Andy Price (artist)

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Andy Price
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Andy Price at the 2014 BronyCon convention
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Artist
Notable works
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic
Spouse(s)Alice

Andy Price is an American comic artist, currently employed by IDW Publishing. He illustrates the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic comic.

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Career

Price acted as the artist (along with writer Katie Cook) behind issues #1-4 of My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic , a comic based on the popular children's TV show of the same name. [1] [2] Price and Cook also created the one-shot My Little Pony: Micro Series issue centered on Rarity, the unicorn, and Price wrote and drew the final installment of the My Little Pony: Friends Forever series.

Price has done illustration work for DC Comics, Marvel Comics, Innovation Comics, and the Rittenhouse Archives. [3] His other comics work includes licensed titles based on the television series Quantum Leap and WordGirl . [4] [5]

Price is a graduate of Austin High School in Decatur, Alabama, and the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art. [3] He currently resides in Madison, Alabama, with his wife, Alice. [4]

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