"This lovely collection of Ryan Claytor's work reminds the viewer what a rare thing it is to find a true love of cartooning combined with ambition, hard work and attention to detail. And all tied together with a poet's heart. Beauty itself." -- Seth

From the artist-publisher:

20 years of one man's work in comics, illustration and design is showcased in this hardcover art book with oversized formatting (9" x 12" & over 250-pages) and a production-heavy attention to book design (dual cloth-bound and dual foil-stamped cover with gilded page edges, built-in ribbon bookmark and specialty formatting on a number of interior pages--gatefolds, die cuts, vellum, etc.)...

Inside you'll find a wide variety of artwork, each with behind-the-scenes detailed outlines of my process, that range from my own work in comics......as well as personal illustration projects and design inspiration......but also many pieces which have never seen print before, like my neon design work......watch designs......and even some early, never-before-seen projects from my graduate school days, like this multimedia game I illustrated and programmed.

In addition to being a comics artist and professor, I'm also a designer, and this book will be the most complex print project I've ever coordinated, pushing the theme of process in new directions with a number of production extras, like gatefold pages, vellum overlays, and die-cut reveals.

For example, this is a piece of my original artwork that will be featured in the book……reproduced from a nice high-resolution scan……and here's the spread featuring the original art shown above with some custom die-cut windows (holes) to display a "before" version of the image (rendered in raw pencil and ink on bristol paper) with an "after" version (scanned, cleaned, and colored) visible behind it: The red circles above will not be printed red, that's simply to draw your eye to the shape of those die-cut holes in the page. Rather, you'll be able to see the final colored image THROUGH the printed original art. Then when you turn the page, the holes will reveal the same before-and-after formatting for the finished page on the left.

I'm thrilled to showcase the process behind creating this work in a number of different ways throughout my art book. This is just one of them.

Additionally, there are a healthy amount of showcase images that allow the reader to get up close and personal with everything from my neon designs......to original artwork......and much, much more. :)

I'm a comics artist and university professor. My award-winning books include A Hunter's Tale, Coin-Op Carnival, my autobiographical comic series And Then One Day, and many more successfully self-published works dating back to 2004.