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Joshua Barkman | |
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| Born | June 21, 1989 |
| Notable works | False Knees (webcomic) Life After Life (2024) Ew, It's Beautiful (2025) |
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Joshua Barkman (born June 21, 1989) is a Canadian cartoonist living in Montreal, Quebec. He is best known for his ongoing webcomic False Knees, a comic strip featuring North American birds. False Knees has been described as "a unique blend of scientific observation and existential humor".[1].
Barkman received the 2025 Eisner Award for Best Webcomic for his long-form story Life After Life (2024)[2].
Career
[edit]In 2011, while attending Concordia University, Barkman started drawing comics under the name False Knees for the student newspaper The Link[3]. The comics, composed of 4-panel strips, primarily featured people, often the author, in absurd situations. After graduating, he continued drawing and posting comics sporadically online. His comics started featuring more animals, owing to Barkman's desire to raise awareness of city wildlife[4].
In 2021, as part of an Inktober challenge, Barkman drew Hop! (2021), a month-long story featuring crows in Montréal, for which he drew one page a day. He later self-published the story into a book. Barkman would go on to draw and self-publish three more stories following the same page-a-day format: Spores (2022), Woven (2023), and Life After Life (2024).
Bibliography
[edit]- False Knees: An Illustrated Guide to Animal Behavior (2019) Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN ISBN 978-1449499723
- Hop! (2021) Self-published. ISBN 978-1738259106
- Spores (2022) Self-published. ISBN 978-1738259120
- Woven (2023) Self-published. ISBN 978-1738259113
- Life After Life (2024) Self-published. ISBN 978-1738259137
- Ew, It's Beautiful: A False Knees Comic Collection (2025) Andrews McMeel Publishing. ISBN 978-1524897642
Awards and Nominations
[edit]In 2021, False Knees won the Broken Frontier Award for Best Webcomic[5].
Barkman's work has garnered multiple Eisner nominations and wins. In 2023, Spores (2022) was nominated for the Eisner award for Best Webcomic[6]; in 2025, Life After Life (2024) won the Eisner award for Best Webcomic[2][7], and in 2026, Ew, It's Beautiful (2025) was nominated for the Eisner award for Best Humor Publication[8].
References
[edit]- ^ "The Philosophy of the Backyard: False Knees and the Sentience of the Urban Wilderness". Arts Help. 2026-01-14. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ a b Degg, D. D. (2025-07-26). "2025 Eisner Award Winners". The Daily Cartoonist. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ "Joshua Barkman". thelinknewspaper.ca. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ "Are These Quirky Comics Launching a New Generation of Bird Enthusiasts?". www.audubon.org. 2018-09-18. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ Oliver, Andy (2022-01-04). "Broken Frontier Awards 2021: Announcing the Winners". Broken Frontier. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ Codega, Linda (2023-05-17). "Here Are Your 2023 Eisner Awards Nominees". Gizmodo. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ Drudi, Cassandra (2025-07-28). "Boum, Mariko Tamaki, Joshua Barkman among 2025 Eisner winners". Quill and Quire - Canada's magazine of book news and reviews. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
- ^ Johnston, Rich (2026-05-14). "Eisner Awards 2026 Nominees Announced". bleedingcool.com. Retrieved 2026-05-14.
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