David Choe

David Choe (born April 21, 1976) is an American artist, musician, and former journalist and podcast host from Los Angeles. Choe’s work appears in a wide variety of urban culture and entertainment contexts. He has illustrated and written for magazines including Hustler, Ray Gun and Vice. He has an ongoing relationship with the Asian pop culture store-cum-magazine Giant Robot.[1] He once hung his work in a Double Rainbow ice cream shop located on Melrose Avenue.[2] His figurative paintings, which explore themes of desire, degradation, and exaltation, are characterized by a raw, frenetic method that he has termed “dirty style

In 1996, Choe self-published a graphic novel titled Slow Jams; he claims to have made only 200 copies and given them away at Comic-Con in 1998, hoping to interest a publisher. In 1999, he submitted Slow Jams for the Xeric Grant and was awarded $5,000 to self-publish a second, expanded edition of 1,000 which came out in 1999 with a cover price of $4