Imagi Animation Studios has acquired all rights to FLUORESCENT BLACK, a futuristic biopunk story set in Singapore and the Malaysian peninsula. The screenplay by sci-fi writer Matt Wilson will first be adapted into a graphic novel, to be illustrated by Nathan Fox with text by Wilson. The graphic novel will be the cover feature of a special edition of HEAVY METAL magazine to be distributed at Comic-Con International in San Diego, July 24-27, 2008, in addition to the publication's regular readership base.
Wilson, who studied visual arts and filmmaking at the University of California at Santa Barbara, has written and directed several award-winning short films. Illustrator/storyteller Nathan Fox's art has appeared in THE NEW YORK TIMES, INTERVIEW, THE NEW YORKER, ROLLING STONE, WIRED, MOTHER JONES, SPIN, MAD MAGAZINE, DC COMICS and many other publications. Renowned for his illustrations, comics, murals, skate decks and more, Fox's future projects span comics and narrative illustrations to gallery work.
