This five page comic (drawn AND written by me) ran as alternate covers for IDW’s G.I.Joe vol.3, issues #7-11 and were a follow up of...

IDW Publishing is releasing The Comic Book History of Animation by writer Fred Van Lente, and myself as a 5 issue comic book series,...

ACTION PRESIDENTS #4 : JOHN F KENNEDY words: Fred Van Lente pictures: Ryan Dunlavey HarperCollins, 2020

An autobio comic that appeared in Dark Horse Comics’ The Secret Loves of Geeks anthology. Names (and haircuts) have been changed to...

I posted a write up about Tommy Atomic back in April but I forgot to post any of the actual comics! So to correct that error, here's a...

Cancelled pitches and projects are a normal part of doing business as a freelance creative. Occasionally they will be revived at a later...

Here's a fun comic I co-wrote with my son!

The relaunch of ACTION PRESIDENTS is just a few weeks away! On June 2, 2020 the first 2 books in the series -George Washington and...

Just like every other comic book artist I've ever met I have my own original super hero universe stuck in my head - all centered around...

In 2013 I was commissioned to write and draw a short non-fiction comic about the behind-the-scenes story of Hasbro's G.I. Joe toys and...

A short memoir comic I made shortly after Senator John Glenn had passed away.

Of course, if I did a Marvel, X-Men and other fan art posts, I couldn't leave DC out! I've never pitched projects to DC, but I've done a...

I posted a bunch of Marvel sketches, commissions and fan art already but it turns out I drew so much X-Men stuff I thought they deserved...

More of my custom commissions, pitch art and just-for-fun drawings…but this time they're all Marvel characters (the old-school villains...

Here's a whole mess of drawings I've done of other people's characters - most were private commissions, some were for fun, a few were...

…was a monthly magazine feature where the lead characters of classic comic strips were replaced with characters from popular sci-fi,...

It all started innocently enough. In late 2003 I was a few months into working steadily as a freelance illustrator for Wizard...

On May 9, 2011 Acme Comics flew me to their store on Free Comic Book Day to do free sketch requests for their customers all day - here's...

In 1995 I moved to New York City with little money and zero plans because that's what you do when you're 23 and feel like you’ve hit the...

As soon as I had written and drawn a real Marvel-616 continuity comic the requests for M.O.D.O.K. sketches started coming in fast and...

In my last post I mentioned how the M.O.D.O.K. comic I was commissioned to write and draw was originally supposed to be a digital...

At the 2008 San Diego Comic-Con Fred Van Lente and I were invited to pitch a comic for Marvel Comics’s brand-new (at the time) digital...

written and researched by Fred Van Lente drawn by Ryan Dunlavey colored by Adam Guzowski excerpted from The Comic Book History of Comics:...

A cartoon history of the economics of the contemporary United States comic book industry by Fred Van Lente & Ryan Dunlavey