Andy Riley: An Introduction

Great Lies to Tell Small Kids...Your Dad is Really A Yeti

Our Andy (Andrew) Riley Blog has been created to allow our Andy Riley customers to leave their feedback, as well as easily keep you up to date with the latest card additions here at Really Fab Cards.

The success of the book Great Lies To Tell Small Children has made it famous the world and so in keeping with the aims of our parent website, ReallyFabCards.com, to sell only well known branded cards, including the Andy Riley images taken from the book as a card range, was an easy decision to make.

Andy Riley Background

Great Lies to Tell Small Kids...Eggs talk to each other

Andy Riley (or Andrew Riley) is a British author, cartoonist and scriptwriter.

He and Kevin Cecil (with whom he has been friends since attending Aylesbury Grammar School) created and wrote the sitcoms Hyperdrive for BBC Two and Slacker Cats for the ABC Family Channel. Their other television work includes Black Books,the Comic Relief one-off special Robbie the Reindeer, for which he and Cecil won a BAFTA in 2000, Little Britain, Trigger Happy TV, So Graham Norton, Smack the Pony, The Armando Iannucci Shows and Spitting Image. Their Radio Four panel game The 99p Challenge ran for five series.



Great Lies to Tell Small Kids...We'll have fun all week.


As a cartoonist Riley has created four best-selling books, The Book of Bunny Suicides, Return of the Bunny Suicides, Great Lies To Tell Small Kids and Loads More Lies to Tell Small Kids, which have produced calendar, greetings card and poster spin-offs. Since 2002 he has drawn a weekly comic strip called Roasted in The Observer Magazine, a collection of which is released in book form in October 2007.

Free Gift Wrapping

We really appreciate the importance of lovely packaging and as the cards are so lovely, we want them to kept in a pretty place! So, as a special treat for your cards (very useful if they are a present to a Andy Riley fan), when you spend all 12 cards, your cards will be sent in a beautiful box.