Purveyor of sheer awesomeness.
Joshua Hale Fialkov is the Harvey, Eisner, and Emmy Award nominated writer of graphic novels, animation, video games, film, and television, including:
THE LIFE AFTER, THE BUNKER, PUNKS, ELK'S RUN, TUMOR, ECHOES, KING, PACIFIC RIM, THE ULTIMATES, I, VAMPIRE, and JEFF STEINBERG CHAMPION OF EARTH. He's also written television including MAX’s YOUNG JUSTICE, NBC's CHICAGO MED and NETFLIX’s AVATAR: THE LAST AIRBENDER.
I've had a cold for the better part of two weeks. It got progressively worse and worse, starting as a little allergy type thing, to right now where I can hardly breathe. So, yeah, forgive the not posting. I don't want to get snot on my computer.
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America Jr. :: Tiny U.S. Town Becomes Tiny Nation My good buddy (and Western Tales of Terror contributor) Todd Livingston is launching a new webcomic. It's live at midnight tonight, so go and read it. It's a blast.
Joshua Hale Fialkov » Music Just added a full page with a ton of tracks, a lot of stuff from the old days, and quick bios on each of my old projects. Click, and enjoy.
Take On Me a-Ha classic butchered by me. I bought some fun little percussion things, so that side is greatly improved.
Ooh La La Productions getting a bit better. This one was built from a scratch track into a fully seperated 12 or 13 track recording. The biggest challenge with Audacity is that there's just not the fine controls of Pro Tools in terms of structure and mixing.
Anyways, here's your heaping dose of Rod Stewart and The Faces for the weekend. Enjoy.
Gigantic by The Pixies
Hmm. Couldn't quite get the phaser effect on the whistle right, but, I'm zonked and want to lay down and watch some TV.
This is for Neenie, by the way.
JOSHUA HALE FIALKOV ON ELK'S RUN MOVE TO VILLARD/RANDOM HOUSE - NEWSARAMA Shiny little interview with me where I talk about what went wrong and what went wrong with Elk's Run.
Fragile Prophets by Jeff Davison and Stephen Buell
I'm an asshole. Stephen gave me a copy of the trade of Fragile Prophets months ago, and I keep meaning to write about it, but I've been so fucking swamped, I haven't had time to do it.
Well, it's coming out in the next few weeks (or maybe came out this week), and I just wanted to make sure everybody checks it out. I know that I'm notorious for saying that every book is my favorite book of the year, but, this time, I mean it.
The story of an autistic boy who can see the future and his brother who may or may not be exploiting him (even the brother doesn't know), it plays like a mix between Rain Man where Dustin Hoffman is an 8 year old Cassandra. The story's delicately told and intricately woven, the art is peculiar in a way that really makes you feel the unease of the world these characters live in. From beat to beat, it's completely engrossing, and when you get to the twist ending, we've had such a blast that you just don't want it to end.
Really an excellent piece of work from the very underappreciated guys at Lost in the Dark Press. Go click the link above and order the fucking thing, or I'll smash you.
Do You Really Want to Hurt Me? Man, I'm just in full on mopey 80's mode this week. Culture Club song, although it's probably slightly closer to the Violent Femmes version, cause those are the lyrics I know.
Lucky Ball and Chain Well, that's my first request in a long time. Good buddy Saul Colt asked for some They Might Be Giants, and well... that's what I came up with.
Enjoy.
Boys Don't Cry (Some folk say the link isn't working, so, you can cut and past this is it doesn't: http://www.poorlydrawnanimals.com/blog/music/Boys%20Dont%20Cry.mp3 )
So, since the former missus left call it personal depression or whatever, but I've gotten back into the Cure. Trust me, my 14 year old self would kick the shit out of the current me for admitting that in public. Anyways, this is also a little rough shod demo, of Boys Don't Cry.
Hey Hey Little Bandit This is the first song I've written in... shit... six years. Recording's decent enough, but it's not got many frills (and I fuck up in the final verse, but you won't notice unless I say something. Oops.) It's sort of an Elvis-y ditty, it's far from my best song writing, but, y'know, I'm pretty flabby in that department right now. Got one more song I'm outputting right now.
All the money does is buy the bed. Getting out of it is the problem. - Shane Black
Villard Grabs Elk's Run; More Comics Coming - 6/13/2006 - Publishers Weekly
Random House has the graphic novel bug again and Del Rey Manga's Dallas Middaugh has a hand in it. Villard, a Random House general publishing imprint, will publish a complete edition of Joshua Hale Fialkov and Noel Tuazon's much praised suspense comic Elk's Run in 2007. The book was acquired by Middaugh and comes on the heels of Del Rey's plans to publish a non-manga graphic novel by bestselling Del Rey fantasy author Terry Brooks. Expect to see more graphic literature published out of Villard in the coming year, including moving Harvey Pekar's next book from Ballantine to Villard according to Del Rey, v-p and deputy publisher, Scott Shannon.
It's nice to sit down after a long day of work and watch a show that's considerably more obscene than all of my comics combined.