Josh has been an artist and a fan of literature for his entire life. As a child he was surrounded by his father’s impressive library of great literary works, and he was THAT guy in your English class (or at least in his). Having caught the ULYSSES bug in a big way, he didn’t have to think twice about accepting artist Robert Berry’s invitation to work with him on his ambitious unexpurgated comix adaptation of the original 1922 Edition of Joyce’s masterpiece. He is thrilled to be playing the role of graphic/web designer, production artist, and hand-letterer on this phenomenal project and to be working with such a wonderful group of people.
The project is the first production of Throwaway Horse, LLC, which Josh has co-founded with with Berry, Philadelphia Joyce scholar Mike Barsanti, and intellectual property attorney Chad Rutkowski. In its first few months, it has garnered attention from from the likes of the New Yorker and Paste Magazine, bassist extraordinare Mike Watt, and comix artist Jessica Abel.
Ulysses “Seen” received international media attention in June of 2010, when Apple asked Throwaway Horse to make some controversial edits to two pages of the iPad app 1.0 version of the comic art before accepting it into the iTunes store. After two weeks of stories in the New York Times, Wired, MacWorld, The L.A. Times, on Slate.com, TIME.com, and the web sites of myriad other media outlets, Apple relented and asked for a resubmission of the unedited comic for immediate acceptance. Since then, web sites based in England, Ireland, France, Australia, Russia, and Colombia have given their compliments, and there’s much more to come.
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