Arts
It’s no coincidence that the most dramatic, life-changing occurrences in Downtown Los Angeles are taking place in the Arts District. The neighborhood is responsible for the creative caché the brings live-love-life value, and thus monetary value. An Arts District loft has shot up to an astounding $825,000 median sold price, with some recently selling for up to $2.4 million. Let’s look at the reason why the creative heart of the city is booming — it’s soul, THE ARTIST. #brotherandy #artist
Famous for decades as comedic horror host Armando Creeper, and as an actor photographer going by the name Andy Neal, today His Grace Brother Andy, as he now prefers to be called, has gained his latest notoriety as a 
prolific auteur film-maker with more than 360 films on Brother Andy’s Narcissus International Youtube Channel. Before video, he created more than 100,000 images as a photographer, plus countless paintings and sculptures as a fine artist. His digital collage image, “Jesus Chimp”, is considered by some art industry insiders to be a masterpiece of the Intriguism Art Method retro-futurism,” a creative process that he developed. The energetic creative produced highly effective educational films for The Palm Springs Art Museum and for Seeds, Inc. in San Diego, California, for people with cognitive disabilities. Andy has had a large impact on Downtown L.A. for decades, and recently, much of it behind the scenes as force of inspiration to the L.A. Loft Blog and the coming Loft Wars webcast series.
His background extends into feature films, having produced hundreds of movies in the last ten years as writer, producer, editor, and director, television. After appearances on ABC, local news stations in every Southern California major market, stage and live events, music videos and theme parks.
As an “artist whisperer,” Brother Andy has worked with more than 100 artists in the past seven years, including recording and archiving works, aiding in exhibitions, developing press packages, and designing graphics. He’s helped to mold and transform several artists in the Arts District and at The Brewery artist lofts, helping creatives and entrepreneurs to make hundreds of millions of dollars. His Grace is also a strident advocate of nudism, feminism and animal rights. Born in Fullerton, CA, he has lived in San Diego and Greater Los Angeles areas since 1990.
The Artist Brother Andy
He has been referred to as “The Man of a Million Faces,” with a motto of: “To educate and entertain, to encourage and inspire…”
Name: Andy Neal
Pen Name: Brother Andy
Birth Place: Fullerton, California
Nationality: United States
Occupation: Actor, Filmmaker, Artist
Period: 21st Century
Genre: Intriguism
Notable Works: Armando Creeper, Intriguism, Jesus Chimp, The Glorification of Gwen
Influences: Cassandra Peterson, Soupy Sales, Marcel Duchamp
Brother Andy is an American Artist, Filmmaker and Actor best known for his portrayal of the horror host character that he created in 1988, Armando Creeper. He gained fame on San Diego television station KFMB-TV wearing a zombie costume, and as host of San Diego Comic-Con, along with a weekly horror film movie presentation. Providing the super-human thrill of a monster, his dramatic ghoulish appearance is offset by his comical character, quirky quick-witted personality and humorous puns.
Biography
Early years — Andy Neal was born in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California, then grew up in Siloam Springs, AR. Out of place on the farm, he sought refuge from a troubled home life as a teen by delving into movie make-up, horror and science fiction prosthetics, catching the public’s attention while still attending Siloam Springs high school in 1974.
Career
Neal moved back to Southern California after graduating from Siloam Springs High School to work on his career in the arts. Neal posed for Playgirl Magazine, and was placed in Playgirl’s Pegasus 1986 A-Hunk-A-Day Desk Calendar for June 18 by Simon & Schuster’s Pocket Wallaby Books.
Later, his make-up and entertainment skills combined to create a famous comedic character.
Armando Creeper
In 1986, Andy Neal dished out heaping helpings of fright at an abandoned deli warehouse that his school fundraiser converted into a haunted house serving slices of terror. The boy whom nobody understood then made the move from experimenting with his own ghastly make-up that grabbed media-attention with sophisticated ape-planet appliances, to gaining professional employment as a horror make-up artist at the Knott’s Berry Farm Halloween haunted house events.
Inspired by Freddy Krueger, the wacky creep surfaced in 1989 as an idea hatched while helping to create monsters with horror make-up at Knott’s Scary Farm. Armando Creeper acted as the unofficial mascot of the LA Con impromptu actors panel. Andy Neal announced to the Los Angeles media that he was on his way to the big time by hosting charity events and attracting throngs of children. From 1991 to 2005, the Armando Creeper character hosted science-fiction and horror film festivals in several cities from Hollywood to Encinitas, CA, becoming known as the male equivalent of Elvira, Mistress of the Dark.
Andy Neal was noted as a show business veteran who came back to his roots to take part in local community theater after working in 22 films and 40 plays, along with work as a make-up artist for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, BS Women of the Wild West, and Movieland Wax Museums Haunted House. His Armando Creeper character was featured in the 1992 Amateur Monster Maker quarterly newsletter for the organization of SPFX Amateur and Professional Make-Up Artists. He inspired make-up artists when he was featured on the cover of Monster Maker Journal. Creeper entertained as the Hunchback of the Bridge at the San Marcos Renaissance Faire and as The Ghost of Christmas Past at the Escondido Renaissance Faire. Dressed as Master of the Dark, Neal’s character sometimes appears in a casket prop, and is often spotted driving a hearse as his personal vehicle, which Neal won as first prize from a Halloween costume contest.
Seen on KFMB-TV CBS Channel 8 San Diego, ABC TV, MTV and Hollywood local access cable television, charming huge audiences at comic conventions, art festivals and cultural events, and particularly booked up in late October, Armando Creeper became synonymous with Halloween. Creeper hosted Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors New York.
Neal gained notoriety for his fiendish brand of humor as a ghastly grin reaper, as a spokesman for Halloween, and for his GQ looks when out of costume. He has cited Hollywood films and dramatic artists as major influences on his development as an artist and entertainer who hosted San Diego Comic-Con events including art contests amid audiences up to 40,000 for several years, uniting comic book lovers from 1990 to 2004. Neal’s character has been a frequently occurring guest on Horror Kung-Fu Theatre, appearing with other comedic fictional characters such as Count Smokula on various episodes between 1995 and 2017. The comic horror celebrity has also hosted horror film premiers at AMC Theatres. He hosted art contests at the largest popular arts convention in the United States, Comic-Con International in San Diego. https://laloft.wufoo.com/cabinet/ejdwM2E1/gdRHTdo3Dl4%3D/tastecomiccomicconsandiegouniontribune.pdf#more
Television and Film
Andy Neal has written and produced 77 films, including Anhelar starring Kitten Natividad.
Intriguism Art Movement
Andy Neal began going by the name Brother Andy in 2007, the same time that he and three other Southern California artists began collaboration to create a new art movement called Intruigism | An Evening of Intriguism. Brother Andy began writing tell-all blogs and a newsletter called the Intriguism Manifesto about the nature of the movement that brings greater enlightenment by exposing greater truth about the past, present and future of humanity by combining retro with futuristic, layers, all media, anti-censorship openness and honesty. | The Intriguism Manifesto | December 1, 2016 | Intriguism Manifesto Newsletter
Recent Work (L.A. LOFT BLOG EXCLUSIVE FREE FOR A LIMITED TIME)
His latest films include:
The Glorification of Gwen (free for a limited time)
The Ghost of Room 13 (free for a limited time)
also Guns of the Dead, Circus of Death, Who Is This?, The Trappist, I Am Dead and Me Against the World. | VIDEOS
NEWS
Provocative artist Brother Andy is currently working with Rancho Mirage The Desert Rose Theatre on a wildly outrageous educational entertainment performance troupe called Rosy Palms Players. The “outside-the-box” stage play will dramatize the cause of uncensored multimedia programming with an aim to bringing awareness and support to the GLBTQ community at large. His Grace also teaches acting lessons to eager students at the theater.
INTERVIEWS
https://youtu.be/ML9vKm-liLQ and https://youtu.be/JojstyKSvEE
HISTORY
Andy Neal’s notoriety began in ’74 when he made the news as a teen for his skilled Planet of the Apes costume re-creation: Siloam Springs, Arkansas 72761, Thursday, November 7, 1974 Teen’s Make-Up Is Beginning Of Vocation
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