About

I am an illustrator and comic artist working out of the San Francisco Bay Area. My work has seen print in the East Bay Express, the Lavapunch comics anthology, and the Missed Connections and Bridge Project anthologies. On the web, my work has appeared on the frontpages of XIP, Retrocrush, Somethingawful, and creativeskin.

Right now, I am currently working as a storyboard artist at Cartoon Network Studios on "Regular Show" by JG Quintel. It's been a culture shock fer sure-- for one, I can't get over the fact that people are paying me cash monies to draw, and for two, it's impossible to get a decent banh mi in Burbank! I used to work in Silicon Valley as a web developer at National Semiconductor. I still remember a lot of HTML, CSS, Java, PHP, Perl, JSP and javascript, HONEST!!!

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What I've been doing for the last 7 months

CN finally put up the clip of Regular Show they showed at SDCC! Well, it's a bunch of clips strung together. 

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/video/index.html?episodeID=8a250ab02a424622012a483a781e0060

I did clean-up on some of this stuff! The show premieres in a little less than a month on September 6th. 

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Posted: Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:25:42 -0700

Post its for POST IT SHOW 4!

Hellen and me just sent off a ton of post its to the POST IT SHOW 4 at GR2 Los Angeles. It goes from December 5, 2009 - January 13, 2010.

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Posted: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:04:00 -0800

Calvin fucked up

Hey everybody, it has come to my attention that some orders for Ramble On! have slipped through the cracks and have not been fulfilled. Blame the UI clusterfuck that is yahoo mail, where I can't even tell the difference between a Zimbabwean Trying to Scam Me vs. Somebody Actually Trying to Give me Cash Monies. I have since changed my paypal inbox to my gmail account where I will be super alert and vigilant about orders because of the clean UI and excellent spam filter.

I sent some of the delinquent orders out this morning with some extra goodies as an apology, so if I have inadvertently scammed you out of your $4, please contact me!

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Posted: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 18:11:36 -0800

Electric Ant #2

Hey dudes, I will be at APE this weekend (BANG GANG table) with a zine called "COMIX QUEST"-- it's basically a collection of older comics with a common sci/fi fantasy bent. 

I'll also be there to support my pal Ryan's new perfect bound zine ELECTRIC ANT for which I did a handful of drawings. I took a look at it on the plane back from SPX and I can vouch for it's kickassitude-- the theme was BODY HORROR. Forgive me if posterous fudges the below HTML but this is the "buy" link: 

<br> CLICK TO BUY ELECTRIC ANT #2!

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Posted: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:03:14 -0700

DS-10 Ringo, Te Amo (Yeah, Yeah, Yeah) !

Ringo.m4a Listen on Posterous

Recently I discovered this great Cher paean to the least understood Beatle via Hellen (from the 60s: Ringo, I Love You) and I decided to cover it on my DS-10. It's not the whole song (i ran out of memory for patterns) but it's most of it. The Kraftwerk-esque breaks were artistic license of course. There's a new version of the DS-10 coming out in September that doubles the amount of Analog Synths you can have and doubles the drum sounds. Only for the DSi unfortunately though :(

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Posted: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:33:47 -0700

In NYC this week for MoCCA!

I'll be showing this Kirby inspired piece + two older pieces at the Panelists show at GRNY on Saturday, as well as the MoCCA comics fest this weekend for the first time ever! This trip is mostly for leisure and mostly came out of a series of happy coincidences so I didn't prepare any new stuff, but I'll be selling Ramble On! and the Game Over/Continue Fake Instruction Manual I made for Stumptown a month ago. Hellen and I will be demoing the game we made again, but only for as long as my Macbook battery lasts (3 hours or so) since apparently at the Armory you literally are not allowed to put a plug into another plug.

"FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - Group Art Show Opening/Book Receptions
Panelists V June 6 - June 24, 2009 Reception: Saturday, June 6, 2009 at 6:30 p.m. Giant Robot Gallery 437 East 9th Street Between 1st Ave. & Ave. A, in the East Village New York, New York 10009
(212) 674-GRNY (4769) | grny.net Giant Robot is proud to present the Panelists V art show and as well as a reception for three new comic books at the Giant Robot Gallery in the East Village.

The follow-up to the popular series puts a spotlight on indie-comics creators from across the country, ranging from stapled-and-folded stars of DIY to art-gallery superstars. The show will feature original illustrations, paintings, mixed-media work, and special surprises from an assortment of contributors--including many Eisner and Ignatz Award nominees and winners. This event coincides with the Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art Festival."

If you're in the area, stop by!  We are at table 810 with Damien Jay, and Corrine Mucha.

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Posted: Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:52:57 -0700

TEST

test to see how posterous handles rich text:

• lets
• see
• how
• bullets 
• are handled

how about links?

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Posted: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:19:29 -0700

15 minutes...

I've had my browser open to CADIE's blog and I've been hitting F5 periodically:

This is bad... I have the panda music playing in the backrgound... but.. its so fun!!!!!
Cuate Nunez 4/1 2:36pm

It looks like a myspace page with Japanese anime porn music.
jjmiller878 4/1 1:45pm

I <3

Sapacious 4/1

has anybody noticed that u cannot turn that annoying music off
Unknown 4/1

 I never thought I'd see 4chan and SA memes on google's site. Ryan you are a genius sir.

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Posted: Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:18:24 -0700

Curriculum Vitae

Education

UC Berkeley '03: B.A. Cognitive Science (Computational focus)

Skills

HTML, CSS, Javascript, Photoshop, Illustrator, Web & User Interface Design, Drawing, Watercolor Painting

Shows

Projects

Work Experience

Haunts

• XIP Hypermedia Conglomerate
• The Post it Project
• Drawing Meats
• Kirsten Academy
• Baau

Kin

• Vic
• Ray

Pals

• Alex Ahad
• Andy Ristaino
• Anthony Wu
• Brad Winters
• Coey Kuhn
• Damien Jay
• Derek Yu
• Evon Freeman
• Gabriel Gilder
• Gariet Cowin
• Geoff Vasile
• Genevieve Tsai
• Hellen Jo
• Ian Sy
• Jason Martin
• Jason Rainey
• Jenn Yin
• Jill Ogle
• Joey Sayers
• John Issacson
• Jonathan Hill
• Kiyoshi Okuma
• Mari Naomi
• Meg Hunt
• Minty Lewis
• Rina Ayuyang
• Robert Syrett
• Ryan Germick
• Ryan Sands
• Teerawat Palanitisena
• Willy Hwang