This weekend is L.A. Comic Con; Oni Press, the award-winning comic book publisher, and feature film production company SpectreVision are both going.
In an exclusive panel presentation on Sunday, December 3rd at Noon PT in Room 304, the two will confirm a partnership and a “Pop-up” publishing imprint.
We’ve had some teasers. We know that the pop-up imprint is about “Surveilling the Borderlands of Paranormal Experience”. We also have the name “High Strangeness”, which might be the imprint’s name or a comic book series.
Daniel Noah, Co-Founder of SpectreVision, told the press;
Accounts from experiencers of the paranormal suggest a vast, interconnected narrative unfolding at the farthest reaches of human experience – from UFOs, to cryptid sightings, to patterns of synchronicities that point to an invisible architecture underlying our reality. As an experiencer myself, I know firsthand that the world of high strangeness can have profound implications. We’re galvanized to explore this remarkable space with our partners at Oni.”
Inspired by authentic, documented accounts of paranormal occurrences since the mid-20th century, High Strangeness ventures into the enigmatic realms where the lines between reality, illusion, science, and myth blur, giving rise to cosmic awe and existential dread, transcending the limitations of conventional science fiction and horror.
Elijah Wood, Co-Founder of SpectreVision, added,
Comics feel uniquely suited to explore this wide-ranging spectrum of paranormal phenomena, utilizing the limitless possibilities of the medium to give shape to the often gaussian accounts of what cannot be explained through traditional means,”
Ahem, yes, that Elijah Wood.
Hunter Gorinson, President & Publisher of Oni Press.
Over the past decade, so many members of the Oni team and greater comics community have been inspired and influenced by SpectreVision’s extraordinary body of work. Together, we share a mutual fascination with the extremities of human understanding – where aliens, poltergeists, demons, fairies, and other entities all seem to extend like fingers from a hidden hand.
Through the uniquely powerful lens of comic storytelling, we intend to tell an array of stories exploring these multiple manifestations, but rooted in the same common understanding: Reality is thin around the edges . . . and if we press hard enough in exactly the right places, it just might shatter.”
SpectreVision is a production company dedicated to genre-bending works from bold voices in film, television and gaming. Founders Elijah Wood and Daniel Noah run the company and are responsible for films such as Mandy, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Color Out of Space and many others. In the gaming space, SpectreVision created Transference for Ubisoft, garnering nominations at the DICE and Golden Joystick Awards. In the television space, they are rebooting Max Headroom for AMC Networks.
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