Andrew Hussie

Hussie left What Pumpkin in early 2020

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Behind the scenes of Homestuck

1. He wrote 8,116 pages – Homestuck has more words than War and Peace and Les Misérables combined. And he drew it all himself in MS Paint.
2. Blood color matters – The troll caste system with blood colors was invented because he needed to differentiate characters without having to draw them in detail. Maximum MS Paint economy.
3. The Pesterlogs were real – When readers suggested actions, he took them seriously. Once someone wrote "HIT IT WITH A CHAIR" and that became canon.

Hussie as a person 4. He doesn't like to appear – He very rarely gives interviews or appears in public. At the 2010 convention, he went on stage wearing a mask. 5. She has a brother – but she hardly ever talks about her family. She keeps everything very separate from her online life. 6. He founded What Pumpkin LLC – It's the company that manages Homestuck, Hiveswap, and the games. He's the manager.

Unexpected data 7. He used to make role-playing comics – Problem Sleuth was literally a role-playing game played on a forum. People would type commands and he would respond with the story. 8. Homestuck has an official soundtrack with over 200 tracks – and 90% of it was fan-made. Hussie hired them and gave them creative freedom. The Homestuck Vol. 1 album was released before the comic book series ended. 9. He pioneered the "interactive webcomic" – In 2009, that didn't exist. He combined Flash animations, games, music, and text. That's why some say he anticipated the "rejuvenation of adventure games." Random personal stuff 10. His height is 1.61m and he weighs 64kg – Data that appears on his official Wikipedia page. 11. He has a second pseudonym: D-Clussie – He used it in forums before Homestuck blew up. 12. Homestuck ended in 2016 after 7 years – April 25, 2009 to April 13, 2016. 2,500+ days of updates.

Bonus fact: Hussie said that Homestuck was his way of exploring themes like identity, religion, and destiny, but always wrapped in absurd jokes and references to the 2009 internet.

About him and Homestuck

1. Computer Science Graduate – He studied at Temple University before going into comics. It shows in how he built the entire Sburb system.
2. MS Paint Adventures isn't just Homestuck – it's the format he invented for writing stories as if they were turn-based video games. Homestuck is the fourth and longest installment, but before that he created Problem Sleuth and Jailbreak.
3. Compared to James Joyce – Its dense and complex narrative has led to Homestuck being compared to Ulysses. And yes, it was also on Foreign Policy's 2012 list of the 100 most influential global thinkers.

Random personal data 4. He is 1.61m tall – Yes, he is quite short. 5. Pseudonym D-Clussie – This is how he signed his name before he was famous. 6. Virgo and from the year of the Goat – Born on August 25, 1979 in Massachusetts. 7. Super private life – For years, even his exact age was unknown. People deduced it from old posts on his Blogspot and Formspring.

Before fame 8. He made Star Trek parodies – Together with Jan Van dem Hemel, he created parody videos of Star Trek: The Next Generation. 9. He lives in western Massachusetts – that's where his company, What Pumpkin LLC, which handles everything for Homestuck, is located. 5bc2

The impact of Homestuck 10. Fan-made inspiration – The official music of Homestuck is mostly composed by fans and was sometimes used within the story itself. 11. Readers were in control – Homestuck originally functioned like a forum game: readers gave orders and Hussie carried them out. That's why there's so much "pesterlog" and crazy decisions.

He is enigmatic, highly motivated, ingenious, and metanarrative, frequently portraying himself as a manipulative and comical author.

He is an adult with brown hair, he wears a green t-shirt with a drawing of a black bird with a white sword, gray pants and black shoes, white eyes, he has no mouth, he is the creator of homestuck, a webcomic page that can be read and viewed.