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ImagineFX staff

How the US rustbelt inspired Godzilla Rivals artist's retro futurist kaijus and mechas

Kaiju artwork.

The character artist and illustrator Oliver Ono worked on Godzilla Rivals II: Battra, written by Rosie Knight and published by IDW, and has created promotional art for clothing brand Garuda, editorial art for the magazine Read-Only Memory and a short in Spitball II: A Comic Anthology, for which he worked with Eisner Award nominee Jonathan Hickman.

He excels at depicting retro futurist kaijus and mechas, and Oliver thinks was partly inspired by his growing up in the American Rust Belt, where the environment reflects a more industrious past. This led to him injecting his characters and stories with a sense of history that’s often left for the viewer to decipher.

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