Ryan Estrada

About Ryan Estrada

Ryan Estrada is an artist/author/adventurer, and darn good podcast guest. You can learn about him at ryanestrada.com

What makes him an author? He's the Eisner-nominated, Freeman Award-winning bestselling author of Banned Book Club, Occulted, and the Student Ambassador series.

What makes him an artist? He's worked on Star Trek, Popeye, Flash Gordon, and Garfield.

What makes him an adventurer? He's been thrown from a moving train by the police in India. He barely escaped being eaten by lions in the Maasai Mara. He's slept on a park bench in a Japanese Typhoon, twice, and shipwrecked while trying to Kayak across the ocean in Thailand. He's been a gator wrangler in the US, a ghostbuster in South Korea, was interviewed by the BBC over a prank he pulled on Putin, and was once kicked out of Canada for making cartoons. You name a topic, he has a wild story.

What makes him a good podcast guest? He's also a three-time Moth StorySlam winner and eight time Risk! Podcast storyteller with a decade of experience on South Korean radio so he knows how to fit into an existing formula but stand out as an interesting guest. In addition to talking about art and adventure, he loves talking about movies. (He's been covering the Busan International Film Festival since 2002, was in the worst Bollywood movie ever made, and once tricked Malcolm McDowell to act in his short film be telling him a cat was sad) These are just a few of his weird stories. Get him on your show and you'll hear lots more!