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The creators behind Image Comics' Horizon Experiment talk developing new BIPOC stories in comics
The Horizon Experiment from Image Comics led by Pornsak Pichetshote will feature 5 BIPOC creative teams spearheading new series for the publisher.
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If you've been keeping up with comic book news this year, you may have heard about the Horizon Experiment launching from Image Comics. Spearheaded by writer and former Vertigo editor Pornsak Pichetshote, the Horizon Experiment will incubate 5 new stories from writers of color from the comic book industry and beyond. At San Diego Comic-Con this year, Popverse's Ashley Victoria Robinson sat down with creators behind the Horizon Experiment to discuss everything that's going on with this exciting new chapter for Image Comics.
For Pichetshote, the Horizon Experiment is "taking my super friend writers of color from film, TV, prose, and comics and bringing them all together to write 5 one-shot pilots for new series." The 5 books from the Horizon Experiment are united by a simple premise that Pichetshote gave his fellow writers: "Give me a protagonist of color, from a marginalized background, and put them in a popular genre. And set up the story so that if you change any aspects about of the character's background, you have to change the entire story as well."
Artist Terry Dodson summed up the ethos of Pichetshote's prompt succinctly in describing the Horizon Experiment book The Manchurian: "What if there's a James Bond who's Chinese and spying on the US?"
"Every single one of these is awesome, and I've read them all," says Sabir Pirzada, writer of The Sacred Damned. "You don't want to miss out on any single one of them."
The one-shots in the Horizon Experiment vary across genre, from the spy thriller The Manchurian from Pichetshote and Dodson, to exorcist horror with The Sacred Damned from Pirzada and Michael Walsh, to East African werewolves in Miami in Tananarive Due and Kelsey Ramsay's Moon Dogs, to Evil Dead-style gore and demons in Motherfu*kin Monsters from J. Holtham and Michael Lee Harris, to a subversion of Indiana Jones with Vita Ayala and Skylar Patridge's Finders / Keepers.
Watch the video above to get all the details about this exciting new line of books from Image, and head to your local comic shop to find out more about how you can get a copy of each book.
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