The 2024 Campaign: A Deep Dive into Fenerbahçe’s Title Hunt
The air in Istanbul is always thick with anticipation at the start of a new football season, but for Fenerbahçe fans, the 2024 campaign carries a unique weight. After years of near misses and frustrating second-place finishes, the Yellow Canaries entere...
World Environment Day: A Global Call to Action for Our Planet
Every year on June 5th, the world unites for a singular, urgent purpose: to celebrate and protect our shared home. This is World Environment Day, the United Nations’ principal vehicle for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the environm...
The Unfamiliar Planet: The Secrets Hidden Beneath Our Daily Reality
We live our entire lives on Earth, charting its surfaces, forecasting its weather, and relying on its predictable cycles of day and night. We have mapped its continents, named its mountains, and settled its shores. This constant exposure breeds a profou...
Remote Work Trends in 2025: How to Thrive in the New Normal
Introduction: The Future of Work is Remote Remote work is no longer a temporary solution; it’s becoming the standard way of working across industries. As we move deeper into 2025, understanding the latest remote work trends is crucial for both emp...
Braves vs Reds: National League Clash Showcases Pitching Power and Playoff Hopes
The Cincinnati Reds welcome the Atlanta Braves to Great American Ball Park tonight in a crucial braves vs reds interdivisional matchup that carries significant weight for both teams’ postseason aspirations. As fans search for “reds game today”...
Theater of Terror: Deadname No More!
This is a 12 page comic book story I was invited to submit to an anthology of LGBT Horror Comics. I told a haunted house story starring a character that looks remarkably like myself. Digital ink and color. It is for sale at Northwest Press....
High Top Happy Hour with DJ Shortkut
After the success of the artwork for the Wedding Weirdos podcast, Cage and Aquarium needed a logo and a poster for their 1980's themed hip hop DJ happy hours. High Top Happy Hour is named after the shoes made famous by Air Jordan. They gave me free rein, and j...
Danielle Spencer: From “Dee” in What’s Happening!! to Dr. Danielle Spencer Today
For fans of classic sitcoms, the name Danielle Spencer instantly brings back memories of What’s Happening!!, the hit ABC comedy that ran from 1976 to 1979. As Dee Thomas, the quick-witted younger sister of Roger, she stole countless scenes with her sharp...
Faraday Condominiums
Working for one of our favorite clients realtor Doug Fuller we designed a website and 12 page brochure promoting a newly built new nine unit condominium in Oakland. When the project was begun, there were only drawings and computer rendering, so we made use...
2019 Insurance Lady Marketing
2019 has been a strong year for the Ruth Stroup Insurance Agency so far. The number one Farmer's Insurance agent on the Oakland East Bay, The Insurance Lady celebrated her fifth Best of Oakland award and was featured in Oakland Magazine's Face of The East Bay...
Self-Portrait Series
A fun personal project, this is an on-going series of digital ink self-portraits taken from photo reference emphasizing color and mood in a graphic illustrative style. Follow me on Instagram for updates....
The Latest Insurance Lady Marketing
It’s a been a busy year for Secret Fan Base and the Ruth Stroup Insurance Agency. Farmers Insurance. We’ve updated graphic design for her vehicle fleet, event booth signage and more. This booth at the 2018 Oakland, CA LGBT Pride Day festival...
Woodies Picnic at the ADM
This year’s Woody’s Picnic poster for the ADM was a direct trace of a photograph of a car in Adobe Illustrator, styled with a graphic comic look. The background was intentionally loose and quick, with freehand graphic shapes. The main font is a f...
The Holiday Albums
Oakland, CA Realtor Doug Fuller has incredibly eclectic taste in Christmas music. Each year he puts together a Christmas CD for his friends and clients with a wonderful mix of unusual holiday music and SecretFanBase has been delighted to create memorable illus...
Three To Infinity
Trailer — Three to Infinity: Beyond two genders from Lonny Shavelson on Vimeo....
Bastille Day!
Thanks to Martin Ortega at Lumiere Electric I had the opportunity to design this image for the invitation to his annual Bastille Day/Tour de France party. Such fun! ...
Fusion Metals Logo Design
A recent very fun project came to me by way of referral from another Oakland graphic designer, Ross Turner. The client, metal artist Hilary Engleman, wanted a special effects logo that simulated the spark from welding metal. With my background as a animation p...
Oakland Pride
Ruth Stroup Insurance was excited to participate in Oakland Gay Pride 2014 festivities and in particular was interested in running an ad for the Insurance Lady in the Pink Spots directory, which is distributed free to cafes and bars and other businesses in t...
Sheriff Callie’s Wild West on Disney Junior
The last animated series I worked on had it’s debut in January 2014 on Disney Jr. Sheriff Callie’s Wild West is the brainchild of Denis Morella and George Evelyn who also created Higglytown Heroes. After working on the series for 18 months as a pre...
