After graduating from college, he spent time in New York City but went back home to Shreveport where he got a job as an artist in residence at Centenary College. His varied experiences in film and painting would be handy in his storytelling career as he worked in computer-generated imagery, picture books, movies, television, and chapter books. He quit art classes and majored in film and by 1981, he graduated with a bachelor’s in fine art in film and painting. Things turned sour for William Joyce when he enrolled in art classes at university as his teachers wanted to make him paint in an unfamiliar style. Through it all, his parents were very supportive of his artistic endeavors and enrolled him in art classes and ultimately at Southern Methodist University to study art.
As a high schooler, Joyce worked for the Shreveport’s Byrd High School paper drawing cartoons. His classmates loved the story and it earned him a visit to the headmaster’s office where he was feted. It told the story of a boy that was struck by a meteorite, which gave him super mathematical powers. As a fourth-grader, he wrote his first piece a graphic picture book titled “Billy’s Booger” that he entered in a school contest. By the time he was in elementary school, he was making his own drawings. Right from when he was a preschooler, he showed an interest in creative pursuits as he voraciously consumed Maurice Sendak’s works. He was born to an eclectic family of actors, artists, geologists, bongo players, opera singers, and photographers and legend had it that he came out of the womb with a pen in his hand. Joyce was born in 1957 Shreveport to a family of friendly Southern screwballs.
Morris Lessmore” was the winner of the Academy Award in 2012. He came to the attention of literary buffs when his animated short film “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. William Joyce is a children’s book author from Shreveport.
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