Last year, The Pitch named Kansas City Art Institute grad Nathan Fox Best Illustrator for his "hyper-detailed" work on such comics as Dark Reign: Zodiac and Joe R. Lansdale's Pigeons From Hell. Fox's new project, Fluorescent Black, is just further proof we picked the right guy.
Originally published in installments in Heavy Metal (magazine of
brutal music, murderous robots, and extreme boobage) Fluorescent
Black tells a classic rich vs. poor story, except it all takes place
with genetically modified humans in the year 2085 in South East Asia.
Here's the way Heavy Metal tells it:
A superior named Nina is the test model for cutting edge geneticAs great as that sounds, Fox actually turned the project down twice before he was finally able to find time in his schedule to take on illustration duties. He described the three-year journey of finishing the story with writer Matt Wilson as a labor of love.designs. She is a paragon of physical and mental health: her brain and
body represent billions of dollars worth of corporate research and
development. During a bio-terrorist attack, Nina is kidnapped by a
street gang and taken across the border into a ghetto full of man-made
splice animals, psychopathic hookers, drug addled freaks, deadly
insects, poisonous ecosystems, and abandoned tenements.
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