Andrew Strong

Andrew Stephen Strong (born November 2nd, 1976) is an American cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for the show Alan & Adian and Penguin Invasion.

Early Life
Strong was born in San Diego as the son of Chris Strong (September 8th, 1960 -), and Claudia Strong (nee Reasoner) and is the older brother to Miles Simerlink (nee Strong-Reasoner) (born February 16th, 1980). As a child, he had a very big passion in the study of arts. He would spend his time making flip-books, doodles, or making comics. Strong attended the K-12 school, Mount Everest academy and graduated in 1994.

Career
After graduating from Academy of Art University in 1998 for majoring in art, he decided to pursue the passion of becoming an animator and started off his career by making bumpers for Fox Kids and Nickelodeon. A couple of months later, he met Conner Jones and Strong was hired on the 1999 film The King of Heroes, a film that would later be released by Nickelodeon Movies. On the set of the movie, he met writer Adriana Strong (nee Palmer). Several months after the movie was finished, him and Adriana got to work on a new series called Alan & Adian. Jones then asked Andrew to help him with the crew on the new cartoon, Jones was producing called The Alpha Squad. The two then made an agreement to both help on each other's shows. Later on, a demo pilot for Alan & Adian was pitched to three American children's channels like Fox Kids, Toon Disney, and Cartoon Network. The three rejected it, however, the pilot was found by Mary Harrington (founder of Nickelodeon Animation Studios) and it was accepted onto Nickelodeon and later onto Nicktoons. A few years later, production of Alan & Adian was put on halt because Strong pitched an 8-minute demo pilot to The WB, and it was accepted onto the network later premiering Janurary 11th, 2003.

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