Posac Picheshot (Excellent Asian, pagan) has long admired Terry Dodson (Spider-Man/Black Cat: The evil that men do, Uncanny X-Men). So when Picheshot had the opportunity, he recruited Dodson to join him in his new creative venture. Friendship blossoms, and with it comes mutual respect and appreciation. All of this was on full display when the two sat down to talk about their creative collaboration in one shot, Horizon Experiment: Manchurian.
horizon experiment is a series of five single shots featuring protagonists from marginalized backgrounds who are thrown into a variety of genres, culminating in a surprising ending. Pichet Short and Dodson Manchurian is the first book in the series and will feature a Bond-esque Chinese super spy.
Pichetshote co-edited this single-camera series with renowned writers Expired in Antananarivo (guardian), Sabir Award (Moon Knight, ms marvel), J. Holsom and Vita Ayala (X-Men, wonder woman). Image comics will be released soon Manchurian September 25th, other monthly events.
Nancy Powell: How did you come up with this?
Borsac Picheshot: I have a book called Excellent Asian That came out. It did well, won some awards, and sold well. One of the things I hear a lot is people say ‘Wow, I love something like this. I wish there were more stuff like this, looking at something from a specific perspective and seeing how it changes the genre and makes the genre different. I’d like to see that too. So, then I reached out to a couple of great writers that I knew who were really talented and trying to break into comics. They’ve since branched out into Marvel and DC, but they weren’t into comics at the time.
I was like, hey, this is a crazy idea. I wanted to do these stories that basically feature protagonists of color from specific backgrounds and place them in popular genres. Change the character’s background and the entire story changes. Are you interested in doing this? They were like, absolutely! But the thing is, I can’t commit to a four-issue miniseries or something like that. But we realized that between all of us, we could do a pilot, we could do a shot. And then, based on this question from Image, it’s going to give us an advance on two riders that I really want, who can’t necessarily afford it all themselves.
And, one shot is like the history of a comic. I call it the Showcase Series because I just thought it would have been cool to live in the DC Showcase era and subscribe to comics, when the comics literally came to your door and you received a new issue every month. for several months flash Other months are Jason’s mission. You don’t know what you’re going to get. You know, that’s just a whole set, maybe there’s more. I just love that traditional atmosphere. This feels like a responsible way to release risk.
Powell: How was your collaboration with Choi? [Dodson] Coming? What is the process?
Pichetshot: Well, I think that’s interesting. I’ve said it several times, but when I had this idea, I was very much like, ‘Well, what we really need is a Terry Dodson type,’ and my editor Will said, ‘Do we consider Ever asked Terry Dodson? I just didn’t expect Terry to say yes. I thought he had done a lot of great things.
So, even if you say yes, I’m still waiting for you to quit. I’m waiting for you to tell me I’m too busy to do this. I know, I know. You are painting everything. I get it. I got it. Then I placed all the scripts the way you normally would. Terry took over from there and worked his magic.
Terry Dodson: We actually met two years ago at the Eisner Hotel in San Diego. We are at the same table. We have never met. So, from there, we met and not long after, the idea came about.
It’s always great to meet someone for the first time and see from that perspective that you’re not just being recommended a job. And then you work in another way, which I think is actually a very healthy way. It’s not a way to create a job, but it’s really nice to have a personal relationship. You take over a job from someone you admire, respect or know, and this can have a big impact on how you’re treated. When I heard about the proposal and how it would be developed and promoted, I immediately said yes.
I’m someone who works as a freelance artist, so I understand the importance of marketing yourself and marketing your work because there are things you want to do but you can’t always get paid or get support. So, the idea of doing this separate experiment is that everyone supports each other and promotes each other, because we live in a world of likes and affection, and if you don’t get that attention, how do you market it? You can be the best at what you do, but if others don’t know how are you going to sell it to them? The idea is a solid one. And then the way they promoted it was very solid. It’s great because my whole career I’ve had to be my own boss and promote what I do because no one else is going to do it for me.
Picheshot: One of the great things about working with Terry is that I’ve been a fan of Terry for a long time. So, I know it’s hard. I couldn’t be more grateful to work and talk with Terry. There’s a business in being Terry Dodson, and let him tell me about the business of being Terry Dodson, how to choose projects and how to do this, how to do that – all of that It’s all about allowing you to do all of these things – it’s really fun and eye-opening to get that perspective into the whole horizon experiment We are all trying to lift each other up. I think this is indeed what I want. The best version is that we can all create unique books here, but this is a growing trend; our voices don’t cancel each other out. If anything, they reinforce each other.
Powell: Did it Is most of your work done in person, via email or over the phone?
Dodson: We talked in San Diego last year and in New York in October, and during that time I think you wrote most of the script. It was nice because we actually met and talked in person, which is rare.
Picheshot: It’s true.
Dodson: We went through a game and gave parts of it in person between San Diego and New York, you wrote about it, and then in New York we talked about it again. It’s all because I’m so busy that I put things off. Pornsak gave me time to do some work and then see where we were going, and enough time to research and write when the time came.
Powell: What are the challenges of shooting a single shot versus shooting a longer series?
Dodson: There is no difference in art. The first issue of anything I do, whether it’s one issue or twelve issues, that first issue lasts forever. The only downside is if I only get one issue and I spend all my time on one issue. But that’s another story entirely. But every problem I do, no matter what I do, it’s the same process. My first issues always take a long time because I’m developing the world. The second one goes faster. The third, fourth or fifth period is all accelerating because I’ve done all the hard work in the first period.
Picheshot: It’s funny because I remember when we started this process, that’s exactly what he said. It’s all about getting everything together. When the pages come in, they’re all gorgeous, but gosh, when will this be done? Then it reached a point where it was like being shot from a cannon. After that, the pages kept coming.
Dodson: It’s going according to plan.
Picheshot: So, that’s really fascinating in my mind. In fact, we had 26 pages for each shot to make it all happen. So the key is to integrate the space and make sure everything works the way it needs to.
Powell: Do you think this is going to be a trend in the future?
Pichetshot: I would love it. I would be happy if we had more opportunities on this and if there were any trends that came out of this. Comics used to be like this. We discussed this in Washington. We used to have eight pages to fill out by 6pm, so let’s figure something out over lunch. That lunch happened to be about calypso. complete! Eight pages about Kalypso. Cut to 40 years later, when a senior executive hopes to turn “Kalypso” into a four-quadrant movie, a series of movies. We’ve tried a lot more in comics. So what I love most about these lenses is that there are two or three lenses in each series. I loved sampling this collection. I just like the first question in general.
