All That Really Matters is the Work
The medium may change, but Josh is always creating or producing in some capacity. Sometimes that means developing, writing and drawing an original property from scratch (like IglooBBQ). Other times it's illustrating character concepts and scripting a story to later be fleshed out by other artists (Mercy Sparx). Josh is largely known as the founder of the iconic Devil's Due Entertainment, now a fifteen year staple of indie comics, and walks the line between creator and executive. Creativity isn't limited to stories and illustration, which is why Blaylock also manages a nationwide tour for Devil's Due talent, sponsored live art parties to cross promote his brands, and is currently developing automated software to help serve both his own efforts and the comic industry at large.
IglooBBQ
A new slice-of-life comedy about "adulting" (albeit poorly), a comic creator's ongoing midlife semi-crises, and life in the big city vs. a possible simpler alternative.
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Mercy Sparx
The story of a Devil woman hunting rogue angels for Heaven. Living on Earth, disguised as a human, Mercy does "Heaven's dirty work" because no angel will suspect them to send the likes of her as a representative.
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Prose Nonfiction & Workshop Series: How to Self-Publish Comics: Not Just Create Them
A how-to staple in indie comics, now in its 4th edition. In print for over a decade.
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Charity sketch-off at Phoenix Comicon - 2016
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Illustration for Chicago's annual North Coast Music Festival 2017
Featuring Primus, Ween, Lil Dicky, Gucci Mane, Deadmau5, Damian Marley
Featuring Primus, Ween, Lil Dicky, Gucci Mane, Deadmau5, Damian Marley
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Managing Devil's Due Entertainment at one of a MILLION comic-cons... give or take.
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Northcoast Music Fest 2015, art curation
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The notorious satire Barack the Barbarian
Conceptualized by Josh Blaylock, and later written and brought to life by Larry Hama & Chris Schons, featuring our former POTUS as a lone wandering barbarian hero - Achieving global infamy in 2009, returned in 2017 with an all new short story written by (and cover illustration by) Josh Blaylock
Conceptualized by Josh Blaylock, and later written and brought to life by Larry Hama & Chris Schons, featuring our former POTUS as a lone wandering barbarian hero - Achieving global infamy in 2009, returned in 2017 with an all new short story written by (and cover illustration by) Josh Blaylock
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Hip Hop Meets Comics - Done Right
Hip Hop and Comics Collide in Yumiko: Curse of the Merch Girl. Josh and hip hop legend MURS teamed up for an original graphic novel / rap album hybrid project.
Hip Hop and Comics Collide in Yumiko: Curse of the Merch Girl. Josh and hip hop legend MURS teamed up for an original graphic novel / rap album hybrid project.
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Late 2000 - Securing the comicbook license to the then dormant G.I. Joe franchise, Blaylock's Devil's Due Publishing struck a deal with Image Comics to bring the Real American Heroes (and as a result everything else '80s) to comics, topping the charts with the first issue, debuting September 12, 2001 and continuing its run for seven years.
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Fan love for Blaylock's interpretation of the rowdy G.I. Joe villains "The Dreadnoks" led to his telling of the origin of their leader in the miniseries Dreanoks Declassified.
Josh with a cosplayer of his creation ZANYA, introduced in the Devil's Due G.I. Joe comic series as the daughter of the notorious Zartan. - 2011
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G.I. Joe's motion picture release saw Josh Blaylock's 2001 Snake-Eyes costume redesign brought to life, and a Storm Shadow mirroring the redesign for Devil's Due's later comic series, G.I. Joe: Reloaded.
Josh's most popular contribution to the G.I. Joe universe - KAMAKURA. Apprentice to fan favorite Snake-Eyes, Kamakura has been developed into over a dozen toy iterations and an animated series.
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Josh's early '00s punk rock indie series MISPLACED, teaming with Josh Howard's cult classic Dead @17, (the latter now in development for film/TV).
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Riding the success of the return of G.I. Joe, Josh also acquired the publishing rights to '80s favorite Voltron, later writing the untold origin of the giant mystical mech in Voltron: A Legend Forged. Voltron recently saw new life thanks to Netflix, and is back for a new generation.
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The Armenian Genocide and Operation Nemesis: A Story of Genocide and Revenge.
This TRUE STORY was written by Blaylock after being approached by producers David Krikorian and Thomas Dardarian, in time for the 100th anniversary of the massacres in 2015
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2015 - Operation Nemesis art incorporated into A System of a Down's "Wake the Souls" tour, exposing it to over 200,000 people.
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Art for Ruby Weapon / Sharkula album - Magic Shop - 2017
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