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Biography
Wow! The dreamiest of TIME.com's stable of columnists, Andrew D. Arnold
consistently surprises people with both his athletic build and his
tremendous drive. With fingers knotting into a fist, Arnold hisses through
his
teeth, "I won't rest until I become the Walter Winchell of comix."
His comicbook reading began as a child with the Tintin books and Stan
Lee's "The Origins of Marvel Comics." Then, in 1990, he was introduced to
Daniel Clowes' "Eightball" and has been collecting and reading
alternative graphic literature ever since.
But it wasn't until 1996 that his career in comix journalism began with an
almost mystical vision. "I thought, 'Huh. I should put out a fanzine,'"
Arnold says with his face in profile, his eyes pointed heavenward. As
bold and ambitious as its creator, "The Comix Review" launched as a
Boston-area freebie with the mandate to cover all the alternative
comicbooks released each month. Suddenly, after two huge six-page issues,
and halfway
through the third, he was forced to quit because, "it was too much work."
Undaunted, Arnold decided to volunteer his desperately-needed services to
a local semi-monthly, freebie "throwaway" newspaper, "Boston Rock." His
column, "Hooked-On Comix," generated a silent buzz in the industry and
caught the eye of New York University's Graduate School of Journalism when
he sent them an application and photocopies. Before graduating in 1998
Arnold started work at TIME.com. Very quickly after two years, in spite
of popular demand, he revved up his engines with the weekly "TIME.comix."
A Taurus born in the Year of the Dog, he lives in Brooklyn and,
incredibly, remains single. "I'm just trying to get to know me,"
says the lonely bachelor.
Fave color: Off-White
Fave Breakfast Cereal: Grape Nuts
Books published: none
Many thanks to Ezra Chasin for providing the illustration for the logo.
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