March 2019 LIVE Magazine

‘I haven’t worked in comics for a very long
time, but I worked in comics for a while,
not as an artist. I did colouring for a few
North American and some Australian comics
actually, when I was first starting out, and
then anime took off for me and I didn’t need
to dabble in both anymore”.
“I would much rather have a director
directing me as opposed to directing
myself… I’m probably going to misquote this
horribly but one of my best friends when I
first became a voice actor, Chris Ayers (the
voice of Freeza in Dragon Ball), used to say
‘If you have an actor directing themselves
then you have an idiot for an actor and a
Working a dual career is hard for anyone,
so Josh had to decide whether to devote his
career to comics or anime. I’m pretty sure
that his fans are convinced that he made the
right decision, as is the man himself:
“Acting was what I wanted to do anyway, so
fool for a director’… I have had to direct
myself before but it wasn’t as comfortable
as I always second guess and third guess,
twelfth guess every take. It’s just much more
streamlined if I have another creative voice
directing me when I’m in the booth”.
the choice was pretty much made for me”.
While his career has been a huge success,
Josh is looking to sink his teeth into
something new and exciting.
A “Jack of all trades”, Josh blames his active
mind on Hyper ADD and claims that he
cannot just stick to one thing. As a child
he taught himself to use the digital tools
“I do want to do more that is my artwork
and something that I create as opposed to
spending all of my creative energy doing
characters and stories for other people. So
I’m getting back into comics right now”.
that he could use to express his artistic
creativity. Learning to edit photos, audio
and film allowed him to become involved in
the world of entertainment years before his
career took him there.
I queried whether he would prefer to direct
the scripts that he writes, giving himself full
creative control over his work. With a serious
“I wanted do do it all, and it pays off, and
yeah, I’m doing it all!”
expression Josh explains why he doesn’t feel
this is a good idea:
By Paul Monopoli