Jay Ryan Anyone?

[Pat Marquez]

Who here has heard of Jay Ryan (http://www.thebirdmachine.com/)? Seriously, this guy has some of the best artwork out there. He has done tour posters for bands ranging from Riddle Of Steel, Iron & Wine, Interpol, Built To Spill, The Appleseed Cast as well as a HUGE Converse Shoes layout that was featured here in downtown Chicago. He also fronts the magazine Punk Planet. You can view some of his work by clicking here (http://209.35.57.253/books/100_posters_excerpt.html). Let me know what you think!

[MEGAghost]

i absolutely love that he did pictures for the songs on Andrew Bird's album "The Mysterious Production Of Eggs". i was just thinking about how awesome of an album that is. the "Fake Palindromes" picture is a gas. i looove looking at concert posters.

[imemokillme]

so heeee's the one who made that sick poster for thrice/PTW a few years ago. wonderful stuff.

[futurebreed]

Wow, I like that stuff a lot.

[JoshIsArealBoy]

His stuff is sweet! You guys should all checkout this other awesome artist aaronkraten.

www.aaronkratenart.com His style is sooooooooo cool!

[FeynmanWannabe]

i absolutely love that he did pictures for the songs on Andrew Bird's album "The Mysterious Production Of Eggs". i was just thinking about how awesome of an album that is. the "Fake Palindromes" picture is a gas. i looove looking at concert posters.

He did that, too? Damn, nice stuff.

[DSCN1854]

I have never heard of Jay Ryan before, but I have heard of Ryan Hart.

Jay Ryan's stuff is really good. That's cool he's doing some neat artwork for some good bands.

[minusthejosh]

very cool, i knew i'd seen some of his artwork before. i'm loving that iron & wine poster too.

[NameTaken69]

hes nasty

[truestar1015]

The posters are amazing. He is very talented. They are more like works of art to hang in your house rather than concert posters.

[djUbilla]

Punk Planet is a killer mag.

[LilRyan732]

Pat, this is what I was IMimg you about way back when. Thanks for finding him again.

[DroppedUrPocket]

I saw this guy on some nightly news show on PBS. He seemed like a really cool dude, talking about how he tries not to charge the bands too much because he knows how hard it is to be an independant artist.

Where's that Converse thing located Pat?

[katieb0nes]

i wonder if they are silk screened, probably and that shit is hard to do.

[starcrossdlovex]

Yeah, his stuff's awesome.
I've been wishing I had more money

[Lala]

Jay Ryan a huge inspiration of silk screen artists, There is a whole underground silk screen scene... check it. GigPosters (http://www.gigposters.com) In chicago alone there so many great artists like Steve Walters (http://screwballpress.com/), Keith Herzik, Bob Hartzell, Kristen Thiele, Jason Frederick, Lauren Castady (http://unigloryinc.com/).