Casey and Andy

Casey and Andy
Author(s)Andy Weir
WebsiteGalactanet
Current status/scheduleCompleted[1]
Launch date28 February 2001
End date25 August 2008
Publisher(s)LiveJournal, Galactanet
Genre(s)Action, comedy, superhero
Followed byCheshire Crossing

Casey and Andy (stylised as Casey & Andy, or simply C&A) is a webcomic series written and illustrated by Andy Weir. Following the adventures of two mad scientists (fictionalized versions of Weir himself and his best friend Casey Grimm) and of their friends and acquaintances (such as writer Jennifer Brozek), it was typically updated three times a week, on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays throughout the early 2000s, primarily with a gag-a-comic format, including ongoing storylines and running gags.[2]

The comic has a strong flavor of science and history fact, often from obscure sources, as well as featuring strong parallels between Weir's and Grimm's actual lives and the events in the comic. Some strips are inspired by then-current events, such as with the Opportunity mission to Mars, the 2003 invasion of Iraq and the 2004 United States presidential election. The strip was turned made into a roleplaying game titled GURPS Casey and Andy for the GURPS system by David Morgan-Mar in conjunction with Weir, its PDF sourcebook being published by Steve Jackson Games,[3][4] inspiring a "Casey & Andy approach" to death in the MMORPG genre.[5]

On 1 May 2006, Weir announced that the strip would come to an end on Strip 666, due to Weir's recent dread for creating each strip to standard and of the potential for a downturn in the quality of the humor, and also so he could devote his time to Cheshire Crossing, his new webcomic project. Casey and Andy concluded with its 666th strip on 25 August 2008. The character of Bob was later featured in Weir's 2017 novel Artemis.[6]

On 31 December 2021, a Casey and Andy subreddit, created and overseen by David Morgan-Mar, Casey Grimm, and John Gillman, with Weir's approval, was created for the social news and discussion website Reddit, publishing an official crossover comic with the Tredlocity science fantasy webcomic Val and Isaac, starring the character of Space Dread, in January 2022, along with an authorised offline-accessible Mega archive of the webcomic.[7][8][9][10]

  1. ^ Garratt, Sheryl (26 August 2019). "Andy Weir on writing an accidental best-seller". The Creative Life. Retrieved 26 August 2019.
  2. ^ Ashley, Berty (28 October 2022). "Quiz — Easy Like Sunday Morning". The Hindu. Retrieved 28 October 2022. Andy Weir authored a humour web comic called Casey and Andy, featuring fictionalised 'mad scientist' versions of himself and his friends.
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  6. ^ "I am Andy Weir, author of The Martian, and my new book Artemis, out now. AMA!". Reddit. 4 December 2017. Retrieved 4 December 2017. u/ManyThingsDeck: Is the character Bob in Artemis an in-joke for your friends who know the story of "And Bob was there too"? u/sephalon: I planned to do that, but then I forgot to put "Bob was there, too" in the book! :(
  7. ^ "A tribute to Casey and Andy, by u/tredlocity (feat. Space Dread)". Reddit. 1 January 2022. Retrieved 1 January 2022.
  8. ^ Grimm, Casey (15 January 2022). "Casey and Andy Index — Casey's Webcomics". Gamer Geek. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  9. ^ "An index I assembled from a post in the now-dead forum, salvaged thanks to the Internet Archive". Reddit. 15 January 2022. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  10. ^ "Casey & Andy comic archive!". Reddit. 19 January 2022. Retrieved 19 January 2022. u/ZilockeTheandil: OK, as I mentioned in my other post, here's the COMPLETE Casey & Andy archive, divided into storylines/whatever. These are standard .zip files, renamed to have a .cbz extension which is readable by pretty much all comic book reading apps. Thanks to u/CaseyG, who was nice enough to reach out to Andy [Andy Weir] to make certain I had permission to post this.