Jonathan Wayshak

Who are you?

My name is Jonathan Wayshak and I‘m a comic book artist and illustrator. I do mostly editing. And what you see here is my personal project called MYOPIA, and basically what I do is I just sketch whatever I want off the top of my head, like this piece, and I put it together as a magazine.

How did you come to appreciate comic art?

Well, visually, I was interested in comics. Obviously, it was something that I had to learn. And I was really young, I was like 10 or 11. And luckily, my library had a lot of old turn of the century kind of comics. So I was exposed to that I fell in love with it very early on.

How would you describe your artistic process? Do you have any inspirations?

Right now? Nothing really. If there’s a process like this, [it] is to just be subconscious and draw what comes to mind. That’s what makes the exercise interesting. You know, it’s like true self expression. There’s nothing to it, no thought about selling. It’s all about just putting a line on paper and that expression.

What I’m doing can change how it goes. It could be like this, or some more simpler pieces. I kind of just do the spectrum, you know. The [H.R. Giger inspiration] is definitely there. I spent my childhood going to bookstores and just looking at the Giger books because at the time I couldn’t afford it

Do you have any big ongoing projects? Where can people find you?

I just finished a project and I can’t speak about, unfortunately, but that will be coming up sometime next year. I have also worked on some mainstream comic issues going back.

You can find me at jonathanwayshak.com. I’m also on Twitterand Instagram.