Joshua Dysart

Joshua Dysart (born June 21, 1971) is an American comic book writer known for dark themes, humanist horror and a fascination with the roots of violence. He co-created and wrote Violent Messiahs in 1997. The first eight issues were collected in the graphic novel, "Violent Messiahs Vol. I: Book of Job" in 2002. Since then he has done work for DC Comics, Vertigo Comics, Dark Horse Comics, Image Comics, IDW Publishing, Penny-Farthing Press, Virgin Comics and Random House Books.

The Work

He did a two-year stint as the monthly writer of "Swamp Thing". Writing issues #9–29 of the fourth series. His run featured the art of Enrique Breccia and Richard Corben, among others, on interriors and John Totleben and Eric Powell on covers. Dysart has also worked on "Conan" and "Hellboy" and is currently co-writing with Mike Mignola on a series of projects in the same setting as "Hellboy".

Other Media tie-ins

Dysart has become extensively involved in multi-media crossovers. He authored the one-shot "Van Helsing: Beneath the Rue Morgue" (an original story featuring the character from the Universal film) and penned "Skull & Bones: A Monster House Story", which was tied into the Sony animated children's "Monster House". He's also had his comic books included in the packaging for both the ' MMO computer game from Funcom and the "Hellboy" video game from Konami. He has written a two volume 270 page graphic novel for Avril Lavigne entitled "Make 5 Wishes" which was published by Del Rey Manga and Random House. That book has been printed in over seven languages as well as digitally distributed throughout Asia. His six-issue comic book mini-series adaptation of the Deepak Chopra novel ' was halted when the company, Virgin Comics, went under. [ [http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6590174.html Publishers Weekly: Virgin Comics Shut Down] ]

Works in Progress

It was announced at the 2007 Comic-Con International that Dysart is creating a revamp of "The Unknown Soldier" for Vertigo. The storyline remains a mystery, but Dysart spent a month in Northern Uganda for research. [ [http://www.comicsbulletin.com/vertigo/121772268614990.htm Comics Bulletin: Out of Africa: Joshua Dysart on Greendale and Unknown Soldier] ] At the same convention it was also announced that he would be creating a graphic novel based on Neil Young's 2003 album "Greendale" [ [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/theater/20sella.html New York Times: Morphing Neil Young for the Stage and Page] ] . No release date has been given on either project.

Collected Trades and Graphic Novels

* "Violent Messiahs: Book of Job"
* "Swamp Thing: Love in Vain"
* "Swamp Thing: Healing The Breach"
* "Captain Gravity and the Power of the Vril"
* "Make 5 Wishes vol. I & II"
* "Conan and the Midnight God"

References

External links

* [http://www.joshuadysart.com Official Joshua Dysart website]
* [http://www.comixology.com/podcasts/30/NYCC-Special-1-Joshua-Dysart Podcast interview with Dysart] from New York Comic Con 2008 at [http://www.comixology.com comiXology]
* [http://www.myspace.com/joshuadysart Dysart's MySpace site]