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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.
| Pornsak Pichetshote | |
|---|---|
| Born | Pornsak Pichetshote |
| Area(s) | Writer, Editor |
Notable works | Infidel, The Good Asian, Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives, Man's Best |
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]
Pichetshote was born in America, but moved to Thailand when he was twelve and then moved back for college.[1]
DC Comics
- Absolute Power: Task Force VII #4 (2024)
- DC Festival of Heroes: The Asian Superhero Celebration #1, short story "Perceptible" (2021)
- DC Love is a Battlefield #1, short story "Able" (2021)
- Flashpoint: Green Arrow Industries #1 (2011)
- The Sandman Universe: Dead Boy Detectives #1-6 (2022-2023)
Marvel Comics
- Alien: Black, White & Blood #4, short story "Mother" (2024)
- Doctor Strange Annual vol. 3 #1, short story "Treat" (2019)
- Marvel's Voices: Identity vol. 2 #1, short story "Secrets" (2022)
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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