Emerald City Comic Con Spotlight: Pornsak Pichetshote of Image Comics

The first weekend in March, Seattle, Washington welcomes one of the biggest comicbook conventions going: Emerald City Comic Con. It is a huge meeting of comic book artists, writers, and publishers from the smallest to the largest. This past weekend, Morgan had he opportunity to sit down with Pornsak Pichetshote, the writer of the upcoming limited series Infidel from Image. Pichetshote provided lots of informative insight into the process of developing Infidel. Writer Morgan Hampton met him in the lobby of the convention center where they hid in an empty shipping and receiving room in an otherwise crowded convention center. It was a typical interivew. Morgan: For those who don’t know you, speak a bit about your background. Pornsak: 12 years ago, I started off at DC as an editor for Vertigo. I was Karen Berger’s assistant. I rose through the ranks for the next seven years to become a full editor where I worked on books like Sweet Tooth, Unknown Soldier, Swamp Thing, Human Target and a bunch of other stuff. Around the seven-year mark, Geoff Johns made me an offer to move out to LA to be part of what was at the time the DC Media team. This was right when Smallville was ending and it was kinda like this blank slate of what DC Media was going to be. Working with Geoff, we started the TV division together and we got Arrow, The Flash, iZombie, Constantine and Gotham on the air. Then I kind of transitioned to oversee the TV department. I always have to laugh when I say the TV departme…