ANDI SANTAGATA

Hey, I’m Andi!

I’m a New York Times Top 10 & Publishers’ Weekly bestselling cartoonist who makes comics and graphic novels for sarcastic teenagers and nostalgic adults.

I am represented by Moe Ferrara at BookEnds Literary Agency! For enquiries please email me at SuitedDevil@gmail.com, or my agent at mferrara@bookendsliterary.com


SLASHER U: ACT 2 + Mac Port Crowdfundr is LIVE! [SPX Creators Spotlight]

I’m HELLA PUMPED to announce I launched the Act 2 Crowdfundr for SLASHER U as part of Crowfundr & SPX (Small Press Expo)’s Creator Spotlight event!! You can pick up Early Access passes for Act 2, commissions, and some SUPER SECRET SPECIAL SLASHER U STUFF for the most hardcore of the Student Disembody! <33 Love you guys!!!

It’ll be running til October 6th, so let’s f’kin go >:)))))

LOWER YOUR SIGHTS nominated for a Ringo Award for Best Anthology! - 7/12/23

I’m SUPER EXCITED to announce that Mad Cave Studios’ LOWER YOUR SIGHTS (which includes me & Lela Gwenn’s comic BREADMAKING) was nominated for a Ringo Award for Best Anthology this year! Industry folks can vote during the eligible period on the Ringo site - and, once again, OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE NOMINATION!! It’s an absolute honor!!


YENNEFER’S BODY wins Award of Excellence & M. Prize at MoCCA Fest 2023! - 4/2/23

I am BEYOND THRILLED to announce that Yennefer's Body has won an Award of Excellence for best in show at MoCCA Fest 2023, & I'm officially an M. Prize recipient! I can't believe my little comic about death and queerness and Morrigan from Dragon Age resonated with so many people - I'm SO PROUD of the storytelling, and I'm super excited to be a part of this year's Awards slate!!


Tour Date: See you at MoCCA Fest 2023! (April 1st & 2nd, NYC) - 3/9/23

I’m thrilled to announced I’ll be tabling at MoCCA 2023 this year in NYC - I can’t wait to be back in the city! I’ll be at Table 150 with all the old faves, brand new prints, and, for the first time, copies of FVCK CANYON!


FAZBEAR FRIGHTS #1 hits the Publisher’s Weekly Bestseller List for the 32nd week total! - 5/4/23

HAPPY HALF-YEAR OF BESTSELLING! It’s spooky season and I’m SUPER THRILLED to announce that FIVE NIGHTS AT FREDDY’S: FAZBEAR FRIGHTS #1 has hit the Publisher’s Weekly Children’s Frontlist Fiction list as a bestseller (for THIRTY TWO WEEKS aka SEVEN WHOLE MONTHS- that’s every week but ONE since release!) on the PW Children’s Frontlist from launch til today!!! I am SO INCREDIBLY PROUD of the Graphix and FNAF team!!

FNAF: Fazbear Frights #1: The Graphic Novel Collection is also a New York Times bestseller in the Graphic Novels category for October (at #9) and November (#15), a Barnes & Noble Bookseller’s Favorite, and a multi-month #1 Amazon Bestseller in the Teen & YA Graphic Novels category!

Celebrating FAZBEAR FRIGHTS #1’s 2nd month on the New York Times Graphic Novels Bestseller List! - 11/3/22

Oh my goodness Five Nights at Freddy’s: Fazbear Frights #1 hit the New York Times Graphic Novels Bestseller list AGAIN for November!! It secured the #9 spot in October, and hit #15 this month! A MASSIVE thank you to Scholastic Graphix, the FNAF team, and everyone who’s picked up a copy of the book!! I’m so excited you like our comic!!!

New Comic Alert! BREADMAKING in LOWER YOUR SIGHTS (Mad Cave ‘22)

Written by Lela Gwenn, with art, colors, & letters by me! LOWER YOUR SIGHTS is a charity anthology helping Ukrainian children affected by the war. You can pick up your copy via Mad Cave or at your local comic store (happy New Comic Book Day #NCBD!)

New Comic Alert! YENNEFER’S BODY debuting at SPX 2022! <3

Oh ho ho what’s this? A brand new, 64-page, limited color, for-adults autobio comic from your favorite indie comics boy?? You can read YENNEFER’S BODY right now on my website, or pick up a copy at SPX this September in person!

[YENNEFER’S BODY by Andi Santagata - Debuting at SPX 2022]

Let’s get MONSTROUS! A Horror Cartooning Workshop with Me! at SAW!

SAW will be hosting a (free! open to all!) online workshop with me all about MONSTER DESIGN on July 22nd, 2022! Signups will open two weeks before the date on the SAW website and their social media. See your spooky selves there!!

SLASHER U nominated for a 2024 IndieCade Award!

It’s an ABSOLUTE HONOR to have been nominated for an Impact Award at this year’s IndieCade - catch the awards ceremony on the front page of Steam (!!) on November 9th, and a special Let’s Play of Slasher U on the 8th ALSO on the front page of Steam! LET’S ROLL!

SLASHER U at Hand Eye Society Super FEST!

Catch Slasher U: Act 1 featured at this year’s Hand Eye Society Super FEST - it’s an absolute honor to be included on the roster of games! Check out the 2023 slate all week from November 20th to the 26th!

SLASHER U: ACT 1 ALPHA out now on itch.io! - 4/27/23

It’s finally happening!! The public alpha of Act 1 of Slasher U is finally up on itch.io!! I hope you enjoy my love letter to horror movies & 90’s sex comedies, and remember - keep all your limbs inside the RPG/dating sim unless you want them to get hacked off by a fellow student for extra credit. [PLAY/DOWNLOAD HERE!]

YENNEFER’S BODY reviewed in High-Low Comics - 1/19/23

Rob Clough at High-Low Comics wrote an incredibly lovely review of YENNEFER’S BODY over at High-Low Comics for the 30 Days of CCS traditional end-of-year roundup! Thanks so much!! & I’m so hyped for all the love YENNEFER’S BODY has gotten so far! (:

Thanks for the amazing weekend, MICE - plus! at the panel on Collaboration and Scripting! - 10/27/22

I’m so excited to have exhibited at MICE in Boston, MA at table 14B this weekend! I was also on a panel that Sunday, discussing Collaboration and Scripting & the Standard Comic Script, moderated by Steenz, featuring fellow comics folks Ivy Noelle Weir, Barbara Thomas & Timothy Wall, Chad Sell, and Chan Chau! It was so lovely to see everyone & chat with Steenz, Ivy, Barbara, Timothy, Chad, & Chan on the panel!

Thanks for a wonderful panel, SPX 2022!!

I had such a wonderful time discussing Trans Identities in Fantasy & Fictional Storytelling with the extremely talented Bread Tarleton, Casey Nowak, and Tommi Parrish (moderated by L Nichols)! Talking with everyone was so great & I’m so happy to have tabled at this year’s SPX! <3

FAZBEAR FRIGHTS #1 (Scholastic Graphix, ‘22) OUT NOW!

Wherever fine and terrifying books are sold, including Barnes & Noble, Walmart, Target, Amazon, the Scholastic Book Fair, and in the creepy basement under the stairs (assuming you have a bookstore in the creepy basement under your stairs!) Thanks for making this FNAF anthology a bestseller, everyone!!! It was a TOTAL HONOR to draw!

2022 TOUR DATES!

I haven’t seen you since the (currently ongoing) plague! I’m super excited to be hitting up the East Coast and the Midwest this year!!

SPX (Small Press Expo) - Sept 17th & 18th, Bethesda, MD

CxC (Cartoon Crossroads Columbus) - Oct 8th & 9th, Columbus, OH

NonFiction Comics Fest, Burlington, VT, October 2022

MICE (Massachusetts Independent Comics Expo), Boston, MA, October 2022

 

It’s a Bestseller! FAZBEAR FRIGHTS #1 hits #1 on presales!

Holy guacamole you guys!! The FNAF: Fazbear Frights graphic novel hit #1 on Amazon’s YA action/adventure graphic novels list in March - and it’s not even out yet! Thank you so much for all this amazing support & I can’t WAIT for you to see all of our work!

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT: Fazbear Frights #1 - coming from Scholastic in September 2022!

I’m super pleased to announce I’ll be drawing & inking the comic OUT OF STOCK in the upcoming Five Nights at Freddy’s graphic novel from Scholastic!! I’m so excited to be a part of horror history & am totally ready to scare the bejesus out of you next spooky season!

Thanks for having me as a Teaching Artist in Residence, SAW!

Guess who taught a semester of comics fundamentals at SAW in Gainesville last Fall 2021? This guy! (Me. It’s me. I’m super excited!) I’ll be teaching a series of workshops as their Session 1 Artist in Residence, covering inking, storytelling, thumbnailing, and an interdisciplinary approach to comics storytelling, drawing from theatre, animation, acting, and good ol’ comics fundamentals!