Ryan Estrada

[Ryan Estrada]

I directed a movie! You can watch it right now! Chonkers is a B-Movie about a cute killer calico kaiju, made in 72 hours with a cell phone, crayons and love. Please enjoy!

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This is the cover for Broken Telephone a 240 page comic about a crime at an airport that follows people who were involved in the crime that occured. It can be jarring at first when reading because the story is not in chronological order, told in various different perspectives (as I have stated earlier), and has a variety of different artists for each chapter. However, I think these qualities are strengths for the story and it is very character driven. This comic made me personally think about my own morales and beliefs through characters that were trying to get through their lives while creating huge missteps in communication along the way.

This webcomic was written by @ryanestradadotcom

The after was created by various artists so if you’re curious check out the FREE comic at https://www.broken-telephone.com/comic/the-end

Also check out Ryan Estrada’s work and the other artists after finishing the comic, it’s a light read though you might need a bit of time to comprehend the story.

4.5/5 stars

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Oh no! I use Tumblr so rarely that I forgot to mention the biggest coolest project I’ve ever been involved in! A few years ago, I learned out of nowhere that my wife had been interrofated by the secret military police for helping run a secret, illegal fascism-fighting reading group under the thumb of an evil dictator.

We wrote a graphic novel about it called Banned Book Club! It is one of the best reviewed boos of the year, a #1 seller in YA History Comics, and Black Nerd Problems called it “The Daring Memoir That Comes Once A Generation!“

Read a preview on Publisher’s Weekly!

Get it anywhere you buy books, or find your local indie bookstore that has it here!

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I got to draw an official Star Trek comic about my friend Amy Rose who escaped from a cult who taught her that Star Trek was real.

read it here!

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2019 is a big year for the public domain!

For the first time in twenty years, a bounty of new works are being added to the public domain so that anyone can watch, read, listen to, remix, reuse and share them just like you would a fairy tale character or a Shakespeare play!

I love artists being compensated for their work, but I also love the public domain! So to celebrate, I’m choosing to skip the hundred-years-or-so wait and release some of my own work into the public domain.

Here’s my first Public Domain Drop! All of the characters I created for Frank: The Comic! You can use them however you want, as long as you don’t mention LiveJournal or their mascot.

How many of these am I going to do? I don’t know! It all depends on if interesting things come out of it!

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It’s been officially announced!
My middle-grade graphic novel Student Ambassador will be published by @ironcircuscomics and illustrated by Mexico’s 2017 National Young Graphic Novelist Award-winner @axureneas!! It will hopefully lead to a whole series!

This is a book I’ve been trying to get off the ground in one way or another since 1997. when I was a kid ambassador to Australia. Reality was a really nice package tour, but this book is the global adventure story I’d wished it had been.

I don’t know what was more exciting! The letter I got in 1996, which told me I was gonna be a student ambassador, or the e-mail I got earlier this year that told me this dream project inspired by it was going to happen!

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One of my biggest dreams has been to be on RIsk!

It’s the storytelling show where people tell true stories they never thought they’d dare to share. I have loved listening to the podcast version of the show, hearing stars like Kumail Nanjiani, Patton Oswalt, Samantha Bee, Sarah Silverman, Marc Maron and more comedy heroes than I can name… and also kidnapping victims, homeless sex workers, people in prison and other amazing people who share the deepest, most emotional moments of their lives to a nonjudgmental, empathetic, caring audience. This show has made me nearly fall off my bike laughing, and sob uncontrollably on the bus.

Next Friday, I get to be a part of it! I’ve been cast in RISK! Live in Ferndale, Michigan on August 3rd!

I am so thrilled NOT ONLY that my dream has come true that it happened on the week that the Risk! book was launched and is poised to become a NY Times bestseller, the week that they received a glowing writeup in the Wall Street Journal, and shortly after it was excerpted on This American Life. I AM SO EXCITED!

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From Sukjong Hong - read four cartoonists on what the peace process in Korea means to them here.

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I made a comic for this with my wife! Click on over to check it out!

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My new comic Little Fool Middle School Idiot is coming soon but the kids at the Gijang Library beat me to release by recoloring the panels into a short film called “Ryan Teacher On Fire”

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I am so excited to announce my latest project, Banned Book Club!

FUN FACT: This year, I found out that my wife of 5 years, best friend of 15 was in a super secret, fascism-fighting banned book club in college, and was even interrogated by the Korean CIA. I tweeted about it, @ironcircuscomics saw it, and offered us a book deal!

It is going to be a beautiful 150 page graphic novel illustrated by Ko Hyung-Ju. Watch for it in 2019!