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Buddha: A Story of Enlightenment #3
Based on the novel by Deepak Chopra
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Artist: Harshvardhan Kadam
Cover: Satish Tayade
Colors: S.M. Bhaskar/Venkat Vasa
Letters: Nilesh L. Kudale
Asst. Editor: Charlie Beckerman
Editor: Mariah Huehne/Gotham Chopra
"The dialogue and tone of the writing is respectful
and contemporary. There should be no language problem
here. Dysart takes the source material and uses it as a
modern parable, even when he throws in the ancient parables
of soothsayers." - Broken Frontier
To see this video in a larger size, click Here
B.P.R.D: 1946 #5
Writers: Mike Mignola & Joshua Dysart
Artist: Paul Azaceta
Cover Artist: Mike Mignola/Dave Stewart
Colorist: Nick Filardi
Letters: Clem Robbins
Editor: Scott Allie
Assistant Editor: Rachel Edidin
Designer: Amy Arendts
"While war is horrible for the things that men do to one
another, it is also horrible for the simple blind, random
tragedies that reach out and touch, not just combatants,
but also spectators. Mignola and Dysart have crafted a
story that captures this callous truth while also making
a spooky tale that is worthy of the Hellboy property."
- Comics Bulletin
Mignola/Dysart interview- Comics on Comics
(For those not in the know... BPRD stands for
Bureau for Paranormal Research and Defense)
The exciting conclusion!!
COLLECTED TRADES AND GRAPHIC NOVELS!
CONAN AND THE MIDNIGHT GOD TPB
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Artist: Will Conrad
Colorist: Juan Ferreyra
Letterer: Richard Starkings & Comicraft
Cover: Jason Shawn Alexander
Editors: Scott Allie/Matt Dryer
"This is epic storytelling at its best, with plenty
of sword-and-sorcery action - combined with a
real-world allegory about the evils of going to war
for less-than-honorable reasons - to keep any
barbarian lover riveted to the page."
- Wizard
"Joshua Dysart mimics Robert E. Howard's
language deftly, and weaves a tapestry of the
juicy elements that made Conan stories fun to
read: monsters, sorcerers, swordplay, and an
emphasis on the conflict between civilization
and barbarism." -
The Comic Book Bin
Click here to witness the creation process
behind Midnight God #1. Compare script pages
to layouts, look at pencils before and after
coloring and watch the lettering pull it all together.
Very cool indeed.
And here's video of my intrepid editor, Scott Allie,
and I rapping about CONAN AND THE MIDNIGHT
GOD at San Diego Comic Con 2006
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To watch the video in a larger format click here .
And lastly, you can find an extensive commentary for
“Conan & The Midnight God†issue #1 by editor
Scott Allie and myself here . Including insights into the
process of creating the series; anecdotes concerning
the original artist's abandonment of the project and
the sorted truth behind how I got the gig; as well as
in-depth discussion regarding the philosophy behind
the book. All broken down page by page. Check it out.
MAKE 5 WISHES VOL I
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Artist: Camilla d'Errico
"A surprisingly profound animated manga fantasy.
Whatever your thoughts on Lavigne, it's compelling
reading." - The Gaurdian Unlimited
"Make 5 Wishes is a disturbingly well-constructed
comic with a current spin on a classic story, the Monkey's
Paw specifically. Powerful metaphors and fascinating
character gradations make "Make 5 Wishes" by far the
most compelling work that grafts a popular name
from North American media onto the style of anime
or manga." - Aint It Cool News
"In a way, it's almost disturbing how close to home it
hits on issues of modern youth: alienation, identity,
celebrity worship and screwing around on the internet
(aren't we all too familiar with that one)."
- Anime News Network
MAKE 5 WISHES VOL. II
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Artist: Camillad'Errico
"As an accomplished and well-constructed
story, Avril Lavigne's Make 5 Wishes may wind
up being the most attractive silk purse woven
from a sow's ear in 2007." - The Comics Journal
Captain Gravity And The Power of The Vril
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Art: Sal Velluto
Inks: Bob Almond/Joe Rbenstein/Sal Velluto
Color: Mike Garcia
Cover: Sal Velluto/Mike Garcia
Editor: Michelled Nichols/Marlaine Maddux
Finally in stores!! And with 30 extra pages of
story and art not found in the original series!!
"Writer Joshua Dysart evokes Golden Age
Hollywood at the dawn of World War II through
compelling period details, while launching the
characters into a story that mixes action-adventure
tropes of the day with a more post-modern sense
of realism. Captain Gravity pushes the same buttons
as other inspired-by-serials stories, but Dysart tells
a much deeper, more graceful story than any of those
works have managed."
- The Las Vegas Weekly
"The best B movie never made - Loads of fun!"
- Comixtreme.com
Swamp Thing: Love In Vain
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Art: Enrique Breccia/Timothy Green II/John Totleben
Color: Martin Breccia
Editor: Jon Vankin
"Dysart's writing is among the best in contemporary
comics. He balances old-fashioned, EC style
monster stories with the intense conceptual explorations
for which the Vertigo imprint is known. It is both a
thrilling read and a moving reflection on some of the
core elements of human existence, loneliness and
love, delusion and faith. In fact, the greatest horror
doesn't come from the revulsion of monstrous
sexual intercourse or vicious violence; it comes
from the realization that love and faith may fail,
leaving us abandoned and forlorn in loneliness."
- Silver Bullet Comics
LOVE IN VAIN is my first Swamp Thing trade
Swamp Thing: Healing the Breach
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Artist: Enrique Breccia/Ronald Wimberly/Richard Corben/John Totleben
Color: Martin Breccia
Cover: Enrique Breccia
Editor: Jon Vankin
HEALING THE BREACH is my second Swamp Thing trade.
(Issues 21 - 29 remain uncollected)
VIOLENT MESSIAHS: BOOK OF JOB
Writer: Joshua Dysart
Art: Tone Rodriguez/Angel Medina/Andy Park/Ed McGuinness
Color: Travis Smith
Cover: Travis Smith
Editor: Jan Utstein-O'Neill
Violent Messiahs was an Eisner Nominee,
A Wizard Fan Award Nominee and a
Harvey Award Nominee...
Always a bride's maid...
( Lamenting Pain , the second Violent Messiahs story
line, has never been collected).
I'd like to meet:
Left to Right: 1st Row - Albert Einstein, Jean-Luc Godard, Toni Morrison, Dr. Richard Alpert (AKA Baba Ram Dass)
2nd Row - Laozi (also transliterated as Lao Tzu, Lao Tse and Laotze), Bernardine Dohrn, "Blind" Willie Johnson, Miles Dewey Davis III
3rd Row - Winsor McCay, John Ernst Steinbeck III, Maya Deren (born Eleanora Derenkowsky), Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (addressed in India and worldwide as Mahatma Gandhi)
4th Row - Octavio Paz Lozano, Queen Zenobia (or Xenobia), Charles Milles Manson, Alan Wilson Watts
5th Row - Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, Fran Marie Arouet (better known by the pen name Voltaire), Walter "Walt" Whitman, Cheyenne Peace Chief Black Kettle (pronounced Moke-tav-a-to in his native language)
