Pornsak Pichetshote

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Pornsak Pichetshote
BornPornsak Pichetshote
Area(s)Writer, Editor
Notable works
Infidel, The Good Asian, Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives, Man's Best

Pornsak Pichetshote is a Thai-American television and comics writer, editor, director, and producer who has worked for Vertigo, DC Comics, Marvel Comics, and independent comics. He has been nominated for Eisner and Harvey Awards.

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Career

Pichetshote started working in comics as an editor at Vertigo Comics, an imprint of DC, [1] where he worked on books like Daytripper , The Unwritten , Sweet Tooth , The Unknown Soldier , and Swamp Thing . [2] During his time working at DC, he slowly became the head of DC's TV division and helped Geoff Johns spearhead what became known as the Arrowverse. Per Pichetshote: "All of a sudden, I was recruited because I knew stuff about the comic side. And then I would end up becoming part of that think tank and I would slowly end up being sort of DC Comics’ head of television. I would help develop The Arrowverse on The CW and a bunch of other shows. And that happened for a while." [3]

In 2012, he directed a nine-minute short film called A Conversation About Cheating With My Time Travelling Future Self which was an official selection at the 9th annual International Horror & Sci-Fi Film Festival in Phoenix in 2013. [4] [5]

In 2018, he published his first comic, Infidel, with artist Aaron Campbell at Image Comics. The book is a haunted house story, but set in a modern run-down apartment building and the main character is a Muslim woman dealing with racism and Islamaphobia. [6] The book was optioned by TriStar Pictures after two issues. [7] After that, he was a writer on the second seasons of Marvel's Cloak & Dagger , Two Sentence Horror Stories , and Light as a Feather . [2]

In 2021, he wrote The Good Asian, about Chinese-American detective Edison Hark on the streets of 1936 Chinatown. [8] With art by Alexandre Tefenkgi, the book is a noir set during a period of extreme xenophobia and racism. [9] It would go on to win the 2022 Eisner Award for Best Limited Series and the 2022 Harvey Award for Book of the Year. [10] [11]

In 2023, he wrote The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives , a six-issue limited series with artist Jeff Stokely. [12] The next year, he teamed up with artist Jesse Lonergan to put out Man's Best, a five-issue series through Boom! Studios about a group of emotional support pets in space who have to save their owners. [13] [14] The book was listed by Parade as one of the best books of December 2024. [15]

In 2024, he launched The Horizon Experiment with Image Comics, a series of five one-shots written by writers of color and starring protagonists from marginalized backgrounds. The first one-shot, The Manchurian, was written by Pichetshote with art by Terry Dodson and was about a "Chinese James Bond." Other writers for the project include Sabir Pirzada, Tananarive Due, J. Holtham, and Vita Ayala. [16] [17]

Personal life

Pichetshote was born in America, but moved to Thailand when he was twelve and then moved back for college. [1]

Bibliography

DC Comics

Marvel Comics

Other Companies

Image Comics

  • Geiger 80-Page Giant #1, short story "Goldbeard's" (2022)
  • The Good Asian #1-10 (2021-2022)
  • Infidel #1-5 (2018)
  • The Silver Coin #14 (2022)

Boom! Studios

  • Man's Best #1-5 (2024)

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