When he's not dabbling in audio-visual artistry, Ryan Heshka is busy creating distinctive paintings and illustrations to grace the pages of the Vanity Fair and the walls of galleries across North America alike. His sense of humor as well as his predilection for old radio shows and comic books come through in his colorful interpretations of 1950s sci-fi nightmares — works which have earned him exhibition in BLAB! and at Roq la Rue, a gallery in Seattle respected for its surrealist pop art. In his interview Heshka talks children's books, representation, why an artist never stops learning, and his preferred method of e-commerce.