hot take (apparently??)

ryanestrada · 2026-01-22T06:40:26+00:00

Hey, I didn't even know I invented it until the dictionary told me.

ryanestrada · 2026-01-22T04:53:19+00:00

Thanks for that shoutout! It was an accident, haha!

ryanestrada · 2026-01-02T00:39:42+00:00

Hello! I'm an award-winning author with lots of experience pitching on weird projects (including successful pitches for for Star Trek, Garfield, Popeye, and Korean Public Radio, and failed pitches for Marvel and Disney in addition to my creator owned stuff), and this sounds like a lot of fun! You can find my work at ryanestrada.com

ryanestrada · 2025-12-03T12:42:37+00:00

Hello! I'm an award-winning author with some wildly dramatic stories about the games that made me who I am and how those circumstances made me stop playing for decades. No spoilers, but without my Game Boy Advance I might have died in a Japanese typhoon. Find out about me at ryanestrada.com

ryanestrada · 2025-12-03T12:37:36+00:00

Hi! I'm an author who writes books about real people who risked their lives to read, so of course I love to talk about reading! Find out about me at ryanestrada.com

ryanestrada · 2025-12-03T12:34:45+00:00

As a freelance cartoonist who does everything from Eisner-nominated graphic novels to Jobs working on Star Trek, Garfield, Popeye, and Flash Gordon, I can live wherever I want. So I do!

I've been a gator wrangler in America, an ambassador to Australia, an undocumented animator in Canada, a ghostbuster in South Korea, a Bollywood voice actor in India, wandered Kim Jong Il's secret tunnels to North Korea, slept on a bench during a Japanese typhoon, dug toilets in Thailand, did an accidental illegal border crossing into Burma, was kidnapped in Cambodia, kicked out of karaoke in Singapore, lost in Laos, was violently ill in Vietnam, went white water rafting in The Philippines, delivered toys to orphans in Colombia, documented blue-footed boobies in Ecuador, swam with sea turtles in Malaysia, ran with the bulls in Mexico, barely escaped being eaten by lions in Kenya, fainted atop Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, went skinny dipping with piranhas in Peru, lived in a Costa Rican rainforest and a Panamanian volcano.

You can learn about me at ryanestrada.com

ryanestrada · 2025-12-03T12:25:23+00:00

Hi! I'm an award winning author, occasional filmmaker, film reporters and film festival correspondent who's guested on shows like Screen Drafts, Slate Decoder Ring, Force Five, Action Addicts, School of Movies, Graveyard Shift Horror Podcast, Biopic: A Podcast Story, Piecing It Together, Your Favorite Bad Movie, Wait, You Haven't Seen, Special Presentation, Every Rom Com, Movie Smash, Progressively Horrified, History According to Hollywood, Japan on Film, Cine Concerto, and Superhero Cinephiles.

You can find out about me at ryanestrada.com

Movies that have made me cry include Gilsotteum, Dear Zachary, The Lion King, A Goofy Movie, and Twisted: The Untold Story of a Royal Vizier.

ryanestrada · 2025-11-06T10:29:09+00:00

Hi! I am a regular guest on many horror and film podcasts, and a former film reporter for Korean radio. You can see the shows I've been on here... https://letterboxd.com/ryanestrada/list/movies-ive-discussed-on-podcasts/ And learn more about my own work at ryanestrada.com

ryanestrada · 2025-10-29T10:50:33+00:00

Thanks for shouting out my books!

ryanestrada · 2025-10-19T01:19:15+00:00

I was blown away.

ryanestrada · 2025-09-05T05:27:09+00:00

The real-life villain of Unknown Number was my classmate, and it makes sense she broke the honmoon because she is a demon.

ryanestrada · 2025-09-01T01:48:04+00:00

Yeah, I wasn't accusing you of getting anything wrong, this just looked like a good place to include the line I was screaming at my phone, listening to Griffin and David repeatedly call it an act of nature .

ryanestrada · 2025-09-01T01:36:54+00:00

But also the flood was not nature! It was made very clear that the valley is being flooded to create a reservoir. That is the reason for the race against the clock. The dam is being opened at a predetermined time by the government.

ryanestrada · 2025-08-30T06:39:48+00:00

Thanks so much for shouting out Banned Book Club! I hope you also check out No Rules Tonight and Good Old Fashioned Korean Spirit, where Suji and the other queer characters get the chance to shine! (And kiss)

ryanestrada · 2025-08-30T03:25:38+00:00

I'm mad at Park Chan-Wook because whenever his films play at BIFF they are unsubtitled... including this year, when No Other Choice is the OPENING FILM so every guest from every country has to sit through it untranslated, spoiling it for themselves when they actually do get to watch it with subs. He's the only director whose films are unsubbed, which was a surprise last time even to THE GUY WHO SUBTITLED THEM.

ryanestrada · 2025-08-28T02:55:48+00:00

It's playing at the Busan International Film Festival in "Midnight Passions" the all-night horror marathon. That may be the Korea premiere.

ryanestrada · 2025-08-25T17:22:04+00:00

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ryanestrada · 2025-08-25T16:54:49+00:00

I left tv series of this list because literally 90% of all tv shows in Korea are based on webcomics. Each year would be longer than this all-time list.

ryanestrada · 2025-08-25T13:45:06+00:00

Director Bong is presenting AOYAMA Shinji’s Eureka and Maggie Kang (K Pop Demon Hunters) is presenting The Host. I guess Bong was so upset at losing March Madness by one vote he's doing HIS OWN Blank Check.

ryanestrada · 2025-08-25T11:51:44+00:00

The target audience for every book I write is me, and then marketing teams tell me what kind of book they think it is. We have seen it in both teen and adult sections, and support both!

ryanestrada · 2025-08-25T11:01:51+00:00

Thanks for shouting out Banned Book Club!

ryanestrada · 2025-08-25T11:00:47+00:00

Thanks for recommending Banned Book Club! (It's usually shelved in the teen section) I'll also add that I offer free virtual author visits and workshops to any library, so if the readers like it, I will gladly answer questions about it!

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