Cartoonist, Illustrator, Video Graphics designer, Kurt M. Andersen attended the American Academy of Art from 1986-89. His interests in the whimsically macabre all started in 1971 when on a family trip to Disneyland. He was too frightened to enter the famous Haunted Mansion ride but on that same trip he received a series of postcards that featured photos of some of the ghostly humors inside, and the regret has been eating at him his entire life. At some point in his youth Mad Magazine became Kurt’s "Bible" and between the brilliance of the artists featured in Mad and the Japanese monster movies he would watch on TV, his artistic interests were sealed.

Kurt went to work for Stern Pinball Inc. in 1991 illustrating the cabinet and play-field for the HBO licensed game Tales from the Crypt. He moved over to the digital realm and became an animator of Dot Matrix displays. The licensed games he had worked on ranged from Star Wars to Frankenstein to South Park and finally The Lord of the Rings. In 2004 Kurt moved to Reno, Nevada and now illustrates and designs the art featured in video slot machines for International Game Technology. His most recent games include Kitty Glitter, Godzilla, and The Little Shop of Horrors.