Ryan Estrada

Ryan Estrada is the Eisner-nominated, Freeman Award-winning author of graphic novel such as Banned Book Club and Occulted. He has written for Star Trek, Popeye, Flash Gordon, and Garfield. He is a three time Moth Story Slam winner. More importantly, he has traveled all over the world doing incredibly stupid things, so he has a lot of stories to share.

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updated: 04/07/2023

Away With Words

Ryan is trying to communicate with his dying father in law, who only speaks Korean. He uses Google translate but it has ...

05/16/2023

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Roasting on an Open Fire

Determined to prove he’s a big boy and not jealous of his new baby brother, little Ryan tries to help out with cut...

12/20/2022

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The Permanent Halloween

While making his costume “accident victim” for Halloween when he was 12, Ryan lit his shirt on fire, only, while wea...

10/31/2022

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Play, Pray, Love

In Korea, Ryan was approached by a couple insisting he go with them. He thought they were arranging group sex. Then he r...

02/22/2022

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Self Offload

Ryan tries to impress a girl with a RomCom stunt of deboarding a plane about to take off for her. Security does not appr...

06/21/2021

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The Idiot in the Cupboard

Ryan enjoyed playing pranks on his co-workers. But the day he hid in a cupboard to surprise everyone, things did not go...

03/23/2020

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Do You Hear What I Hear?

Throughout his childhood, Ryan worked to solve the mystery of the elves. If they could come into his house every Christm...

12/24/2019

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Plagued

A bad vacation isn’t the end of the world, but this time Ryan truly thought that it was. The true story of a fake ...

10/30/2018

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Chad

Getting 100 free hours of America Online was cool, but Ryan wasn’t. He wanted the other kids on the playground to ...

08/20/2018

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