Spectators

＂It’s an eye-popping show.＂ --Publishers Weekly

＂A visually ambitious, thematically daring, and powerfully unsettling supernatural romance that veers into incendiary social critique.＂ --Library Journal

A gripping and provocative graphic novel that takes a hard look at sex and violence, and the very different ways we obsessively watch both.

Hundreds of years in the future, New York City is haunted by many ghosts, including a voyeuristic woman who died in our present day and a mysterious gun-toting man from the distant past. Normally solo travelers, these two specters meet and travel around the world together, bearing witness to society’s forward march toward decay.

Readers won’t be able to look away as they watch with dark fascination how SPECTATORS explores the fine line between living and watching others live. Explicitly sexy and shockingly violent, this lavishly hand-painted epic is a thought-provoking, metaphysical masterpiece and the most ambitious collaboration yet between Pride of Baghdad artist Niko Henrichon and Saga writer Brian K. Vaughan.

Brian K. Vaughan is the award-winning writer of comics like Saga, Y: The Last Man and The Private Eye, a digital, pay-what-you-want series available at his site PanelSyndicate.com. His upcoming works for Image Comics include the futuristic military thriller We Stand on Guard with artist Steve Skroce and the young adult mystery Paper Girls with Cliff Chiang. He sometimes dabbles in television, including stints on the hit series Lost and Stephen King’s Under the Dome.

Niko Henrichon is a French-Canadian comic book artist currently residing in southern France. He is best known for his work on the graphic novel ’Pride of Baghdad, ’ written by Brian K. Vaughan. Henrichon has made significant contributions to American comics, working with iconic publishers on titles such as ’Doctor Strange, ’ ’New Mutants, ’ ’X-Men, ’ ’Spider-Man, ’ ’Marvel Knights, ’ and ’Fables.’ His work on the ’Meet the Skrulls’ miniseries played a pivotal role in the development of the recent ’Secret Invasion’ Marvel TV show.

In addition to his American projects, Henrichon has made a name for himself in the French comic scene. He illustrated ’Noé, ’ a graphic adaptation of the Biblical tale by director Darren Aronofsky, as well as two volumes in the ’Metabaron’ universe, collaborating with renowned writer Alejandro Jodorowsky. Recently, he illustrated the first volume of the series ’Fang, ’ written by Joe Kelly.