Joachim Doujak

JoJo (Joachim Doujak) was born in 1992 in Austria. He started drawing when he was 3 years old, using watercolors and colored pencils. His favorite tool, however, were ballpoint pens and most surviving drawings from that time (kilos upon kilos of drawings, stored in one of JoJo’s mother’s closets were created with them. The themes were what you would expect from a small boy: cars, pirates, animals, but most of all dinosaurs from his grandfather’s dinosaur encyclopedia. Later on, JoJo discovered Pokémon and videogames and turned to drawing his own fantasy creatures.

After passing the Matura, JoJo went on to study Comic and Graphic Design in the span of 6 years, trying to make his passion his job – he picked up the nickname JoJo here, as his art school colleagues started shortening his name and it stuck. He is a permanent member of the exhibition “Kunst zu Recht” (usually with short comics) and participated in multiple issues of the comic anthology Murmel Comics while making a modest living as a freelance illustrator and backoffice worker.

He still enjoys drawing with colored pencils and ballpoint pens to this day – any of his notebooks is its own exhibition – but JoJo primarily illustrates digitally now, using basic drawing tablets and a two-monitor setup to easily look up references. He still loves drawing fantasy creatures of all kinds but the stories he wants to tell became much more human as time passed.