About Eugene Randolph Young

Eugene Randolph Young is an artist, illustrator, graphic designer and educator based in the San Francisco Bay Area, in California. He produces independent science fiction and fantasy illustration and comics inspired by indigenous lore, cyberpunk and Afrofuturism. 

His Afromancers IP is an exploration of world-building and cultural narratives based on the aesthetics, customs, and technologies of African and African-American hair.

His recent HXMP mech design series came out of a fascination with the design of Japanese mecha that started in the early 80s with model kits and toys from Japan. Local retailers such as R.A. Martin’s (El Cerrito), Iron Horse (Berkeley), Toy World and Kay-Bee (Richmond/Hilltop Mall), and Hood’s Hobbies (Richmond) and Kimono My House (Emeryville) were among the first in the East Bay to sell the imports from Japan. Long hours building and painting the kits added a lot to his design vocabulary and spatial reasoning skills.

As of the fall of 2023 he is an Assistant Professor of Design Visualization in the School of Design at San Francisco State University.