- Kaare (rhymes with Atari) is a multi-hyphenate creator of film, TV and comics.
The first recipient of Canada's award for comics, "The Shuster", his writing on Marvel's Spider-Man: Reign was named one of the "Top 25 Spider-Man Stories of All Time" and "Top 10 Must-Read Spider-Man Stories".
For film, Sniper: Assassin's End, starring Tom Berenger, was released by Sony and hit #1 on iTunes and debuted at #1 in over 19 Netflix countries and was for a time "the most viewed action film in Netflix worldwide". His other film credits include, the Sean Astin led, Cabin Fever: Patient Zero, the sci-fi/thriller Altitude and "V" for ABCs of Death. TV directing credits include pilots for Siblings and Safehaven, as well as series work for V Wars (Netflix), Van Helsing and Aftermath and Mech X-4 for Disney.
Kaare has been featured in Vice, USA Today and Hollywood Reporter.
- IMDb mini biography by: Ben Hannah
- Andrews' cover for Peter Parker, Spider-Man #29 was used as inspiration for the famous kiss shot between Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst in the film, Spider-Man.
- He was the first recipient of The Shuster Award for Outstanding Artist in 2005 for his work on Spider-Man: Doctor Octopus.
- His wife was the inspiration for the character of Brenda Swanson in his comic "Iron Fist: The Living Weapon".
- Kaare Andrews was invited to participate in the filmmaking reality show On The Lot, but declined because of the overly restrictive contracts.
- Comparing comics and films: It's really the yin and yang of creativity, and I like both of them. I love collaborating with people - artists, writers, actors and producers - but I also love just being able to have a medium where you can do everything yourself. In movies, every day is about compromise and negotiations and kind of persuasion. In comics, it's all you. You have to compromise with yourself and negotiate with yourself and persuade yourself. So it's two very opposite ways of doing things. I like being alone sometimes and just doing the work, and sometimes I like being around 100 people and collaborating. They're both cool.
- I've been kind of doing both movies and comic books in equal measure for a while now. I broke into comics first and started doing the movie stuff after that, so it's kind of a second career.
- For me, martial arts movies are about a singular journey. I keep saying this, but Kung Fu isn't a team sport. It's about the enlightenment and journey of one man. Read Siddhartha, it's all in there. These are the origins of marital arts: One man versus another, one man versus a hundred,one man versus himself.
- About his Iron Fist comic "The Living Weapon": I hope you all pick up the book and have as much fun reading it as I did creating it.
- In films there's more opportunities in the horror genre, so that's where most of the work shows up. I love visual filmmakers, and horror is a great way to get into film; it's creative, its visual, and it's visceral.
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