Joshua Hale Fialkov is an American

United States

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 comic book

Comic book

A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...

 writer who primarily works in the horror genre. He is best known for Echoes

Echoes (comics)

Echoes is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and drawn by Rahsan Ekedal. Published by Top Cow Productions, it tells the story of Brian Cohn, a schizophrenic who learns his father may have been a serial killer...

, Elk's Run

Elk's Run

Elk's Run is a comic book limited series created by writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, artist Noel Tuazon, and colorist Scott A. Keating. It was published in book form on March 27, 2007 by Villard...

, I, Vampire, and the 2008

2008 in film

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 film Infected. He has been nominated for multiple Harvey Awards.

Background

Fialkov was born in Sacramento, CA on 19 August 1979, but raised in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended college at Emerson

Emerson College

Emerson College is a private coeducational university located in Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1880 by Charles Wesley Emerson as a "school of oratory," Emerson is "the only comprehensive college or university in America dedicated exclusively to communication and the arts in a liberal arts...

 in Boston, MA where he received a B.F.A. in writing and directing. After working in film in Boston, he moved to Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

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 in 2001.

In 2007, he was a winner in the first Pilot Season comics competition with Cyblade

Cyblade

Cyblade is the name of a fictional character from Top Cow Productions. She is a member of Cyberforce.-Publication history:After her initial appearances in other comics, Cyblade was one of two properties to win the first Pilot Season in 2007, meaning Cyblade would appear in her own eponymous...

, and returned for the fifth season in 2011 with The Test.

Outside the comics realm, in 2008, his success in comics led to his selection as lead writer and executive producer for the LG15: The Resistance

LG15: The Resistance

LG15: The Resistance was a web television series produced by EQAL that took place within the LG15 Universe. The series was first announced on July 4, 2008 via the official behind-the-scenes LG15 blog, Inside...

web series

Web series

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, based on the lonelygirl15

Lonelygirl15

lonelygirl15 was an interactive web-based video series which began in June 2006 and ran through to August 1, 2008. Developed under the working title The Children of Anchor Cove, the show gained worldwide media attention when it was outed as fictional in September 2006.-Overview:lonelygirl15...

 franchise.

Career

Title	Publisher	Collaborators	Award nominations
Elk's Run Elk's Run Elk's Run is a comic book limited series created by writer Joshua Hale Fialkov, artist Noel Tuazon, and colorist Scott A. Keating. It was published in book form on March 27, 2007 by Villard...	Villard Villard -Places:France* Villard, Creuse* Villard, Haute-Savoie* Villard-Bonnot, in the Isère département* Villard-de-Lans, in the Isère département* Villard-d'Héry, in the Savoie département* Villard-Léger, in the Savoie département...  - March 27, 2007	Noel Tuazon (artist) Scott Keating (colorist)	Best Writer, Best Artist, Best Letterer, Best Cover Artist, Best New Talent, Best Continuing or Limited Series, and Best Single Issue or Story (2006 Harvey Awards)
TumorMayes, Troy (26 April 2011). Graphic Novel Review: Tumor by Joshua Hale Fialkov, Seattle Post-Intelligencer Seattle Post-Intelligencer The Seattle Post-Intelligencer is an online newspaper and former print newspaper covering Seattle, Washington, United States, and the surrounding metropolitan area...	Archaia - Oct 7, 2009	Noel Tuazon	Eisner Award Eisner Award The Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, commonly shortened to the Eisner Awards, and sometimes referred to as the Oscar Awards of the Comics Industry, are prizes given for creative achievement in American comic books. The Eisner Awards were first conferred in 1988, created in response to the...
Echoes Echoes (comics) Echoes is a five-issue comic book limited series written by Joshua Hale Fialkov and drawn by Rahsan Ekedal. Published by Top Cow Productions, it tells the story of Brian Cohn, a schizophrenic who learns his father may have been a serial killer...	Top Cow - Dec 2010	Rahsan Ekedal	Best New Series (Harvey Award)
I, Vampire	DC Comics DC Comics DC Comics, Inc. is one of the largest and most successful companies operating in the market for American comic books and related media. It is the publishing unit of DC Entertainment a company of Warner Bros. Entertainment, which itself is owned by Time Warner...  - Sep 2011-present	Andrea Sorrentino
Doctor Who Doctor Who Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...	IDW Publishing IDW Publishing IDW Publishing, also known as Idea + Design Works, LLC and IDW, is an American publisher of comic books and comic strip collections. The company was founded in 1999 and has been awarded the title "Publisher of the Year Under 5% Market Share" for the years 2004, 2005 and 2006 by Diamond Comic...  - Jan-Apr 2012	Matthew Dow Smith Matthew Dow Smith Matthew Dow Smith is an American comic book artist.- Bibliography :* Astronauts in Trouble: Live From the Moon #1 and #2* The Book of Fate #11* Day of Judgment #1-5...