Joshua L.A. Jones
Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Wayward Raven Media, exploring consciousness through speculative fiction
Joshua Lee Andrew Jones doesn’t write comics—he builds doorways into questions most writers are afraid to ask. As Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Wayward Raven Media, Jones has spent over a decade crafting stories that probe the boundaries between memory and identity, choice and fate.
Born in winter (summer being the season of his discontent), Jones spent his early years as a professional bass player and stone stoop raconteur after college. Those wandering years—getting deliberately lost, observing the world from society’s edges—shaped a voice that’s both philosophical and accessible. The son of a preacher man and grandson of a Federal Court judge, he learned early that words carry weight, consequence, and power.
His literary roots run deep in independent publishing circles. Poetry and short stories have found homes in The Bitter Oleander Press, The Sylvan Echo, and Pens on Fire. The Cartier Street Review published a passage from his novel The Excess Road, establishing his reputation for prose that blurs genre boundaries.
At Wayward Raven Media, Jones collaborates with Mark C. Frankel on projects that venture where conventional superhero narratives fear to tread. Their shared vision produced Horsemen, a reimagining where cybernetic warriors defend free will across the cosmos against the forces of Fate and Destiny—stories where conquered civilizations literally lose their color when freedom is stripped away.
Jones’s own contribution to Lux Prismatica: Dreams of Recursive Reincarnation dives even deeper into consciousness and choice. Render follows a man without memory discovering the key to his past while a dark entity tests him. Dolly 23 offers something stranger still—one of the last humans battling solar-powered zombies to recover a lost sheep encoded with crucial data. Each story operates as a meditation wrapped in genre trappings.
The industry has taken notice. Wayward Raven Media, which Jones helps lead alongside Frankel and Alexander Sapountzis, has been called “one of the most successful small publishers” by Bleeding Cool’s Shawn Perry. At New York Comic-Con, their table has become a destination for readers seeking comics that challenge rather than simply entertain.
Whether he’s editing emerging voices, collaborating on cosmic mythology, or mining the strange corners of human consciousness, Joshua L.A. Jones proves that indie comics remain the frontier where genuine artistic risk still thrives.
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Sources: Wayward Raven Media, Smashwords Author Profile, AbeBooks, Kelci Crawford Reviews
