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R. Sikoryak

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R. Sikoryak

Cartoonist R. Sikoryak is the author of CONSTITUTION ILLUSTRATED, MASTERPIECE COMICS, TERMS AND CONDITIONS and THE UNQUOTABLE TRUMP (Drawn & Quarterly). He's adapted the classics for various comics anthologies, including RAW, Drawn & Quarterly, The Graphic Canon and more.

His comics and illustrations have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, The Onion, MAD and SpongeBob Comics, as well as on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." He's done storyboards and character designs for Augenblick Studios on various animated projects.

Sikoryak teaches in the illustration department at Parsons The New School for Design and previously at The Center for Cartoon Studies. Since 1997, he's presented his live cartoon slide show series, "Carousel," around the United States and Canada.

He lives in New York City with his spouse, Kriota Willberg.

R. Sikoryak

Books by R. Sikoryak

written by Tom Hanks, illustrated by R. Sikoryak - Fiction

Part One of this story takes place in 1947. A troubled soldier, returning from the war, meets his talented five-year-old nephew and then disappears for 23 years. Cut to 1970: The nephew, now drawing underground comic books, reconnects with his uncle and --- remembering the comic book he saw when he was five --- draws a new version with his uncle as a World War II fighting hero. Cut to the present day: A commercially successful director discovers the 1970 comic book and decides to turn it into a contemporary superhero movie. Cue the cast: We meet the film’s extremely difficult male star, his wonderful leading lady, the eccentric writer/director, the producer, the gofer production assistant, and everyone else on both sides of the camera.