Episode 379: Ryan Claytor’s new book
The last time we saw Ryan was when he and Nick Baldridge gave us the book "Coin-Op Carnival". Ryan is back with his latest, "One Bite At A Time". It features 20 years of history with comics...
Highlights
- About 25% of the 250-page book 'One Bite at a Time' is directly related to pinball content
- Ryan Claytor has a 100% track record of fulfilling Kickstarter projects
- Claytor started getting interested in watches during the early pandemic days as a hobby
- Zombie Yeti is one of the best pinball artists of all time, rivaling Paul Ferris
- Modern pinball art has shifted back to hand-drawn artwork over the past five years, especially since Metallica's release
Notable quotes
“about 25% of them are directly related to pinball. I've done a lot of illustrations for pinball events throughout the years, pinball podcasts. I've done Coin Op Carnival.”
“I'm so happy that we're finally starting to come back to that like key line artwork with more flat. I hesitate to say that because we've got a lot of gradients going on in the modern era.”
“I can't get enough of Zombie Yeti's artwork. He is just probably one of the best pinball artists of all time. I mean, rivaling folks like Paul Ferris.”
“I remember when Metallica came out and people's minds were exploding that Stern allowed Dirty Donny to put ink to paper and figure out how to draw on a pinball machine again.”
“This book in addition to being a 20 overview of my work is also sort of a narrative of a career being formed and in the process of being formed.”
Entities
- Mr. Jones Watches· company
- Multimorphic· company
- Drained· game
- Metallica· game
- Michigan State University· organization
- Pinball Profile· organization
- Christopher Franchi· person
- Dave Christensen· person
- Dennis Creasel· person
- Dirty Donny· person
- Jeff Teolis· person
- Johnny Crap· person
- Nick Baldrige· person
- Paul Ferris· person
- Ryan Claytor· person
- Zombie Yeti· person
- Coin-Op Carnival· product
- Elephant Eater Comics· product
- One Bite at a Time: The First 20 Years of Elephant Eater Comics· product
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