Joshua Dysart

Joshua Dysart is the multiple Eisner nominated NYTimes Best Seller of 16 graphic novels. His work has been the cover story of the New York Times Art section and he has been covered by the BBC, NPR and CNBC. In 2007 he traveled to the Ugandan/Sudanese border to interview child soldiers in the LRA/UPDF conflict as research for his comic UNKNOWN SOLDIER, praised by IGN as one of the best comics of the last decade.



What Joshua will be doing at DIY DAYS

Building Next Gen Comics

With the collapse of the economy and the rise of digital distribution the old model comic book industry has found itself in an existential crisis. Past reliance on other media to subsidize it has left us with a landscape where making and marketing comics for comics’ sake has become increasingly difficult. Sound gloomy? Not if you look at this as an opportunity to rebuild the medium in favor of the creator and the idea. It’s time for comics to go back to being punk rock.

 

DIY DAYS asks Joshua

 

What are you currently working on that you’re excited about?

I’m doing a project for Radical and Sam Worthington’s FULL CLIP comics called Patrios. It’s shaping up quite well. I’m really enjoying that creative relationship. The entire team at Full Clip is great.

What are some of your favorite sites and / or mobile apps and brief why?

I don’t have a smart phone. I’m still rolling on a flip. Call me a Luddite call me what you will. Say I’m old fashion, say I’m over the hill. Today’s phones ain’t got the same soul. I like that good old flip phone rock n’ roll! As far as web sites go, it’s probably Daily Kos, Mubi.com, Poetryfoundation.org, Digitaldj.com, Carbusters.org and Comicsbeat.com

What are you currently watching, reading or playing?

I’m currently watching The Wire (I know… I’m late to the party), Sonny Chiba movies and I’m working through the wikipedia list of “Mainstream films with non-simulated sexual activity”. I’m rereading Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. And I’ve put my next gen console in the closet and have pulled out my old PS2, so I’m replaying all my favorite titles from the greatest game system ever made.

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