Joshua Hale Fialkov

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.

First “Vacation” in Years

September 21, 2005  /  Joshua Fialkov

So, I'm finally taking a vacation. Sort of. My folks are moving from Pittsburgh, PA to Des Moines, IA, and I'm heading out to help them pack. While there, it looks like I'm getting to do two comic related adventures. 1) SPX - Bethesda, MD. We were planning on just having J-Rod cover the show on his own, but, it looks like I might actually make it now. Fun will be had by all!

2) Phantom of the Attic - Pittsburgh, PA. I'm in the process of figuring out a time for a couple hours of 'meet and greet' at the store I shopped at as a child. The sheer surrealness of it all is an adventure on it's own.

So, if you're in Pittsburgh, keep watching here, and I'll update whatever other 'events' I can score while there.

So, aside from that, see y'all in ten days.

* That's by far the goofiest picture of Pittsburgh I've ever seen. I mean, c'mon, a fuckin' rainbow over the baseball stadium. So fucking stupid.

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CBR on Elk’s Run #4

September 20, 2005  /  Joshua Fialkov

CATCHING UP ON "ELK'S RUN" WITH JOSHUA FIALKOVby Jonah Weiland, Executive Producer

The journey Joshua Hale Fialkov has taken in creating and self-publishing the title "Elk's Run" has been an interesting one. It's not been an easy journey, as anyone who's ever self-published a comic book could tell you. Despite high praise from those inside the industry like writer Brian Bendis as well as receiving an "A" in an "Entertainment Weekly" review, "Elk's Run" had a hard time finding an audience in an industry dominated by DC & Marvel special events. Fialkov persevered, though, and ultimately there's good news for "Elk's Run" readers as it's been picked up by Speakeasy Comics, which should provide the book better support and a higher profile. CBR News sat down with Fialkov to reintroduce readers to the book, to find out what the future has in store for "Elk's Run," and to learn a little about another project he's working on, Boom! Studios' "Fused Tales."

Click Here for the Interview

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Elk’s Run #6

September 18, 2005  /  Joshua Fialkov

is about three pages from completion of the first draft. It's scary writing it because it literally is the 'point of no returns' story wise. Seven and Eight are both the third act, and loaded up with action, so this really is my final chance to get to do 90% character/10% action. It's a strange issue. There's even a wet dream in it.

Although, I have a feeling J-Rod's gonna make me cut it.

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Initiatives

September 16, 2005  /  Joshua Fialkov

So, today, while doing a late night transcribing project, I got to listen to a bunch of people talk about a ballot initiative that Schwarzenegger was trying to get on the books. It’s interesting for a couple of reasons. First of all, the people who were talking were ‘regular joes’ in the affected unions, who had been picked to speak. There were three different sets on the tapes, the first who were clearly prepped with what to say, another who was knowledgable and obviously knew what he was talking about, and another group who were just plain outraged.

What stuck out the most was the first group. The interviewer kept trying to get them to explain WHY they felt that the measure was a bad thing, and they kept repeating, almost to the point of sounding like zombies, the same talking point over and over again. They sincerely seemed to not know what else to say. “It would be bad for us,” was about the most they could get out.

So, here I sit, an obnoxiously vocal liberal who, admittedly knows nothing about this ballot measure (California politics frighten me, considering who we elected to Governor), but, you listen to the knowledgable guy, and fuck yeah, this is something I’d get behind. Then you listen to the outraged guys and I’m more energized. If these regular joes are so upset it’s got to be something big! Then you get to the zombies. And you realize that all the rest were more or less spouting the same bullshit, they were just better improvisers.

Listen, I know that our governor is a sock puppet for the President and his administration, and I'm usually predisposed to trust a union over a government (although, I've seen some crappy behavior from unions in my day, too...). But, hearing essentially them drone the equivalent of the South Park "They took our jooooobs," makes me question the reliability of the information.

Sorry. 6 hours of listening to a shitty cassette tape of people repeat themselves has driven me at least slightly mad.

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