Andy Warner is an author and cartoonist. His nonfiction books include Do Aliens Speak Physics (about math and extraterrestrials), This Land is My Land (a history of utopias), Spring Rain (a memoir about revolutions), and the NY Times Best Selling Brief Histories of Everyday Objects, which is about the things around us that we take for granted. His YA history series, Andy Warner’s Oddball Histories, includes Pests and Pets (which is about animals and humans) and Spices and Spuds (which is about people and plants). His books have been translated into Russian, Chinese, Korean, French and Spanish.

He was a contributing editor at The Nib from 2016 until it ceased publication in 2023, and teaches cartooning at the California College of the Arts, Stanford University and The Animation Workshop in Denmark.

His work has been published widely, including by Slate, American Public Media, Popular Science, KQED, IDEO.org, The Center for Constitutional Rights, UNHCR, UNRWA, UNICEF, Google X and Buzzfeed.

He was a recipient of the 2018 Berkeley Civic Arts Grant and the 2019 and 2021 and 2023 Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park Artist-in-Residency.

He works in a garret room in South Berkeley and comes from the sea.