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Joshua Dysart

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http://www.joshuadysart.com

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Comics & Graphic Novels

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March 2013

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I write comic books, graphic novels and novels. I'm a three time Eisner nominee, two time Glyph award winner, New York Times bestseller, a recipient of The Dick Giordano Humanitarian of the Year award, and have been in competition twice at Angoulême.

I've worked on Hellboy, Swamp Thing, & Conan the Barbarian; I co-wrote a graphic novel with Neil Young; I helped restart Valiant Entertainment; and I've done on-the-ground research in Uganda (2007), Iraq (2014), & South Sudan (2016), writting graphic novels about war and famine in those regions.

Goodnight Paradise came out in 2018 with long time co-creator Alberto Ponticelli and is a murder mystery set in the houseless population of Venice Beach, Ca.

My first novel (novella - it's only 100 pages ...more

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Average rating: 3.95 · 20,647 ratings · 1,946 reviews · 378 distinct works • Similar authors

	Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1: Haunted House by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Alberto Ponticelli (Illustrator) 3.92 avg rating — 1,473 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harbinger, Vol. 1: Omega Rising by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Khari Evans (Illustrator), Lewis LaRosa (Illustrator) 3.89 avg rating — 1,363 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harbinger, Vol. 2: Renegades by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Philippe Briones (Illustrator), Barry Kitson (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 824 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harbinger, Vol. 3: Harbinger Wars by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Khari Evans (Artist), Trevor Hairsine (Penciller) 3.83 avg rating — 609 ratings — published 2013 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unknown Soldier, Vol. 2: Easy Kill by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Alberto Ponticelli (Illustrator) 4.08 avg rating — 412 ratings — published 2009 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harbinger, Vol. 4: Perfect Day by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Barry Kitson (Artist), Clayton Henry (Artist) 3.82 avg rating — 409 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Greendale by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Cliff Chiang (Illustrator) 3.27 avg rating — 477 ratings — published 2010 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goodnight Paradise by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Alberto Ponticelli (Artist), Giulia Brusco (Colorist) 3.97 avg rating — 381 ratings — published 2018 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Harbinger, Vol. 5: Death of a Renegade by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Clayton Crain (Artist), Khari Evans (Artist) 4.07 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 2014 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Imperium, Vol. 1: Collecting Monsters by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Doug Braithwaite (Artist) 3.67 avg rating — 324 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2015 In Music

PREAMBLE… BUY SOME FUCKING MUSIC! Buy a whole album, go to a show, pick up some merch, Just spend some money! But if you buy it online, try to buy from the artist’s website, or the label (if it’s a small one). Cool? Cool. So here we go, all the stuff that moved me this year. This is my most expansive attempt to celebrate a year in music so far. There’s the inevitable TOP TEN list, and then TOP FIV Read more of this blog post »

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Series by Joshua Dysart

Harbinger (2012) (8 books)
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Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer),

Rafa Sandoval (Artist),

Khari Evans (Artist),

Mico Suayan (Artist)

3.89 avg rating — 4,973 ratings

Unknown Soldier (4 books)
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Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author),

Aleberto Ponticelli (Illustrator),

Rick Veitch (Illustrator)

3.99 avg rating — 2,380 ratings

Imperium (4 books)
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Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer),

Khari Evans (Artist),

Victor Olazaba (Inker),

Ulises Arreola (Colourist),

Dave Sharpe (Letterer),

Diego Bernard (Cover Artist)

3.75 avg rating — 857 ratings

Goodnight Paradise (4 books)
by

Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (writer),

Alberto Ponticelli (artist),

Giulia Brusco (colorist),

Steve Wands (letterer),

Sebastian Girner (editor)

3.96 avg rating — 401 ratings

Swamp Thing (2004) (3 books)
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Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author),

Enrique Breccia (Illustrator),

Ron Wimberly (Illustrator),

Richard Corben (Illustrator)

3.13 avg rating — 407 ratings

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Joshua Dysart and 4 other people liked Méli's review of Spa: "I wish they would have kept the same red details found in the french translation to the english translation."
Aug 13, 2024 12:04PM · see review
Joshua Dysart and 6 other people liked Amelia's review of Spa: "What a strange, anxious book. With oddly detailed and unsettling illustrations, this loosely plotted book evokes a sense of dread more than a linear narrative. From the perspectives of the manager, HR representative, employees, and clients, we follow" Read more of this review »
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Joshua Dysart and 7 other people liked B.J. Swann's review of Spa: "People will either love or hate this depending on their sense of humour and whether they appreciate the art style. I loved it. Creepy, surreal, and darkly funny, with dashes of cosmic horror. Some parts had me laughing out loud, whilst at other times" Read more of this review »
Aug 13, 2024 12:03PM · see review
Joshua Dysart and 10 other people liked David Larsson's review of Spa: "Som en svensk Junji Ito."
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Joshua Dysart rated a book really liked it Spa by Erik Svetoft	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Don't go in expecting a traditional story. This is just a spill of fantastic horror imagery. Notional more than exacting. It reminds me a lot of the way Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell stories operate. Something has obviously bled into this world from so ...more
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Joshua Dysart rated a book it was ok Werewolf Jones & Sons Deluxe Summer Fun Annual (Megg, Mogg and Owl) by Simon Hanselmann	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
I don't know. I fell in love with Hanselmann's MEGAHEX comics because they were crass folly and misanthropy in service to something truthful about depression and the emptiness of the human condition. And that's not so much the case here. These are ju ...more
Jul 30, 2024 12:33PM · like · see review
Joshua Dysart made a comment on Den Shewman’s review of The Dark Net " "and thankfully there are no scenes of cultists in red robes in rooms chanting in a pentagram." Who deny yourself a literary pleasure, sir!!! Hey, look, ...more "
Jul 13, 2024 12:36PM · see review
Joshua Dysart made a comment on Jenna’s review of The Devil's Tome: A Book of Modern Satanic Ritual " Crazy... this looks kind of amazing "
Jul 13, 2024 12:32PM · see review
Joshua Dysart rated a book it was amazing The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Wow. I was pretty underwhelmed with this book of reworked fairy tales when I first started it. I found the opening story, THE BLOODY CHAMBER, a retelling of Blue Beard, awfully slight, even though it had a fun ending. I thought the language was too w ...more
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Joshua Dysart rated a book liked it The Inheritors: Introduced by Ben Okri by William Golding	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Absolutely extraordinary and ultimately pretty tedious. The great Golding tells the story a small cluster of neanderthals arriving at their summer hunting and gathering grounds where they encounter, for the first time, a larger tribe of homo sapiens ...more
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Quotes by Joshua Dysart (?)

“People, we're always reaching for these big things... you know? Big ideas... big moments... big lives. And all the while the little things we're ignoring are undoing us.”
― Joshua Dysart, Unknown Soldier, Vol. 2: Easy Kill

tags: big-dreams, goals-in-life, ignorance, life-philosophy, little-things

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“Knowledge has no significance [...] unless it is transformative.”
― Joshua Dysart, Imperium, Vol. 4: Stormbreak

tags: evolution, knowledge, purpose

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