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Joshua Dysart

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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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	Unknown Soldier, Vol. 1: Haunted House by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Alberto Ponticelli (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 1,480 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 — 1,365 ratings — published 2013 — 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
	Harbinger, Vol. 2: Renegades by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Philippe Briones (Illustrator), Barry Kitson (Illustrator) 4.03 avg rating — 825 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 — 610 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) 4.07 avg rating — 415 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
	Greendale by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author), Cliff Chiang (Illustrator) 3.27 avg rating — 487 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) 3.96 avg rating — 396 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. 4: Perfect Day by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Barry Kitson (Artist), Clayton Henry (Artist) 3.82 avg rating — 410 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
	Harbinger, Vol. 5: Death of a Renegade by Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (Writer), Clayton Crain (Artist), Khari Evans (Artist) 4.07 avg rating — 363 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) 3.68 avg rating — 321 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 — 5,007 ratings

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

Aleberto Ponticelli (Illustrator),

Rick Veitch (Illustrator)

3.98 avg rating — 2,388 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)

3.74 avg rating — 853 ratings

Goodnight Paradise (4 books)
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Joshua Dysart (Goodreads Author) (writer),

Alberto Ponticelli (artist),

Giulia Brusco (colorist),

Steve Wands (letterer),

Sebastian Girner (editor)

3.94 avg rating — 415 ratings

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

Enrique Breccia (Illustrator),

Ron Wimberly (Illustrator),

Richard Corben (Illustrator)

3.14 avg rating — 427 ratings

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Really very sublime and gentle, even as it confronts Japanese patriarchy and the struggles of a housewife searching for her voice and individual identity. It's so full of soft poetics and every day rhythms. A very nice, very reflective read. A semina ...more
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Did Virginia Woolf just identify a neurodivergent female character in 1918? I mean, she, at the very least uses the two-women motif to compare and contrast a "right brain" personality with a "left brain" one. And that feels incredibly modern. This wa ...more
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I like this. It was really lovely. It can at times feel a little like McCarthy-lite, but it's got a great voice, a wonderful sense of language and a sprawling sense of place and time. A really good western with a lot of heart and filled with interest ...more
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It was alright. I little too bro-y and self-aware for my tastes. I liked the conservative cop that Doc has an unlikely friendship with. Mostly because I pictured him as Nick Offerman and that made me laugh. Meh.
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Wow, you know, I really loved Octavia E. Butler when I was a kid, but this is the second book of hers I've re-read as an adult so far, and neither one remotely held the same power over me. Here, in this, it's really the spirituality that felt tedious ...more
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Really loved this. Considering where the story goes this could've been an overly constructed, emotionally manipulative drama. But it's not. It achieves its ends and earns its revelations. Kaveh Akbar writes like he's on fire, and there's so much grea ...more
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Interesting. I did prefer the first story to the others, but I was talking with a Korean friend of mine and she unpacked a lot of it for me from her cultural viewpoint and her spirited defense did make me like the novel more. There's the sense of a w ...more
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“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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