ABOUT

Ron Hotz is an artist, author, and family physician. His work has been featured online and in publications such as Kuti Magazine, Forge. Art Magazine, Pencil Magazine, Meathaus, Ink Brick, ART BOOOOOM!, Sequential State, NOW, Think Faest, Broken Pencil, and Bird Bath. His paintings and drawings have been represented by the Drey Gallery. In 2026 his photgraphs were exhibited by Superchief Gallery LA.

Draw Blood, his first graphic novel, was nominated for a 2017 Doug Wright award for excellence in cartooning. In 2019 his follow up graphic novel Promising Jupiter received an Ontario Arts Council grant upon the recommendation of Annie Koyama of Koyama Press and was nominated for a Doug Wright Award. His Wu-Tang name is Lucky Warlock.