Joshua Hale Fialkov (born August 19, 1979) is an American

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writer who primarily works in the horror genre. He is best known for '' Echoes'', '' The Bunker'', '' Elk's Run'', '' I, Vampire'', and the 2008 film '' Infected''. He has been nominated for multiple

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Early life

Fialkov was born in

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, on 19 August 1979, but raised in

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. He attended college at Emerson in Boston, Massachusetts, where he received a B.F.A. in writing and directing. After working in film in Boston, he moved to

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in 2001.

Career

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

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'', and returned for the fifth season in 2011 with ''The Test''.Truitt, Brian (3 October 2011)
'Pilot Season' Week 1: Fialkov unveils a mysterious 'Test'
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'' In late 2013, Fialkov started to write a new webcomic series ''The Bunker'' with artist Joe Infurnari, which received positive reactions and was picked up by

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to turn the series into a traditional printed format starting from February 2014. The publisher also picked up another pitch from Fialkov and a rookie artist Gabo, ''St. Jude and The Life After'', which debuted in July 2014 as ''The Life After'' and was also critically praised. Following the breakthrough success of two independent series, because of the resulting increased workflow, his own illness in late July, and possibly low sales of the series itself, Fialkov dropped out of ''Ultimate FF'', leaving the series cancelled midway through the current arc. 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''

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, based on the

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franchise.

Personal life

In an August 2014 question and answer thread on the website

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, Fialkov noted that he is an

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.Fialkov, Joshua Hale (8 August 2014
"I am Joshua Hale Fialkov, writer of THE BUNKER, THE LIFE AFTER, THE DEVILERS, PUNKS, ULTIMATE FF, I, VAMPIRE, and a bunch of other stuff. Now, ASK ME ANYTHING. (But not that."

Bibliography

References

External links

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www.thefialkov.com
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