Johnny Ryan

Johnny Ryan's utterly unpretentious taboo-tackling is an infectious and hilarious bombardment of political incorrectness, taking full advantage of the medium's absurdist potential for maximum laughs. In an age when the medium is growing up and aspiring to more mature and hoity-toity literary heights, Ryan builds on the visceral tradition that cartooning has had on our collective funny bone for over a century. Johnny was born in Boston, Massachusetts and grew up in shitty Plymouth, just a mile away from the Pilgrim Nuclear Power Plant. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife.

"Johnny Ryan is the funniest cartoonist working today." – Peter Bagge

"I think his comics are a riot! Highly recommended." – Daniel Clowes

"Generally speaking, [Johnny Ryan's] comics are really dumb & infantile, and prove beyond a doubt that chemical pollution, television, video games, pop music, etc. is making us all stupider by the minute..." – R. Crumb

"In terms of sheer, unstoppable, soul-shaking laughter, Johnny Ryan may well be the funniest cartoonist working alternative comics today." – The Daily Cross Hatch

"Johnny Ryan is a baby-man who, because his mommy and daddy hurt his baby feelers when he was a little baby, now constantly makes half-assed jokes as a defense mechanism because he's still a little baby boy on the inside. And he draws comics." – Jesse Pearson (former editor, VICE)

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