Dysart 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 and was nominated for the Harvey Award, the Wizard Fan Award, and the Eisner's Russ Manning Award. The last four issues, a story arc entitled "Lamenting Pain" was not collected until 2009, when IDW Press decided to publish a trade which also featured never before seen developmental material and an unseen short story by Dysart.
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| - Dysart 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 and was nominated for the Harvey Award, the Wizard Fan Award, and the Eisner's Russ Manning Award. The last four issues, a story arc entitled "Lamenting Pain" was not collected until 2009, when IDW Press decided to publish a trade which also featured never before seen developmental material and an unseen short story by Dysart.
- Joshua Dysart (born June 21, 1971) is an Eisner Award nominated American comic book writer known for dark themes, humanist horror and a fascination with the roots of violence. He has done work for DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Penny-Farthing Press, Virgin Comics and Random House. Dysart 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 and was nominated for the Harvey Award, the Wizard Fan Award, and the Eisner's Russ Manning Award.
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| - Joshua Dysart at the 2012 Free Comic Book Day
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| - Dysart 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 and was nominated for the Harvey Award, the Wizard Fan Award, and the Eisner's Russ Manning Award. The last four issues, a story arc entitled "Lamenting Pain" was not collected until 2009, when IDW Press decided to publish a trade which also featured never before seen developmental material and an unseen short story by Dysart. More work followed, including 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 interiors and John Totleben and Eric Powell on covers. Dysart has also worked on Conan and Hellboy and has co-written with Mike Mignola on a series of projects in the same setting as Hellboy. From 2008 to 2010 he wrote a revamp of The Unknown Soldier for Vertigo. The storyline took place in Acholiland Uganda in 2002 during the war between the Lord's Resistance Army and Ugandan People's Defence Force. Dysart spent a month in Northern Uganda for research. Issue #1 of Unknown Soldier was released in October 2008. The book was a monthly. It was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2009. and won a Glyph Comics Awards for Best cover. In 2010 Unknown Soldier won the Glyph for STORY OF THE YEAR. Unknown Soldier was featured on the front page of the art section of the New York Times and Dysart was interviewed by the BBC, who also published some of his research photos on their website. In December 2009 Dysart gave an exhaustive interview to WORLD VISION REPORT about his experiences in the conflict zone and attempts to adapt them into a mainstream, commercial work. In June 2010, Vertigo Comics published Dysart's graphic novel based on Neil Young's 2003 album Greendale. Cliff Chiang drew the book. It spent two-weeks at #3 on the New York Times Graphic Novel Best-Seller list.
- Joshua Dysart (born June 21, 1971) is an Eisner Award nominated American comic book writer known for dark themes, humanist horror and a fascination with the roots of violence. He has done work for DC, Vertigo, Dark Horse, Image, IDW, Penny-Farthing Press, Virgin Comics and Random House. Dysart 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 and was nominated for the Harvey Award, the Wizard Fan Award, and the Eisner's Russ Manning Award. More work steadily followed, including 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 interiors and John Totleben and Eric Powell on covers. Dysart has also worked on Conan. He is currently writing a revamp of The Unknown Soldier for Vertigo. The series was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best New Series in 2009. At the 2007 Comic-Con International: San Diego it was announced that he would be creating a graphic novel based on Neil Young's 2003 album Greendale. Cliff Chiang is currently drawing the book which is expected to drop sometime in mid-2010.
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