Ryan Estrada
@ryanestrada.com
Eisner-nominated author/artist/adventurer behind Banned Book Club, Occulted, Student Ambassador, No Rules Tonight, Good Old Fashioned Korean Spirit. Worked on Garfield, Star Trek, Popeye. Represented by Janine Kamouh at WME. Find me at ryanestrada.com
I find it so much more interesting and revelatory to read the dorky failures of renowned authors. It helps you understand them better, and deepens all their other works.
December 25, 2025 at 3:01 AM
I find it so much more interesting and revelatory to read the dorky failures of renowned authors. It helps you understand them better, and deepens all their other works.
I thought it was a good time to bring it back because I've been officially hired by the Busan Museum and British National Portrait Gallery to be their official Dickens scholar to introduce the handwritten manuscript of Great Expectations.
No one tell them I'm only an expert on his books that suck.
No one tell them I'm only an expert on his books that suck.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I thought it was a good time to bring it back because I've been officially hired by the Busan Museum and British National Portrait Gallery to be their official Dickens scholar to introduce the handwritten manuscript of Great Expectations.
No one tell them I'm only an expert on his books that suck.
No one tell them I'm only an expert on his books that suck.
Sorry for those who've already seen this thread a million times. The original version, like many literary works, was ruined by a blurb from an author that no one wants to be associated with anymore.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Sorry for those who've already seen this thread a million times. The original version, like many literary works, was ruined by a blurb from an author that no one wants to be associated with anymore.
Here is a full list of all the titles. Don't expect most of these to ever get Muppet or Mickey or Flintstones or Mr. Magoo adaptations because a lot of them are awful.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Here is a full list of all the titles. Don't expect most of these to ever get Muppet or Mickey or Flintstones or Mr. Magoo adaptations because a lot of them are awful.
I understand him though, as I'm possibly the only person in history to have adapted all of these.
I was hired to modernize them for Korean Public radio. Two episodes a week allowed me to speedrun his descent into madness creating worse and worse product before finishing in disgrace and shame.
I was hired to modernize them for Korean Public radio. Two episodes a week allowed me to speedrun his descent into madness creating worse and worse product before finishing in disgrace and shame.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
I understand him though, as I'm possibly the only person in history to have adapted all of these.
I was hired to modernize them for Korean Public radio. Two episodes a week allowed me to speedrun his descent into madness creating worse and worse product before finishing in disgrace and shame.
I was hired to modernize them for Korean Public radio. Two episodes a week allowed me to speedrun his descent into madness creating worse and worse product before finishing in disgrace and shame.
These books are a wild ride of weird Christmas Ghost stories, and you can really feel a man slowly going insane trying to pull off a weird challenge he gave himself to try and replicate one of the biggest successes in publishing history once a year with no time to do it properly and failing.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
These books are a wild ride of weird Christmas Ghost stories, and you can really feel a man slowly going insane trying to pull off a weird challenge he gave himself to try and replicate one of the biggest successes in publishing history once a year with no time to do it properly and failing.
1867's No Thoroughfare was 23 in the series, and he'd never had another banger holiday classic like A Christmas Carol. The series ended, and was mostly forgotten.
Some of the anthologies are in print today, but with all of the ghostwritten parts taken out so nothing happens and they make no sense.
Some of the anthologies are in print today, but with all of the ghostwritten parts taken out so nothing happens and they make no sense.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
1867's No Thoroughfare was 23 in the series, and he'd never had another banger holiday classic like A Christmas Carol. The series ended, and was mostly forgotten.
Some of the anthologies are in print today, but with all of the ghostwritten parts taken out so nothing happens and they make no sense.
Some of the anthologies are in print today, but with all of the ghostwritten parts taken out so nothing happens and they make no sense.
His pettiness didn't end there.
66's Mugby Junction was a spooky Christmas anthology set at a specific train station that Dickens himself admitted was solely so he could dunk on a waitress who worked there and didn't recognize him and made him pay for his coffee before she passed the sugar.
66's Mugby Junction was a spooky Christmas anthology set at a specific train station that Dickens himself admitted was solely so he could dunk on a waitress who worked there and didn't recognize him and made him pay for his coffee before she passed the sugar.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
His pettiness didn't end there.
66's Mugby Junction was a spooky Christmas anthology set at a specific train station that Dickens himself admitted was solely so he could dunk on a waitress who worked there and didn't recognize him and made him pay for his coffee before she passed the sugar.
66's Mugby Junction was a spooky Christmas anthology set at a specific train station that Dickens himself admitted was solely so he could dunk on a waitress who worked there and didn't recognize him and made him pay for his coffee before she passed the sugar.
In 1862, his ghostwriters asked for credit, so he fired them all and hired a new crew to write Somebody's Luggage, a Christmas story about a guy whose stories are stolen and published under someone else's name and he's happy for the exposure.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In 1862, his ghostwriters asked for credit, so he fired them all and hired a new crew to write Somebody's Luggage, a Christmas story about a guy whose stories are stolen and published under someone else's name and he's happy for the exposure.
The worst of this era was The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, which is literally just the most racist, pro-genocide piece of crap I have ever read.
Eventually, Dickens' ghostwriters got angry, and demanded credit for their work on these spooky Christmas books. That's when he got petty.
Eventually, Dickens' ghostwriters got angry, and demanded credit for their work on these spooky Christmas books. That's when he got petty.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
The worst of this era was The Perils of Certain English Prisoners, which is literally just the most racist, pro-genocide piece of crap I have ever read.
Eventually, Dickens' ghostwriters got angry, and demanded credit for their work on these spooky Christmas books. That's when he got petty.
Eventually, Dickens' ghostwriters got angry, and demanded credit for their work on these spooky Christmas books. That's when he got petty.
They were... inconsistent.
Some were super fun! Or prescient!
Nobody's Story was about how capitalist greed causes pandemics, despite being written before germ theory.
Many were bad. Several awful stories had the spooky premise of "a woman marrying a foreigner so her family dies in shame."
Some were super fun! Or prescient!
Nobody's Story was about how capitalist greed causes pandemics, despite being written before germ theory.
Many were bad. Several awful stories had the spooky premise of "a woman marrying a foreigner so her family dies in shame."
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
They were... inconsistent.
Some were super fun! Or prescient!
Nobody's Story was about how capitalist greed causes pandemics, despite being written before germ theory.
Many were bad. Several awful stories had the spooky premise of "a woman marrying a foreigner so her family dies in shame."
Some were super fun! Or prescient!
Nobody's Story was about how capitalist greed causes pandemics, despite being written before germ theory.
Many were bad. Several awful stories had the spooky premise of "a woman marrying a foreigner so her family dies in shame."
For over a decade, Dickens would write a framing story, like, a man walks into a creepy old house and randos want to tell him spooky crap. Then, while he was working on a novel, ghostwriters would just write any old spooky Christmas story they wanted, and he would plug them in without any credit.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
For over a decade, Dickens would write a framing story, like, a man walks into a creepy old house and randos want to tell him spooky crap. Then, while he was working on a novel, ghostwriters would just write any old spooky Christmas story they wanted, and he would plug them in without any credit.
In '51, Chuckie Dicks tried to get away with just writing a preachy essay called What Christmas Is As We Grow Older.
The people were not having it. Christmas was supposed to be about SPOOKY SHIT.
So he decided he had to bring in the ghostwriters.
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The people were not having it. Christmas was supposed to be about SPOOKY SHIT.
So he decided he had to bring in the ghostwriters.
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December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In '51, Chuckie Dicks tried to get away with just writing a preachy essay called What Christmas Is As We Grow Older.
The people were not having it. Christmas was supposed to be about SPOOKY SHIT.
So he decided he had to bring in the ghostwriters.
[if the thread stops, click MORE REPLIES]
The people were not having it. Christmas was supposed to be about SPOOKY SHIT.
So he decided he had to bring in the ghostwriters.
[if the thread stops, click MORE REPLIES]
Weirdly, A Christmas Tree did get a Rankin/Bass animated adaptation. I haven't seen it, but I assume they left out the sexy corpse.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Weirdly, A Christmas Tree did get a Rankin/Bass animated adaptation. I haven't seen it, but I assume they left out the sexy corpse.
He could NOT keep up the pace.
1850's A Christmas Tree was... weird.
Starts with 20 minutes describing every ornament on a tree, then 15 minutes getting horny on main over Little Red Riding Hood, suddenly he's getting turned on by a lady in a wet T-shirt and finds out she's a drowned corpse.
1850's A Christmas Tree was... weird.
Starts with 20 minutes describing every ornament on a tree, then 15 minutes getting horny on main over Little Red Riding Hood, suddenly he's getting turned on by a lady in a wet T-shirt and finds out she's a drowned corpse.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
He could NOT keep up the pace.
1850's A Christmas Tree was... weird.
Starts with 20 minutes describing every ornament on a tree, then 15 minutes getting horny on main over Little Red Riding Hood, suddenly he's getting turned on by a lady in a wet T-shirt and finds out she's a drowned corpse.
1850's A Christmas Tree was... weird.
Starts with 20 minutes describing every ornament on a tree, then 15 minutes getting horny on main over Little Red Riding Hood, suddenly he's getting turned on by a lady in a wet T-shirt and finds out she's a drowned corpse.
Chuck took a year off, and came back in '48 with The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. Where a Ghost of Christmas helped a dude forget his trauma, and having lost all of his connections to the people around him, he turned into Mr. Hyde.
Spooky Christmas was back on the table, boys!
Spooky Christmas was back on the table, boys!
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Chuck took a year off, and came back in '48 with The Haunted Man and the Ghost’s Bargain. Where a Ghost of Christmas helped a dude forget his trauma, and having lost all of his connections to the people around him, he turned into Mr. Hyde.
Spooky Christmas was back on the table, boys!
Spooky Christmas was back on the table, boys!
In '45, he wrote The Cricket on the Hearth. He followed up ghosts and goblins with a fairy who helps a husband realize his wife isn't cheating on him
'46's The Battle of Life was just a quaint romantic drama. Nothing supernatural. It bombed. People wanted SPOOKY CRAP for Christmas.
'46's The Battle of Life was just a quaint romantic drama. Nothing supernatural. It bombed. People wanted SPOOKY CRAP for Christmas.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
In '45, he wrote The Cricket on the Hearth. He followed up ghosts and goblins with a fairy who helps a husband realize his wife isn't cheating on him
'46's The Battle of Life was just a quaint romantic drama. Nothing supernatural. It bombed. People wanted SPOOKY CRAP for Christmas.
'46's The Battle of Life was just a quaint romantic drama. Nothing supernatural. It bombed. People wanted SPOOKY CRAP for Christmas.
Scrooge was a big hit in 1843. The world called for a franchise and Chucky Dicks was sure he could squeeze out a spooky Christmas novella every winter to meet demand.
In '44 he pulled it off! The Chimes was a proto-It's A Wonderful Life with goblins who showed an old man what'd happen if he died.
In '44 he pulled it off! The Chimes was a proto-It's A Wonderful Life with goblins who showed an old man what'd happen if he died.
December 25, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Scrooge was a big hit in 1843. The world called for a franchise and Chucky Dicks was sure he could squeeze out a spooky Christmas novella every winter to meet demand.
In '44 he pulled it off! The Chimes was a proto-It's A Wonderful Life with goblins who showed an old man what'd happen if he died.
In '44 he pulled it off! The Chimes was a proto-It's A Wonderful Life with goblins who showed an old man what'd happen if he died.
See, when South Korea had a dictator, anyone out after midnight went to jail.
Except for one night.
Because US soldiers started it, there were no curfew rules on December 24th.
Suddenly, a night that had little local meaning became everyone's one night of freedom.
Except for one night.
Because US soldiers started it, there were no curfew rules on December 24th.
Suddenly, a night that had little local meaning became everyone's one night of freedom.
December 25, 2025 at 12:53 AM
See, when South Korea had a dictator, anyone out after midnight went to jail.
Except for one night.
Because US soldiers started it, there were no curfew rules on December 24th.
Suddenly, a night that had little local meaning became everyone's one night of freedom.
Except for one night.
Because US soldiers started it, there were no curfew rules on December 24th.
Suddenly, a night that had little local meaning became everyone's one night of freedom.
Yeesh I may need to repost this thread in its entirety just because that dude's name ruins everything.
December 25, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Yeesh I may need to repost this thread in its entirety just because that dude's name ruins everything.
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December 24, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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The dandelion speck froze, which is how Whovile gets winter! It will thaw again.
December 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
The dandelion speck froze, which is how Whovile gets winter! It will thaw again.