User:Hexatekin/sandbox/Jonathan Wayshak

Jonathan Wayshak (WAY$HAK) is an American cartoonist, illustrator, and fine artist. Wayshak is known for his pen and ink work in a variety of artistic disciplines, including fantasy, comics, editorial illustration, fine art, storyboarding, and advertising. Wayshak's work is characterized by surreal and absurdist visual depictions of characters and scenes in comics.

Wayshak was born in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Wayshak started working in web design in 1996. In 2000, he worked in illustration, while showing art in a number of galleries in San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York City.
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He has illustrated comics and covers for Image Comics, Dark Horse Comics, DC Comics, and self-published multiple comics
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Comics

 * Ferryman, Vol. 1, Wildstorm/DC Comics 2008
 * Pushing Daisies, Wildstorm/DC Comics, 2009 [Cancelled series]
 * Call of Duty: Zombies, Dark Horse Comics, 2016
 * Devoultion, Dynamite Comics, 2016
 * Halo: Tales from Slipspace, Dark Horse Comics, 2016
 * Halo: Atriox, Dark Horse Comics, 2017
 * Scumbag, Issue #9 - Image Comics, 2021
 * Florence and Normandie, Zombie Love Productions, 2023

Art Books

 * In collection:Hi-Fructose Collected Edition Volume 2: Under-the-Counter Culture, Last Gasp, 2010
 * Tome: Vol I 2013
 * Zerofriends Art Book 2014
 * Myopia Vol 1-IV: 2016-2023

Self-Published Comics

 * Analgesia Vol I-III
 * Gem
 * Town O’ Crazies
 * Toner
 * Blank
 * Disintegration
 * Myopia

Illustration

 * Maybird (Cover art Books I-III)
 * Dragon Magazine
 * Wizards of the Coast
 * Dungeon Magazine
 * High Society Magazine
 * Upper Deck
 * Xbox Magazine

Exhibitions

 * 111 Minna Street Gallery
 * Juice Design
 * Varnish Fine Art
 * Cotton Candy Machine
 * Thinkspace
 * Gallery Nucleus
 * Gallery 1988