Andrew Hussie facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Andrew Hussie
Hussie in 2010
Born	(1979-08-25) August 25, 1979 (age 45)
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Temple University
Occupation	Author and artist
Notable work	MS Paint Adventures

Andrew Hussie (born August 25, 1979) is an American author and artist. He is best known for creating Homestuck. This is a unique online comic, called a webcomic, that looks like a text-based adventure game. He also created other similar works on his website, MS Paint Adventures.

Career

Early Online Stories

Andrew Hussie started sharing his work online in 2006. His first project was Jailbreak. He posted it on an online discussion board. It looked like a simple computer game where you type commands. Hussie would draw quick pictures and write text based on what users suggested.

In 2007, Hussie made his own website, MS Paint Adventures. This site hosted his comics. The first three stories there were Jailbreak, Bard Quest, and Problem Sleuth. Problem Sleuth became very popular. It had over 1,600 pages and Hussie sometimes made up to 10 pages a day!

Homestuck

Hussie created the very popular webcomic Homestuck. It started in April 2009 and finished in April 2016. The story is about four kids who play a computer game called Sburb. By playing, they accidentally cause the end of the world.

Homestuck was special because it used many different things. It had images, text, Flash animations (moving pictures), and interactive parts. At first, like his other works, Homestuck let readers suggest what characters should do. But Hussie later changed this. He said it became too hard to tell a clear story with so many ideas. Even so, he still looked at fan blogs and online groups for small ideas to add.

Hussie usually updated Homestuck about three times a week. But sometimes there were long breaks. One break lasted over a year starting in 2013. Another long break began in 2015. Hussie once said working on Homestuck felt like an "all-encompassing lifestyle." He meant it took up almost all his waking hours.

Vice magazine said Homestuck was "wildly popular" for its seven years. In 2011, about 600,000 different people visited it each day. By 2015, over 1 million people visited daily. Hussie explained that as the fan base grew, everything became more debated. He said fans would discuss and argue about what things meant. He felt this was part of the fun between him and the readers.

By the end, Homestuck had over 800,000 words across more than 8,000 pages. Fans helped a lot, even creating all the music for the comic. Over a hundred musicians and artists worked on it. Hussie also hired artists for important updates. By 2011, there were eight albums of Homestuck music.

Vice also noted that Homestuck was known for its "complicated" story. The plot was partly shaped by reader ideas. PBS's Ideas Channel compared Homestuck to the famous book Ulysses. This was because of its complex and detailed storytelling.

Homestuck Sequels and Spinoffs

The Homestuck Epilogues was a story released in April 2019. It was only text and had 190,000 words. Hussie wrote it with four other creators.

A sequel to Homestuck called Homestuck^2: Beyond Canon started in late 2019. Hussie planned the story, but a team of writers wrote it. It was updated regularly for about a year, then paused. In 2024, it was renamed Homestuck: Beyond Canon and started regular updates again with a new team.

A video game based on Homestuck called Hiveswap was announced in 2012. It raised over $2.4 million through Kickstarter. It was supposed to come out in 2014 but had many delays. It even changed from 3D to 2D art years into development. Hiveswap was split into four parts. The first part came out in 2017, and the second in 2020. Another related game series, Hauntswitch, is also planned. Two other games based on Homestuck are Hiveswap Friendsim and Pesterquest.

Hussie was a managing member of a company called What Pumpkin, LLC. In early 2020, Hussie officially left What Pumpkin. He wanted to work on projects not related to Homestuck. He still owns the Homestuck stories and characters. However, he no longer works on any new Homestuck projects.

Other Works

Hussie also created a visual novel called Psycholonials. It was announced in December 2020 and its last part came out in April 2021. Hussie said it was his way of talking about American society.

Personal Life

Hussie as his alter ego "D-Clussie"

Andrew Hussie was born on August 25, 1979. He studied computer science at Temple University. He has mentioned that he has moved more than fifty times in his life. In 2010, he was living in western Massachusetts.

Works

Videos

• Andrew Hussie helped create funny edits of Star Trek: The Next Generation in the late 2000s.
• Andrew worked with his brother on a video series about a strange Bigfoot researcher. It was called Barty's Brew-Ha-Ha (2006 to 2011).

Webcomics by Andrew Hussie

• Team Special Olympics
• 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)
• Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff
• The Homestuck Epilogues (April 13, 2019, to April 20, 2019)
• Homestuck: Beyond Canon (September 25, 2019, to present)

Published Books

• Whistles, Book One (The Starlight Calliope) (can be found online)
• Problem Sleuth (Five books covering all 22 chapters)
  • Volume One: Compensation, Adequate
  • Volume Two: This is Complete BS
  • Volume Three: Suitor to the Sodajerk's Confidante
  • Volume Four: Black Liquid Sorrow
  • Volume Five: Sepulchritude
• Homestuck
  • By TopatoCo (three books covering Acts 1, 2, and 3)
    • Volume One
    • Volume Two
    • Volume Three
  • By Viz Media
    • Book 1: Act 1 & Act 2
    • Book 2: Act 3 & Intermission
    • Book 3: Act 4
    • Book 4: Act 5 Act 1
    • Book 5: Act 5 Act 2 Part 1
    • Book 6: Act 5 Act 2 Part 2
    • The Homestuck Epilogues: Volume Meat / Volume Candy (2020)
• Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff

Video Game Projects

• Hiveswap
• Namco High (2013)
• Hiveswap Friendsim (2018)
• Pesterquest (2019)
• Psycholonials (2021)

See Also

In Spanish: Andrew Hussie para niños