Andrew Racho books
Andrew Racho is an American author and performer best known in the writing world for his parody book series “This Is Not A Kid’s Book.” He was a writer for Comedy Central as well. His books often explore themes of lightness and darkness, often contrasting whimsical comedy and form with dark and sobering themes.
Quick Pitch: Parody kids books with shocking twists, and dark humor for adults.
This Is Not A Kid’s Book is a series of funny short stories in the style of kids books. Popular titles include My Weekend With Grandma, Sleepover, Hide and Seek, and The Perfect Gift.
With over 200 million views across the internet (thanks to Lyndsey Wright, LaurenZSide, and everyone reading the books), This Is Not A Kid’s Book became the #1 best selling book on Amazon comedy in March 2025. In fact, four of the books in the same week held #1, #4, #6, and #8. Villains such as Katie and Haroldrietta both have their own fan villain Wikis. Sleepover even has its own fan made parody recreation.
Warnings: These are not for kids. These are for the adults. They contain lots of bad language, graphic violence, all the good stuff. Check my bookstore for kid-friendly versions.
Quick Pitch: Contemplative “shower thoughts” humor turning anxiety into comedy.
Irrational Thoughts is a series of books and shorts exploring his anxieties, wandering mind, and the thoughts that just pop into his head.
What if you gave the intrusive thoughts have a place to live?
Well, you’d have about three books full of dirty jokes, a bunch of live action shorts questioning the existential, and some cartoons about the spiraling thoughts spaghetti-ing their way through Andrew’s head.
Warnings: These are for the adults. Adult humor, adult situations, potty humor, toilet talk, and sometimes some cute jokes too.
Quick Pitch: A graphic novel about a graphic designer who gets stuck with a ghost attachment, which sends ripple effects throughout his life and the underworld.
Mark and Doug is a series of graphic novels that answers the age old question. What would happen if you saw a ghost while on the toilet?
Mark discovers that answer and finds himself with a ghost attachment: Doug. Doug is the most foul-mouthed, selfish person living the afterlife. And the two must learn to exist together.
While it starts out as a silly adventure comedy, what it grows into is an exploration of friendships in adulthood, loneliness, and existential dread as two adult men find meaning in each other’s lives.
This is Andrew’s first graphic novel and first manga. Stay tuned as these make their way into the world!
Warnings: Adult humor, adult situations, graphic nudity, graphic humor, really bad language, and Doug saying the most unhinged and inappropriate things ever.
Quick Pitch: Silly one-off comics about being and adult and whatever gross jokes were in Andrew’s brain at that time in life.
Convenience Store diet loosely was about three millennial friends in adulthood, but really became Andrew’s sandbox to write one-off comedy comic strips.
You can still pick up the “Best Of” today on Amazon!
What started off as a self-challenge to publish a new comic each week became an experiment in creating both comics and cartoons.
Warnings: Yeah, the humor is gross and icky and full of bad language, adult humor, adult situations, some graphic nudity, and all the fluids.
Quick Pitch: Animated sketch comedy series on Comedy Central.
Andrew Racho wrote on TripTank, featuring all the famous people and comedians of the day such as Larry David, Zack Galafianakis, Bob Odenkirk, Ben Lepley, and Misty Lee.
Andrew’s sketch series Ricky the Rocket Ship even showed up in the New York Times!
Warnings: This show features lots of mid 2010’s crass humor, bad language, violence, adult situations… just everything.
Stock Image Commentary
Andrew didn’t photograph this image. He just picked the template and this lady showed up. Someone was pointing to a note on her desk. The note says, “punch a puppy.” Sandra (that’s now the woman’s name) wrote that as a “joke.” With enough spicy margaritas she might’ve done it. But she wasn’t planning on it. The person who pointed is her boss Jackson. While at first Sandra thought she would get fired, Jackson was testing the waters to see if she’d be up for it. But this became an HR nightmare for Sandra. Would she go to HR and admit she wrote about punching a puppy, knowing she couldn’t actually pass a lie detector test about her intentions, all to expose her boss? Or would she stay quiet?
Also, let’s just note that in this scenario there’s a best friend who lives in outer space.
Anyway, nothing happened because it’s not real. But I’d like to imagine an ending where they both admit to joking, a puppy walks in, and we cut to black before ever knowing their real intentions.
Oh yeah. Warnings. This section has crude, irreverent humor.