Ryan Cecil Smith

Ryan Cecil Smith is a wonderful drawer with a great observational eye that works its way into the very fine fictions of his comics (see Weird Schmeird and SF#1-2). His limited use of colour combined with halftones works perfectly in print and so the translation from sketchbook to screen to zine is a happy one. There is no let-up from the quality of those original sketches, which are like a direct line to his ideas (most of which seem to be making up for any narrative shortcomings in computer games or epic science fiction).