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.