00:02Andy Griffiths has a mind that quickly escalates to absurdity.
00:06Whenever I picked up a pen, the child inside me would go,
00:11ah great, my chance to come out.
00:13That's why millions of kids love his books,
00:16and why he now has a four metre high 3D printed sculpture
00:20of himself looking at himself, looking at himself.
00:23Andy Andy, created by Ronnie Van Hout,
00:26captures how Griffiths' inner kid still runs right amidst all his adulting.
00:31That kid has a lot of time to waste and to wonder
00:35and to just enjoy the ride rather than trying to get to the end.
00:40It's a bittersweet honour, coming just days after the death
00:44of his long time friend and collaborator, illustrator Terry Denton.
00:48I don't want to be glib because I miss him a lot,
00:51but his spirit is in those books
00:55and I'm really happy about that.
00:58130 trinkets, books and tunes give us a peek behind the input
01:02that's generated his absurdly brilliant output,
01:05including the killer koala.
01:07You can make people go, ah, like that,
01:09and it's that, ah, where you're seeing the world fresh again
01:14and you go, wow.
01:15Infinite Andes, keeping it surreal.
01:18Ah, that's so beautiful.
01:20We'll get back.
01:21And you're watching, I'm thinking.
01:21I'm this past year.
