THE HORIZON EXPERIMENT collects five one-shots by some of the most celebrated names in comics, literature, TV, and film, providing pilots for new series featuring a Chinese James Bond, a Muslim exorcist, a reverse Indiana Jones, East African werewolves living in Miami, and an Evil Dead for black nerds. Everyone’s challenge was the same: Create a protagonist from a marginalized background in a popular genre where if their background changed, so did the entire story.
Pornsak Pichetshote started his career as a Thai-American rising star editor at DC's Vertigo imprint, his books being nominated for dozens of Eisner awards -- from the award-winning
Daytripper to critical darling
Sweet Tooth. He left Vertigo to become an executive in DC Entertainment's media team, where he started and oversaw DC's TV department. His critical and commercial horor book INFIDEL marked his first major work as a comics writer.
His current work with Image Comics is the Eisner- and Harvey-winning THE GOOD ASIAN, which he's currently adapting for television with James Wan's Atomic Monster.
Sabir Pirzada is a Pakistani writer and the creator/writer of the forthcoming graphic anthology
Dandelion. He is known for his work in TV writing on such hit shows as
Ms. Marvel, Moon Knight, Roswell New Mexico, and more. Pirzada also wrote
Ms. Marvel: The New Mutant and co-wrote the comic book miniseries
Ms. Marvel: Mutant Menace with Iman Vellani.
The "Octavia Butler of horror," Tananarive Due has been a leading voice in Black speculative fiction for more than 20 years. Her novel
The Living Blood won an American Book Award and she has also won an NAACP Image Award, a World Fantasy Award, and a British Fantasy Award. She also has had her writing included in multiple best-of-the-year anthologies. Having written for TV, she is also an executive producer on the groundbreaking documentary
Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. Her latest novel
The Reformatory has debuted to rave reviews, earning praise from such horror luminaries as Stephen King. With her husband/collaborator, Steven Barnes, she co-authored the graphic novel
The Keeper.
The Horizon Experiment: Moon Dogs, published by Image Comics, marks her first solo full-length writing in comics.
J. Holtham is an African-American playwright, TV writer, and Co-Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-winning
The Handsmaid's Tale. No stranger to critically beloved shows with passionate fan bases, he's also written on such TV series as Marvel's
Jessica Jones and
Cloak & Dagger, DC's
Supergirl, and
Pitch. He's recently expanded to writing for Marvel Comics, his work ranging from podcasts to Infinity Comics to the comics series
Bishop and
Night Thrasher.
The Horizon Experiment: Motherfu*kin' Monsters marks his first creator-owned comic.
Vita Ayala is a queer Afro-Puerto Rican writer out of New York City and one of the most in-demand writers in comics. An author of comic books and prose, they have worked on some of the most iconic franchises currently published, ranging from the
X-Men to
Wonder Woman to
James Bond to
Batman to
Static Shock to
Star Wars.
The Horizon Experiment: Finders//Keepers marks their long-awaited return to original, creator-owned work.
