Oceano
—  census-designated place  —
Location in San Luis Obispo County and the state of California
Coordinates: 35°6′10″N 120°36′41″W / 35.10278°N 120.61139°W / 35.10278; -120.61139Coordinates: 35°6′10″N 120°36′41″W / 35.10278°N 120.61139°W / 35.10278; -120.61139
Country	United States
State	California
County	San Luis Obispo
Area[1]
• Total	1.547 sq mi (4.006 km2)
• Land	1.532 sq mi (3.967 km2)
• Water	0.015 sq mi (0.039 km2)  0.98%
Elevation	30 ft (9 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	7,286
• Density	4,700/sq mi (1,800/km2)
Time zone	Pacific (PST) (UTC-8)
• Summer (DST)	PDT (UTC-7)
ZIP codes	93445, 93475
Area code(s)	805
FIPS code	06-53294
GNIS feature ID	1652760

Oceano ( /oʊʃiˈɑːnoʊ/ or /oʊsiˈɑːnoʊ/; Spanish: [oˈθeano]) is a census-designated place (CDP) in San Luis Obispo County, California, United States. The population was 7,286 at the 2010 census, up from 7,260 at the 2000 census.

Geography[link]

Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area

Oceano is located at 35°6′10″N 120°36′41″W / 35.10278°N 120.61139°W / 35.10278; -120.61139 (35.102680, -120.611471).^[2]

Oceano is part of the 5 Cities Metropolitan Area. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²), of which, 1.5 square miles (3.9 km²) of it is land and 0.02 square miles (0.052 km²) of it (0.98%) is water.

Oceano's beach is the Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area, a 1,500 acres (6.1 km²) coastal sand dune. As the only state park in California where visitors may drive vehicles on the beach, tourists are attracted from all over the United States. Activities on this beach include riding the sand dunes on all-terrain-vehicles, swimming, clamming, camping, surfing, surf fishing, hiking, and bird watching.

Demographics[link]

2010[link]

The 2010 United States Census^[3] reported that Oceano had a population of 7,286. The population density was 4,710.2 people per square mile (1,818.6/km²). The racial makeup of Oceano was 5,105 (70.1%) White, 62 (0.9%) African American, 120 (1.6%) Native American, 165 (2.3%) Asian, 7 (0.1%) Pacific Islander, 1,509 (20.7%) from other races, and 318 (4.4%) from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 3,484 persons (47.8%).

The Census reported that 7,286 people (100% of the population) lived in households, 0 (0%) lived in non-institutionalized group quarters, and 0 (0%) were institutionalized.

There were 2,603 households, out of which 904 (34.7%) had children under the age of 18 living in them, 1,147 (44.1%) were opposite-sex married couples living together, 360 (13.8%) had a female householder with no husband present, 197 (7.6%) had a male householder with no wife present. There were 197 (7.6%) unmarried opposite-sex partnerships, and 38 (1.5%) same-sex married couples or partnerships. 680 households (26.1%) were made up of individuals and 266 (10.2%) had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.80. There were 1,704 families (65.5% of all households); the average family size was 3.39.

The population was spread out with 1,738 people (23.9%) under the age of 18, 747 people (10.3%) aged 18 to 24, 2,028 people (27.8%) aged 25 to 44, 1,870 people (25.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 903 people (12.4%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 35.4 years. For every 100 females there were 101.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.7 males.

There were 3,117 housing units at an average density of 2,015.1 per square mile (778.0/km²), of which 1,355 (52.1%) were owner-occupied, and 1,248 (47.9%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 3.7%; the rental vacancy rate was 5.9%. 3,444 people (47.3% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 3,842 people (52.7%) lived in rental housing units.

2000[link]

As of the census^[4] of 2000, there were 7,260 people, 2,447 households, and 1,722 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 4,774.4 people per square mile (1,844.1/km²). There were 2,762 housing units at an average density of 1,816.4 per square mile (701.6/km²). The racial makeup of the CDP was 68.73% White, 1.12% African American, 1.29% Native American, 1.80% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 21.78% from other races, and 5.25% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 44.63% of the population.

There were 2,447 households out of which 38.8% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 50.2% were married couples living together, 14.8% had a female householder with no husband present, and 29.6% were non-families. 23.0% of all households were made up of individuals and 9.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.96 and the average family size was 3.50.

In the CDP the population was spread out with 29.5% under the age of 18, 10.2% from 18 to 24, 29.8% from 25 to 44, 20.1% from 45 to 64, and 10.4% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females there were 97.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 96.3 males.

The median income for a household in the CDP was $38,014, and the median income for a family was $39,254. Males had a median income of $28,180 versus $21,310 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $16,561. About 14.1% of families and 16.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 22.0% of those under age 18 and 6.2% of those age 65 or over.

Culture[link]

• The Great American Melodrama[1] performs original plays nightly in Oceano. Irish poet and Celtic mythologist Ella Young's final years were spent in Oceano (she died there in 1956).

Politics[link]

In the state legislature Oceano is located in the 15th Senate District, represented by Republican Abel Maldonado, and in the 33rd Assembly District, represented by Republican Sam Blakeslee. Federally, Oceano is located in California's 23rd congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +9^[5] and is represented by Democrat Lois Capps.

References[link]

External links[link]

Look up Oceano in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

• Oceano Dunes State Vehicle Recreation Area - Dune Guide

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It has been suggested that Adam Warren Sketchbook be merged into this article or section. (Discuss) Proposed since November 2011.

Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his adaptation of the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style. He has also contributed to several Gen¹³ comics, worked as writer and character designer for the Marvel Comics series Livewires, and done numerous freelance works. His two latest projects are Iron Man: Hypervelocity and Empowered.^[1][2]

Early career[link]

Warren was born in New Hampshire. He began attending The Kubert School in Dover, New Jersey in 1985, but became unsure about his future in graphic art after less than a year of attendance. Over the Christmas break of his first year he chanced upon manga and anime, some of which was the original Dirty Pair, and this renewed his drive to become an artist. After a year of attempting to acquire the rights to produce a comic based on the series he was finally able to make inroads with Toren Smith and Studio Proteus. Warren put together a portfolio of Dirty Pair–related work which Smith then took to Sunrise Studios, but they were unimpressed with the work and negotiations went nowhere. Smith then contacted Takachiho Haruka, the creator of the Dirty Pair, who was much more impressed with Warren's art and Smith's ideas and agreed to license the characters for an American comic. The only requirement was that the character designs be somewhat different from the anime versions to avoid copyright issues with Sunrise. This directly resulted in Warren's first major work, Dirty Pair: Biohazards, which he co-wrote with Toren Smith and published through Studio Proteus and Eclipse Comics in 1989. The next two Dirty Pair works would be co-written with Smith but starting with the fourth book, Sim Hell, it became a solo project.

Later career[link]

Throughout the '90s and into the 2000s Warren produced several Dirty Pair comics and trade paperbacks, a four part Bubblegum Crisis series called Grand Mal^[3] as well as cover, pin-up and other "freelance" art. During this time he provided numerous cover illustrations, most notably covers for the X-Men, Star Wars, Fantastic Four (while he was also penning a few stories), and Appleseed series, as well as some trading card art, and even in-house Christmas cards for Studio Proteus. Between Dirty Pair works he also penned a three part Terminator series called Hunters and Killers in 1992. Towards the end of the '90s and into early the 2000s he was one of the main writers, and to a lesser extent artist, for the Gen¹³ series from Wildstorm comics. He has done art commission work for Spin Magazine and PSM magazine. His PlayStation comics usually relate to their major featured article and are found on the back page of the magazine. His art has also been featured in their swimsuit edition. He has also been known to do some translation and scripting work, Seraphic Feather and Cannon God Exaxxion being two of the only known credited examples.

Drawing style[link]

Warren's drawing style is heavily influenced by Japanese manga, like character design, kinetic line work, and vignettes with no dialogue where feelings are expressed only with the expression of faces and backgrounds. However, his style retained characteristics of American comics.

Warren makes very tight pencil layouts of the pages before they are inked, toned and colored.^[4] According to Warren himself, everyone who saw the layouts said, to his chagrin, that they liked them better than the final colored pages. On Empowered he tried a new style, the pages are greyscale reproductions of pencil "layouts", and they are neither inked nor toned.^[4] The layouts that he uses are cleaner and more tightened versions of his layouts for previous works.^[4]

This pencil layout style is also seen on several of his Dirty Pair short stories, and in a pair of pages of Gen13 Magical Drama Queen Roxy, a Gen¹³ miniseries, where one of the characters starts a deconstructing/poststructuralist device that deconstructs the comic through all the stages of production: color, color guides, inked page, tight pencil layout, rough pencil layout and script.

Recent works[link]

Warren's more recent works include yet more freelance art for various companies, including a long run on the back page of PSM Magazine, and his latest completed series: Livewires and Iron Man: Hypervelocity. There have also been rumors of another Dirty Pair series in the works (as of 2005). Although Warren had promised several times in the past to continue work with the Lovely Angels, it has been several years since his last major Dirty Pair work. To date at least two planned DP related series have failed to come to market; the first a side-story meant to follow the character Shasti and the second a DP/Superman cross-over. Warren also created several pictures based on the video game SSX 3 of the SSX series.^[5]

Warren's latest work, which he is be both writing and drawing, is a series of original graphic novels called Empowered. He describes the series as "an episodic 'sexy superhero comedy', mixing a twisted take on costumed crime-fighting, romance, and absurdist workplace humor with a strong dose of that 'manga flava'... and just a dash of the kinky." The first trade paper back was published by Dark Horse Comics in March 2007 after a slight delay, Volume Two was released in September 2007,^[6] Volume Three in March 2008 and Volume Four was released towards the end of October 2008 after a delay of about a month or so.^[7] Volume Five was released in late June 2009. Volume Six was released on September 21, 2010. Unusually, the series is neither inked nor colored, but rather sourced directly from pencil drawing, something which Warren has not done for a complete series before and is not the norm in the American comic book industry.

Bibliography[link]

Notes[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Adam Warren at deviantART
• Adam Warren on Myspace
• [1] at Marvel.com

Interviews[link]

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• 2004 Interview, part 1 at Pulp-Mag.com (web archive)
• 2004 Interview, part 2 at Pulp-Mag.com (web archive)
• June 2009 Interview at DarkHorse.com