Ryan Biddle

Cartoonist & Illustrator

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Calistaro

This is Calistaro, a science fiction in progress.

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Through The Witch's Eye

Through The Witch’s Eye

I wrote and drew ‘Through The Witch’s Eye’ for my daughter. I wanted to test my capacity for conceiving and executing an idea as author and illustrator within the shortest amount of time, basically one step inside reasonable for what I know about my limits. I gave myself a week to knock this out once the idea arrived. I don’t regard myself as a writer necessarily, but I saw this as an…

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DIRECTORS FLASH CARD SET curated by Pure Cinema Podcast hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur

DIRECTORS FLASH CARD SET curated by Pure Cinema Podcast hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur

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DIRECTORS FLASH CARD SET curated by Pure Cinema Podcast hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur

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DIRECTORS FLASH CARD SET curated by Pure Cinema Podcast hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur

DIRECTORS FLASH CARD SET curated by Pure Cinema Podcast hosts Elric Kane and Brian Saur

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Nightwalk

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G is for ghost From the 1984 science fiction comedy film, 'Ghostbusters' And what better reason to consider this film as absolutely essential and include it in this series than its rarity as a science fiction fantasy AND a comedy?

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H is for hawk

H is for hawk

From the 1979-1981 television series ‘Buck Rogers In the 25th Century’

Boy, oh boy. Glen Larson. What a guy. A TV man as it were. Dyed in the wool, TV man. The money spent on these shows does not care about the content. The important thing is getting audiences to tune in. So you’re a TV man and you are faced constantly with figuring out how to get Americans to tune into the network for which you…

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I is for idol

I is for idol

From ‘Raiders Of The Lost Ark’ 1981

Dude, I don’t know what to tell you. This film is a goddamn masterpiece. End of discussion. Sure, you can deconstruct it, tear it down, be better than its reputation or the film itself, but all of that nonsense falls flat when the thing unspools onscreen and its infectious brand of adventure, intrigue and fantasy work the alchemical magic of cinema into your…

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J is for jetpack

J is for jetpack

From the Star Wars film series

Star Wars. This is the gateway drug. If you do it right, you will end up making a set of flash cards about science fiction and fantasy as your own childhood has long disappeared from the rear-view mirror. You will learn how to articulate a bulletproof defense for the series that goes beyond what you think you like or dislike about it with eloquence and grace.  You…

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K is for king

K is for king

From the 1933 film ‘King Kong‘

The original film is I am most familiar with Dino DeLaurentiis’ 1976 remake. Though it featured the amazing Carlos Jambaldi  Rambaldi, Rick Baker, Charles Grodin and Jeffery ‘The Dude’ Bridges (among others), it was the sight of Ms. Jessica Lange that drew me into the film. In another clear cut case of Wilde’s ‘life imitaties art’ as truth, her spellbinding beauty…

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L is for lizard

L is for lizard

From the 1954 film, Gojira directed by Honda Ishiro

As I remember it, Houston ABC affiliate, KTRH, would show Godzilla movies with some regularity on Sunday afternoons. That memory shares the same space in my sense of nostalgia as Star Trek marathons and Kung Fu theater. Mildly fascinated with only a passing interest by the colorful cast of monstersand super low-budget but stylish miniature…

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M is for motorcycle

M is for motorcycle

From the 1988 film ‘Akira’ written and directed by Otomo Katsuhiro

This seminal work began simply as a weekly comic serial in Japanese manga publication Young Magazineand it ran for eight years between 1982 and 1990. Today, it is regarded as one of the top works of science fiction in film as well as print. But the feature was not live-action, it was animated and beautifully so. Nearly every…

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N is for nautilus

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P is for police

P is for police

From the 1987 film Robocop, directed by Paul Verhoeven I love those old Marvel Movie Specials. I want to bring back that format, but with a little more care in the adaptation. That’s the double-edged sword of industry, the deadline. One of my all-time favorites is Walt Simonson’s adapation of ‘Alien’ serialized in Heavy Metal. Widely considered one of the best film-to-comic adaptations. the Jim…

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Q is for quarterback From the 1980, Dino DeLaurentiis production, Flash Gordon