Ryan Ottley

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Ryan Ottley (also known as Uncle WYA) is an American comic book artist and penciller. He is best known for work on Image Comics' Invincible. Artist and co-creator of webcomic strip "Ted Noodleman: Bicycle Delivery Boy", and it was through this webstrip that Robert Kirkman first encountered Ryan's work and then offered him the job of penciling "Invincible". Ryan's work is mostly admired by his fans and contemporaries for his amazing use of caricature and ability to dance the line between simple realism and cartooning. Contrary to this, Ottley's early amateur was quite detailed and his sketches still retain a broader use of hatching and rendering. His absurd and often hilarious sketches are something he's noted for.

Ryan has also appeared in several issues of an independent comic anthology "Digital Webbing Presents". It was, in fact the site, www.digitalwebbing.com, on which he built his fan base, and got exposure leading to his eventual Image work.