Andy Riley is the hugely popular author and artist of a series of best-selling cartoon books. Lucky Heather is his self-published mini-comic.

His comedy scriptwriting (in partnership with Kevin Cecil) has won two BAFTAS, for the sitcom Black Books in 2005 and the animated special Robbie The Reindeer in 2000. Other television writing credits include Little Britain, The Armando Iannucci Shows, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack The Pony, The Armstrong and Miller Show, Bob and Margaret, Spitting Image, Katy Brand’s Big Ass Show, Alexei Sayle’s Merry Go Round, Man Stroke Woman and Big Train. Their Radio 4 panel game, The 99p Challenge, won a Sony silver award.

As well as writing comedy, they are experienced writers of feature-length animation: their credits include Gnomeo and Juliet(currently in production for Miramax) and The Pirates! (in production at Aardman). They did an uncredited rewrite of Tim Burton’s The Corpse Bride.