Ryan Vella

Ryan Vella is an Australian comic artist/musician. He has drawn comics since a young age and is responsible for such titles as Sunburner, The Baby harp Seals Of Death, The Terminal Myriad, Underground Spandex:Marvel ,and many others.Vella has also contributed to , The Picture and Sydney's Sick Puppy Comix and countless others.
Biography
Vella grew up near Mackay. He attended in Queensland before moving to the Gold Coast to study comic art. Vella returned to Mackay after three years.
He has exhibited with Silicon Pulp Animation Gallery in Sydney and in the 14 International Exhibition of Comics and Drawing in Croatia. In 2003 Vella worked on US comic titles Ninja High School, Golddigger and Demi the Demoness as well as Mouthpiece, Mackay's youth magazine.
Vella met John Birmingham, author of He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, at Art Space Mackay for the opening of the Headspace exhibition; there, Birmingham approached him to do a graphic adaptation of his novel to celebrate its tenth anniversary. The comic was published September 2004 by Duffy & Snellgrove ( ISBN-1-876631-95-3).
Vella also contributed a short-lived comic series to his local newspaper "The Walkerston & Valley Advertiser" entitled Blackie the Pig based on a local family's actual real-life pet pig that Mackay City Council threatened to destroy.
In 2006 he had his second solo art exhibition "Deja-Voodoo".
In 2010 Vella released the comics "The deadly Hands of jesus Christ" and " Manpanda:cover gallery".

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