It's no secret I am a slacker artist.

Professional procrastinator.

I honestly don't achieve optimum performance unless I have some impossible deadline sitting on my shoulders. Give me a month to work on something and I'm hitting the Playstation. Give me a day and I'm a drawing machine. I produce anywhere. At the airport. At a kinkos. On the subway. Whatever it takes to get the job done. Of course, afterward it's back to slacker-time...

Andy Robles was that guy that ALWAYS worked like he was on that deadline. At Otakon when us artists are in the hotel room with enough games and gaming consoles to be our own arcade, Andy would typically be on the floor in the corner somewhere drawing someone's commission.

When 5 o'clock hit, and some of the guys hit the bar for happy hour, Andy Robles was that guy that stays in the Artist Alley till well past closing.

Andy was almost always drawing.

Andy Robles also taught me how to play Halo. Andy played a mean game of Halo. That's a detail you might not get to look at him sitting in Artist's Alley.

I don't know how long he'd been suffering from the illness that took him. But then, I didn't get to know alot about Andy Robles.

We lost him far too soon.



He will be greatly missed.