Chris Ryall

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Still making comics

Me wearing a Rom helmet
Rom Spaceknight's helmet
A movie poster for the 1980 film Fade to Black showing the lead character in partial monster makeup eating movie popcorn and drinking a Mr. Pibb. It might look like a Coke or a Pepsi but it's not, you can smell the Pibb from here.
A still from classic 1958 sci-fi movie The Blob showing the blob, er, the sentient plasma entity, as it emerges from the Colonial Theater.
Tom Steyer and me in west LA today. One of us might be governor later this year but I’m not spoiling which one.
Conan the barbarian, not looking his best, sits atop a horse that slowly approaches an elderly woman affixing a rope to a tree branch, gorgeously rendered by artist Gabriel Rodriguez.
The cover to Joe Hill’s Rain by Zoe Thorogood the lead character and her girlfriend wearing a Klimt-like dress, both of them pierced through the heart by an ice dagger.
Not Evil Morty but Morty the pug here does only have one working eye like his Evil namesake.
The cover to Forbidden Worlds 60 showing a man ringing in the new year with a word balloon reading "Here's to everybody! Wonder what the new year's got in store for us?" while out the window behind him, there's a flaming airplane flying out of control right towards the window, which is perhaps too fitting a metaphor for 2025 heading into 2026 but you never know, maybe it'll somehow work out better than this past year, anyway. Here's hoping. Happy new year to you all.
The cover to an old Savage She-Hulk comic featuring the Man-Wolf and Hellcat.
The cover to the comic book Torso's first issue, showing a dismembered doll
The best rock band to ever come out of Canada, Rush, and deep down, Joe Hill knows this is true.
Jack Kirby’s three-headed monster, the TRICEPHALOUS, from Fantastic Four #1.
An ad for the Dread the Halls comic signing with Chris Ryall and Jordan Hart at Golden Apple Comics on Wednesday, December 3rd, 11am - 1pm. The ad shows off three Dread the Halls comic covers and photos of Ryall and Hart.
All 7 covers for the Dread the Halls 2025 comic, in stores on December 3, sitting under a Christmas tree
A rotten pumpkin drawn by Tim Sale
The cover to Batman The Long Halloween #1 showing a black cat and a carved pumpkin with a Batman-logo-shaped mouth by artist Tim Sale, next to a Jack O'Lantern that approximates the same carving.
Joe Hill and the guy typing this stand in front of a nice San Diego sunset.
A close up image of Superman bursting through a brick wall as drawn by artist Bernie Wrightson.
A picture of Chris Ryall holding a copy of the Megalopolis graphic novel on a flier advertising his signing of the book at the San Diego Barnes & Noble in Mira Mesa this Friday, October 17, from 5-7pm.
Comic creator John Byrne in his home studio holding his new Harvey Awards hall of fame award while surrounded by an amazing array of original comic art, books, props, and pieces.
An image with words on a black background, mentioning that October 5-11 is banned books week, a reminder of the importance of pushing back against censorship and ignorant book bannings
A screenshot of teenage me in an early episode of Power Rangers, as Bulk and Skull dump a trash can full of garbage on my head. You know, the good ol' days.
A cropped page from an issue of John Byrne's Star Trek New Visions comic series using photos from original episodes to tell new stories. The page here includes Janice Rand and me, Chris Ryall, cast as Rand's comatose fiance
The cover of R.F. Kuang’s Katabasis novel showing the halls of academy as a representation of the circles of Dante’s hell.
Two copies of the new Daredevil Born Again book by Chris Ryall showing Daredevil and Karen Page drawn by David Mazzucchelli
Dr. Frankenstein and his creation from the movie Young Frankenstein
Rom Spaceknight standing in the middle of Clariton, WV as drawn by Frank Miller and Joe Rubenstein on the cover of the first issue of the Marvel Comics series.
The cover to the Megalopolis graphic novel and a nice pull quote from the Library Journal's advance review of the book.
5 copies of the upcoming Megalopolis graphic novel with cover art featuring the two lead characters by Jacob Phillips
Chris Ryall—me—holding a copy of the coming Megalopolis graphic novel on the Abrams ComicArt panel at Comic-Con.
A costumed character by artist Nelson Daniel from the comic book Dread the Hall H alongside a photo of cosplayer Rey Benevides, who dressed as that character for the Dread the Hall H panel at SDCC.
Flash 133 comic book cover showing Flash turned into a puppet by Abra Kadabra
Cover art for the just-announced X-Men Elsewhen volume 1 book by John Byrne showing Wolverine fighting Sauron high above the Savage Land as headshots of the X-Men team look on in shock.
Ozzy Osborne, holding a bucket of water he's about to throw on the audience and holding a hand to his ear after telling the audience to "let me see your fuckin' hands!" for the 30th time that night.
A comic book cover showing Superman and a blind Lois Lane talking to a real lunatic of a doctor
The full album art without logo for KISS' Destroyer album, painted by Ken Kelly and featuring Paul Stanley, Peter Criss, Ace Frehley, and Gene Simmons in their full band makeup and costumes posing like superheroes while the world devolves into post-apocalyptic horror behind them.
A reproduction of a memo from former Marvel EiC Jim Shooter discussing John Romita Jr’s cover sketches for X-Men 176.
X-men 198 cover by Barry Windsor-smith showing Storm against a beautiful purple sky.
Jordan Hart & Chris Ryall hawking their last Dread the Halls comic and pushing their signing of this week's new issue.
Ming Chen reads Dread the Hall H, a comic in which Ming is a featured character.
Dread the Hall H comic book cover and a pull quote from Capes and Tights’ 5-star review of the comic.