantasy ttrpg
January 4, 2026 at 11:40 PM
Hire Phil! This stuff is amazing. I’m actually sad that it isn’t already in a rulebook on my shelf.
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Just going to repost this roughly once a month until it actually happens
I feel very strongly that someone should hire me to illustrate a fantasy ttrpg
March 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Just going to repost this roughly once a month until it actually happens
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You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
January 4, 2026 at 7:01 PM
You couldn't publish this today. You'd have to cloak it under several layers of metaphor.
Bottle Rocket still cracks me the heck up
January 4, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Bottle Rocket still cracks me the heck up
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Weird place to be when you're hoping the rest of the world can band together and fight off your own country.
January 3, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Weird place to be when you're hoping the rest of the world can band together and fight off your own country.
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Charles Schumer has to go
January 3, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Charles Schumer has to go
I don't even have words anymore for how stupid and evil and useless Chuck Schumer is. The most powerful Democrat in the federal government is straight up protecting a violent war criminal.
Asked about the possibility of impeachment, Schumer says "we hope that we can have support from our Republican colleagues to put a brake on this long before it gets that far"
January 3, 2026 at 9:05 PM
I don't even have words anymore for how stupid and evil and useless Chuck Schumer is. The most powerful Democrat in the federal government is straight up protecting a violent war criminal.
where are those etsy witches
January 3, 2026 at 6:05 PM
where are those etsy witches
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It's 2026, and the billionaires have taken over America and have used all of the world's art and writing as fuel for a machine that pumps out lies, teen suicides, and child porn.
January 3, 2026 at 4:01 AM
It's 2026, and the billionaires have taken over America and have used all of the world's art and writing as fuel for a machine that pumps out lies, teen suicides, and child porn.
One of my favorite things I got to do in 2025 was design a new logo for my bro @raymondmcandrew.bsky.social's rec league hockey team
January 2, 2026 at 8:08 PM
One of my favorite things I got to do in 2025 was design a new logo for my bro @raymondmcandrew.bsky.social's rec league hockey team
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I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Musk's Grok AI bot is fixing safeguard 'lapses' after posting of sexualized images of children
Users on X raised concerns over explicit content of minors being generated using Musk's Grok tool.
cnb.cx
January 2, 2026 at 5:03 PM
I cannot emphasize enough that the attempts to anthropomorphize an algorithm is a fundamental act of journalistic malpractice and an intentional act to shield the people responsible for this. It's fucking shameful.
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there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
January 2, 2026 at 6:59 PM
there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here
I'm glad there's an uproar about twitters AI being a child porn machine, but I do think it's weird that y'all didn't delete your instagram accounts when there were headlines about how meta is training it's AI to have sexual conversations with kids. This was less than six months ago.
January 2, 2026 at 6:48 PM
I'm glad there's an uproar about twitters AI being a child porn machine, but I do think it's weird that y'all didn't delete your instagram accounts when there were headlines about how meta is training it's AI to have sexual conversations with kids. This was less than six months ago.
it's really cool that the mayor of the biggest city in the united states is now a guy who for sure owns at least one beastie boys album
January 2, 2026 at 6:43 AM
it's really cool that the mayor of the biggest city in the united states is now a guy who for sure owns at least one beastie boys album
made a nice big pot of pickle soup today
January 2, 2026 at 5:55 AM
made a nice big pot of pickle soup today
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In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
'A directive from above': Former NYT editor lays out how the paper pushes anti-trans bigotry
In this in-depth interview, former New York Times editor Billie Jean Sweeney details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, how some staff tried to stop it, how it's directe...
transnews.network
January 1, 2026 at 6:32 PM
In this in-depth interview Billie Jean Sweeney — a former editor at The New York Times — details how the paper shifted towards openly promoting anti-trans hatred, why this was directed from the very top, how some staff pushed back and the immense damage done by the NYT legitimizing bigotry.
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So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.
January 2, 2026 at 2:27 AM
So glad her husband got that job so at least one cartoonist in New York can have health insurance.
Finally just filled out the exhibitor application form for RICE 2026! I don't do nearly as many comic shows as I did pre-pandemic, but I try not to ever miss this amazing little show in Rochester, NY. Applications are still open through January 10! wnycomicarts.com
Home - WNY Comic Arts
Western New York Comic Arts We are a collective of comic artists, writers, and supporters based in Western New York. Our aim is to create a community of support for creators at every level. RICE 2023S...
wnycomicarts.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 AM
Finally just filled out the exhibitor application form for RICE 2026! I don't do nearly as many comic shows as I did pre-pandemic, but I try not to ever miss this amazing little show in Rochester, NY. Applications are still open through January 10! wnycomicarts.com
One of *my* old bands always really enjoyed playing shows with *this* old band
January 2, 2026 at 1:18 AM
One of *my* old bands always really enjoyed playing shows with *this* old band
how am I just now finding out about this, I can't stop laughing
HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right
January 1, 2026 at 11:20 PM
how am I just now finding out about this, I can't stop laughing
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I post this old comic every year
January 1, 2026 at 8:36 PM
I post this old comic every year
This quote is maybe the best sentence I've ever heard come out of the mouth of a politician
Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty
January 1, 2026 at 8:34 PM
This quote is maybe the best sentence I've ever heard come out of the mouth of a politician
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Submissions for the 2026 Minicomic Awards are NOW OPEN through 1/31/26! 🎉
To submit your comic(s), register an account at mca.cartoonist.coop. Be sure to check out the full guidelines and FAQ before submitting.
To submit your comic(s), register an account at mca.cartoonist.coop. Be sure to check out the full guidelines and FAQ before submitting.
January 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
Submissions for the 2026 Minicomic Awards are NOW OPEN through 1/31/26! 🎉
To submit your comic(s), register an account at mca.cartoonist.coop. Be sure to check out the full guidelines and FAQ before submitting.
To submit your comic(s), register an account at mca.cartoonist.coop. Be sure to check out the full guidelines and FAQ before submitting.