Echoes of the Garage

Fragments of life in Los Angeles — art, film, street stories, and the quiet rebuilding of a man. Start here: Best Of • About • Subscribe.

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October 4, 2025

“Translation of Reading Things You Don’t Understand”

Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓 Saturday, October 4, 2025 — 5:06 p.m. Sitting in my white GMC van on Crenshaw, I finish off a box of chili cheese fries from Wienerschnitzel. The shade’s cool, the breeze gentle. Jeremy Corbell’s voice plays through my phone — another whistleblower, another mystery. This one’s about a report… Continue reading

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October 3, 2025

“Sitting in Distress”

Follow me on X: @punisherpapi · IG: @punisherpapi 📓Friday, October 3, 2025 — 1:59 p.m. I’m sitting in the dark, watching a UFO whistleblower on Jeremy Corbell’s YouTube channel. Outside, my white GMC van waits with its hood up, as my neighbor replaces the brake power booster. He’s the man I call the Cartel Mechanic — a Mexican… Continue reading

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About Me

I’m Roberto Sanchez — illustrator, writer, and delivery driver in Los Angeles.

By day, I sell plastic bags out of a van across South Central.

By night, I draw, write, and build my life brick by brick.

I graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 2022 with a BFA in Illustration, but art has never been just school to me. It’s survival, reflection, and expression. My illustrations come slow — patience is part of the work.

I live and create out of a converted garage.

That small room became Echoes of the Garage — the place where I put words, drawings, and the pieces of a life I’m rebuilding one step at a time.

Here you’ll find journal entries, Hood Chronicles, and visual experiments that try to capture the absurd, the painful, and the human in everyday life.

This is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

This site is where I put it all: drawings, words, and fragments of a life in motion.

journaling

“Translation of Reading Things You Don’t Understand”

“Sitting in Distress”