Ryan Reid Illustration + Design

Miscellany

Making comics, creating zines, daily life – Miscellany is odds and ends, curiosities, and the stuff between the cracks.

Three art posters on the studio wall.

Love it love it hang it on the wall

February 16, 2025 | Miscellany

After dragging my heals for years I finally hung new art posters on the wall, plus a short trip down resampling algorithm lane.

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Snack attack 4 page comic, ink completed.

Snack attack – inking completed

December 28, 2024 | Miscellany

There are many things that can keep me from completing any personal project I start. Chores. Family obligations. Reddit. I finish, it just takes forever.

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Dream

Dream

December 11, 2024 | Miscellany

This morning I saw the word “dream” on the side of a construction crane. I wasn’t not sure if it was a call to action, or a warning. Turns out it was just branding – so maybe a little of both.

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First page of comic, work in progress.

Snack attack – new comic work in progress

November 9, 2024 | Miscellany

Got off my tushy and started a new comic. I took a couple work in progress photos, so you could enjoy the mess. It’s been a while, all my pens needed ink.

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Office intrigue

Office intrigue

September 30, 2024 | Miscellany

Wherein I relay a short experience from the office on a far too quiet day, when the mind wanders, and unlikely conspiracies emerge.

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In the beginning

In the beginning

August 20, 2024 | Miscellany

In the beginning there was nothing. Then there was something. Then more something. Etc. And nowit’s justreally reallycrowded.

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Maybe it’s somebody else’s frequency illusion

Maybe it’s somebody else’s frequency illusion

June 18, 2024 | Miscellany

Could frequency illusion bias be somehow related to the Somebody Else’s Problem field? Unlikely. But maybe. But also unlikely.

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Charles Bukowski on work

Charles Bukowski on work

May 19, 2024 | Miscellany

We work too hard. We try too hard. Don’t try. Don’t work. It’s there. Looking right at us, aching to kick out of the closed womb. Charles Bukowski

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Steve Martin on success

Steve Martin on success

April 6, 2024 | Miscellany

If you are looking to take advice on success, you’d be in good hands to take that advice from Steve Martin, I think.

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Robot is stranded on a floating rock.

Floating

March 17, 2024 | Miscellany

Exhaustion, a minor pity party, and a brief divergence into the importance random experiences have on the creative process.

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