Ryan Odagawa


Ryan Odagawa (born November 15, 1975) is a comic book artist who pencilled the Free Comic Book Day 2013 one-shot Star Wars: The Assassination of Darth Vader written by Brian Wood and published by Dark Horse Comics.

He drew the first appearance of the Marvel Comics character F.R.I.D.A.Y., who is Tony Stark's newer computer system. (Designed by Michael Ryan and written by Mike Grell in Invincible Iron Man #53, 2002) F.R.I.D.A.Y. has appeared in the movie Avengers: Age of Ultron and appears as a voice at Disney California Adventure in the live action shows on Avenger's Campus.

He has also illustrated Chester Cheetah on the current Cheetos bags (including regular, Flaming Hot, Puffs, and Flaming Hot Puffs).

In 2017, Ryan self-published and funded by Kickstarter his first Original Graphic Novel, Shadowzone: In The Realm of the Kiv.

He is best known for his work on the Heroes Online Graphic Novel and Alias Comics' miniseries TwinBlades. Odagawa also worked as a texture artist on several video games, such as Medal of Honor: Frontline and Command & Conquer: Generals, and played a Japanese soldier in Clint Eastwood's film Letters from Iwo Jima.

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