Ryan Olbrysh

Cover and opener illustrations for the January 2026 issue of Baltimore magazine. “Once Upon A Time In … Baltimore: The ‘80s And ‘90s Were A Golden Era Of Filmmaking In Baltimore. Can It Happen Again?”

The Long Kiss Goodnight art for the Deck The Walls Poster Project, in which artists from around the world created alternative movie posters for Christmas-y films.

Cover and opener illustrations for the summer 2025 issue of University of Virginia magazine. “The Best Of The Best: Our Entirely Arguable, Semi-Objective List Of UVA’s Top Athletes Of All Time.”

Cover illustration for the June 14, 2025 issue of Der Spiegel. “Do You Still Want To Go Here?: How Germans Are Turning Away From The USA.”

Illustration for the March 2025 cover of Indianapolis Monthly. “The 100 Greatest Athletes Of Indiana.”

Illustrations for the September 27, 2025 Guardian Saturday magazine Culture section. “In An Era Of AI Slop And Mid TV, Is It Time For Cultural Snobbery To Make A Comeback?: The lowbrow dominates culture and anyone who questions the status quo is dismissed as an elitist killjoy. But with bland algorithmic content on the rise, perhaps we consumers should start taking our art a bit more seriously.”

Illustration for the October 2024 issue of New Jersey Monthly. ”Why Hackensack Is The Most Name-Dropped NJ City In Music, Movies And TV: The ‘city in the shadow of the city’ is referenced in Billy Joel lyrics, Superman and so much more.”

Illustration for the Fall/Winter 2025 issue of University of Houston magazine. “The Brand Builder: Thanks to the leadership branding veteran Patrick Mulligan, demand for University of Houston merchandise and licensing agreements has never been higher, elevating the university’s profile nationwide.“

Illustration for the October 2025 issue of Irvine Standard. “Health Care Boom: A $4 billion investment in three new hospitals and several care centers will make the city a national hub for innovation and wellness.”

Illustration of Trinity College President Joanne Berger-Sweeney for the Winter 2025 issue of The Trinity Reporter‍ .

Illustrations for a Road & Track piece about the origins of all 10 current Formula 1 teams.

Illustration for the June 5, 2025 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. “John Wick Boss Chad Stahelski Gets Candid About Franchise”

“Take Control Of Your Social Media” illustrations for Scholastic’s Science World magazine.

Illustrations for the Fall 2021 issue of USC Annenberg Magazine. “Behind The Music: From Performance To Business And Scholarship, The Love Of Music Shapes Lives And Livelihoods.”

Illustration for AARP's The Ethel website. "The 8 Lessons About Aging I've Learned From Rock Stars."

Illustration for the June 1, 2024 Guardian Saturday magazine. “It’s The Age Of Swiftonomics—But Will Taylor Swift’s Phenomenal Success Trickle Down?”

Illustration for the February/March 2024 issue of AARP The Magazine. “25 Years Of ‘Office Space’. What film most defines Generation X? According to MovieWeb, It’s ‘Office Space’—the sleeper hit 1999 comedy about corporate culture. The tale of Peter Gibbons, a frustrated worker who pioneers the notion of quiet quitting, still resonates with many 50-somethings.”

Illustration for the May 2024 issue of Los Angeles magazine. “Laugh Out Loud: ‘Netflix Is a Joke’ Takes Over L.A. The comedy festival gathers top comics for the funniest festival anywhere.”

April 2024 LEVEL cover illustration about the new Hulu documentary, Hip-Hop And The White House, which “tracks the growing influence of rap artists and the hip-hop community’s relationship to presidential politics.”

Illustration for the Wall Street Journal, September 18, 2023. “How Prime-Time TV Will Look Different This Fall: As Dual Strikes Grip Hollywood, The New Season’s Network Schedules Lean Heavily On Reality And Game Shows.”

Illustration for the March 2024 issue of Scholastic Choices. "10 Life Skills to Learn Before You Turn 18."

Illustration for the July/August 2022 issue of Harvard Magazine. "Aiming For Excellence: Higher Education Ambitions—And Shortcomings.”

May 2024 Illustration for the BBC. “From New York To Paris–How Breaking Made it To The Olympics.”

Illustration for “AARP’s Guide To Pickleball”.

Illustration in the February 15, 2021 issue of TIME magazine. “How Close We Came: The Secret History Of The Shadow Campaign That Saved The Election.”

Cover illustration for the February 24, 2024 issue of Der Spiegel. “Triumph Of Violence: The Limitless Power Of Vladimir Putin.”

Illustration about Africa as an emerging economic powerhouse for the cover of the UK magazine The Investor.

Cover illustration for the April 3, 2020 issue of Newsweek.

Cover and opener illustrations for the August 19, 2022 issue of Newsweek. “Beijing’s Big Bet: China Sees Israeli Technology As Key To Its Bid For Global Dominance. Can The U.S. Stop It?”

Cover illustration for the December 6, 2019 issue of Newsweek.

Illustration for The Hollywood Reporter. “The Nonprofit That Keeps Stars’ Charities From Flaming Out: Ten-Year-Old Social Impact Fund Works With A-Listers Like Kerry Washington And Ryan Reynolds To Make Sure Their Charitable Endeavors Are Fiscally Sound.”

Personal illustration about the 2019 US Women’s National Soccer Team’s World Cup victory.

Illustration for the June 2023 issue of Cincinnati magazine. “Are You ‘Ready For It,’ Swiftcinnati? Resistance To Taylor Swift Is Futile These Days. We Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way.”

Spot illustrations for the February 2020 Innovation Issue of Irvine Standard.

Cover illustration for the January/February 2024 issue of Evansville Living (Indiana). “SPORTS TOWN: Athletes And Coaches Keep The City’s Sports Legacy Alive.”

Illustration for the cover of de Volkskrant’s September 11, 2021 Saturday supplement about the legacy and consequences of 9/11, plus two illustrations for stories about the continuing War on Terror, and how military contractors raked in the cash in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Illustrations in the March 2022 issue of Men’s Health, which accompany their annual Sex Survey feature.

Illustration for AARP The Magazine about the 40-year anniversary of the peak of new wave music.

Illustration for the February 22, 2019 issue of the Wall Street Journal. "In Charged Political Climate, Best Picture Oscar Is About More Than The Movie. Factions behind ‘Black Panther,’ ‘Green Book,’ ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ and other best-picture nominees look past the films to what they represent."

Illustration for Deloitte Insights. “Climate Change 101 For Business Leaders.”

Illustration for the Summer 2022 issue of Boston College Magazine. "The Many Roles Of P.J. Byrne: A Renowned Character Actor Who's Appeared In Countless Hit Movies And Television Shows, Byrne's Star Is On The Rise."

Illustration for the November 19, 2022 issue of de Volkskrant (Netherlands). "Kylian Mbappé is the symbol of the World Cup in Qatar. The richest footballer in the world, who stayed with his club in Paris because President Macron wanted him to, and Qatar paid the bill."

Illustration for the BBC, which accompanies a longform piece about the 2022 Men’s World Cup in Qatar. “Into Qatar: A Journey To Explore A Nation’s Relationship With Football.”

Key art for documentary films from the Media Education Foundation.

Illustration for the October 2023 issue of Car and Driver magazine about California’s outsize influence on emissions standards.

Illustrations for Deloitte’s 2022 MADE (Making Accounting Diverse and Equitable) campaign.

Illustration for the October 2022 issue of Cincinnati magazine. “Show Them The Money: $martPath Uses Puppets To Teach Kids Financial Literacy.”

Illustration for the cover of Connecticut Magazine’s 50th anniversary issue. “The People, Issues And Moments That Shaped The Last Half-Century.”

Illustration for the cover of the Fall 2020 issue of Vitality, the magazine of the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology.

Cover illustration for the Fall 2022 issue of the Georgia Tech Alumni Magazine. “How To Be A Changemaker.”

Illustrations for CarAndDriver.com’s 2023 year In Review.

November 2021 Illustration for TIME online. "All Of Paul Thomas Anderson's Movies, Ranked." As a big fan of P.T. Anderson, this was a dream assignment. I love Boogie Nights and Punch-Drunk Love, but Magnolia is at the top of my list. I've rewatched it numerous times in the 22 years since its release, and with each viewing I feel more strongly that it is nothing short of a masterpiece.

July 2022 Illustration for EdTech. “K–12 Schools Implement Connectivity Solutions To Narrow The Homework Gap: Two And A Half Years Into The Pandemic, Schools Work To Solve Digital Equity Issues That Make It Difficult For Their Students To Get Online At Home.”

Illustration for an AARP Publications app feature on the year 1973. “From Devo to Serpico, The Bic Lighter to Riggs v. King (Or Roe v. Wade): World Changers That Appeared 50 Years Ago.”

Cover illustration for the Fall/Winter 2022 issue of Miamian (The Magazine Of Miami University).

Illustration for the Fall 2022 issue of Illinois Alumni. “Restrictions Lifted: UI System Ends Debt-Related Transcript Holds.”

Cover illustration for the September/October 2023 issue of Virginia Golfer magazine.

Cover illustration for the March 2021 issue of In These Times. "The Factory Next Door," by Austyn Gaffney, is about a West Virginia insulation factory that, despite heated opposition and several legal challenges, is being built on land that used to be an apple orchard and is a stone's throw from an elementary school.

Illustration for the cover of the November/December 2022 issue of Briarpatch Magazine (Canada) for a story about workers in Brampton, Ontario fighting wage theft with the help of the Naujawan Support Network.

Illustration for the Fall 2022 issue of Northwestern Magazine. “Bearing Witness: Steven Thrasher Has Spent His Career Reporting On Social Justice. Why Can’t He Stop Fighting?”

Illustration in the April 2023 issue of Hour Detroit for a story about Detroit’s teacher shortage and a homegrown way to try and solve it.

Quentin Tarantino illustration for the July 2019 issue of Empire magazine. Read about the making of this piece here!

Illustration for the April 2021 issue of 5280. “The Health Care System Earned Black Coloradans’ Mistrust: How Historic Racism And Inequality In Health Care Undermined Efforts To Tend To Communities Of Color During COVID-19.”

Illustration for the Fall 2022 issue of EdTech magazine. “Fan Friendly: Mobile Technology Resources Are Helping Connect College Sports Fans On Game Day.”

Illustration for the Fall 2023 issue of the Coloradan (the University of Colorado Boulder’s alumni magazine). “Behind The Sci-Fi: Erin MacDonald, Star Trek’s Science Guru, Sounds Off On Landing The Role Of A Lifetime And What You Don’t See On Screen.”

Illustration in the September 7, 2019 issue of the Economist for a review of Salman Rushdie's new novel Quichotte.

Illustrations for the Winter 2022 issue of University of Utah Magazine. “Launch Pad: Over The Course Of 20 Years, The Lassonde Entrepreneur Institute Has Helped Build Hundreds Of Student Startup Teams And Kickstart Thousands Of Careers.”

Illustration in the June 2021 issue of Men's Health for a story about Clubhouse, the voice-only social media platform.

As a freelance illustrator I love that I'm given the opportunity to learn about topics that I previously knew nothing about. One week it could be Korean crime films, the next it could be the history of the Chevy Suburban. A few weeks ago it was astrology ... and wrestling. Here are 12 pieces I recently completed for a WWE Superstar Horoscope feature.

Illustration for the December 7, 2024 issue of the Wall Street Journal. “Pat Gelsinger was a true believer at the chip pioneer [Intel]. But his strategy failed, and he lost the board’s confidence. How does this iconic American company survive?”

Illustration for the April 2022 issue of D magazine (Dallas). “From Slovenia, With Love: A Countryman Of Luka Dončić’s Pays His First Visit To Dallas. Of Course Brisket Is Involved.”

Illustration for the May/June 2022 issue of Men’s Health. “Recovery Brew: First Came Hard Cider. Then Hard Seltzer. Now Big Beer Is Betting On A New Wave Of Ultralight ‘Wellness’ Beers. Even NFL Legend Troy Aikman Is Getting In On The Game.”

Illustration for the November 2022 issue of Sports Illustrated Germany. "How Football Conquered Germany: When The Tampa Bay Buccaneers Play The Seattle Seahawks In Munich, Football In Germany Will Reach Its Temporary High Point, But That Should Only Be The Beginning.”

Illustration for the July 23, 2020 edition of the Wall Street Journal. "Bed Bath & Beyond Followed A Winning Playbook—And Lost: The Retailer's Emphasis On Creating Private-Label Items Before Modernizing Its Technology Meant It Was Caught Flat-Footed When The Pandemic Struck."

For the 2022 World Cup in Qatar, seven ultra-modern stadiums are being built by South Asian migrant laborers. Over 6,500 have died in the course of that work. Qatari authorities have refused any sort of investigation into the deaths and human rights abuses, and FIFA has taken no meaningful action to demand changes.

Illustration for the March 20, 2021 issue of de Volkskrant.

Illustration in the December 2021 issue of Milwaukee magazine. “Is Paul Ryan Down And Out? Digging Into His Quiet Three Years Since Congress.”

Illustrations for Car and Driver and Road & Track online.

Cover illustration for the January 24, 2020 issue of Newsweek.

Illustrations in the November 2021 issue of Cincinnati Magazine for a feature on coffee culture.

Cover illustration for the June 12, 2020 issue of Newsweek.

Illustration in the June 2021 issue of Cleveland magazine for a story about Twelve Literary Arts, which is an intergenerational teaching, learning, workshop, and performance space for poets, playwrights and performance artists. Twelve recently released "In Search of the Land," an album that is a celebration of Black identity in Cleveland.

Voting rights illustration for the Southern Poverty Law Center online.

Illustration for the March 14, 2020 edition of the Wall Street Journal. "Diary Of A Crazy Week In The Markets: ‘It’s Going To Be Tough Out There’: Veteran Traders, Bankers And Investors Just Tried To Survive As Wall Street’s Great Bull Run Ended”

Illustration in the April/May 2021 issue of AARP The Magazine for a story about Yacht Rock.

Illustration for the May 2021 issue of Hour Detroit magazine about the decriminalization of hallucinogens in Ann Arbor, the first city in Michigan to do so.

Illustrations for the March 6, 2020 issue of Newsweek.

Illustration for page 1 of the Wall Street Journal's September 21, 2019 Exchange section. "In the battle to dominate the new entertainment landscape, Hollywood’s titans are borrowing from Netflix’s playbook, transforming how they do business with writers, producers and stars—and how money is made in entertainment."

Illustration about the latest in Parental Control software technology for the September 18, 2019 edition of the Wall Street Journal.

Illustration for the Spring 2020 issue of California magazine. “Jack Scott And The Jock Liberation Army: In The Early 1970s Even Athletes Were Swept Up By The Revolutionary Spirit.”

Illustration in the Winter 2021 issue of FedTech magazine. “Virtual Classrooms Expand Learning Opportunities For Federal Workers: The Army And The State Department Deployed Remote Technology To Provide Mandatory Employee Training During The Pandemic.”

Cover and opener illustrations for the May 2021 issue of Baltimore magazine. “Cleaning Up City Hall: The Baltimore Region Has A History Of Corruption. Can A New Administration Effect Real Change?”

Illustration in the September 8, 2021 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. “‘Nobody Knows My Life Better Than I Do.’ Music Icon Dionne Warwick Dishes On Her New Toronto Film Fest Doc Don’t Make Me Over, Her Musical Legacy, Concern For Britney Spears, And How She Conquered Twitter With Humor And Kindness.”

October 26, 2021 Illustration for TIME online: "The 19 Most Underrated Movies On Netflix.”

Illustration for a story in the May 2, 2018 issue of Willamette Week about Portland's long-shot bid to land a Major League Baseball team.

Illustration for the August 12, 2020 issue of The Hollywood Reporter. "The Memorabilia King vs. The Studio Detective: The Never-Before-Told Account Of An Epic Battle Over Stolen Movie Props”

Illustration for the August 2019 issue of In These Times magazine. “How A Sewer Socialist City May Push Democrats Left In 2020: When Presidential Hopefuls Arrive In Milwaukee For The 2020 Democratic National Convention, They Must Choose Whether To Embrace The City’s Socialist History, Or Run From It.”

Illustration for a story in the September 2nd, 2018 print issue of the New York Times about jukebox musicals.

"The Power Of Podcasting" illustration for the Spring 2019 issue of USC Annenberg Magazine.