Description: A startling new experiment in comic book storytelling inspired by firsthand accounts of real paranormal encounters . . . where overlapping phenomena like UFOs, hauntings, cryptid sightings, and inexplicable synchronicities seem to indicate a higher, unseen order of reality . . .
Daniel Noah--writer, producer, director, and co-founder acclaimed production company SpectreVision-- has documented and logged hundreds of otherworldly encounters spanning the super-spectrum of "high strangeness" that connects sightings of objects in the sky to haunted places and other perplexing manifestations that extend like fingers from a hidden hand. In High Strangeness, Noah leads an otherworldly cast of premier comics talents--including acclaimed writers Chris Condon (Ultimate Wolverine), Zac Thompson (Cemetery Kids Don't Die), Christopher Cantwell (Out of Alcatraz), Cecil Castellucci (EC's Cruel Universe), and Christian Ward (Batman: City of Madness), and dazzling artists Dave Chisholm (Plague House), Noah Bailey (Station Grand), Valeria Burzo (EC's Epitaphs from the Abyss), Chloé Stawski (Sapphic Pulp), and Christian Ward (The Ultimates)--across five decades of uncanny encounters at the dimly lit borderlands of human experience . . . that interlock to reveal an ambitious, dimension-spanning finale informed by Noah's own real-life glimpses of nonhuman intelligence. Collecting High Strangeness #1-5, this oversized deluxe hardcover volume also includes five nonfiction essays on the history and evidence underpinning the phenomena detailed in each chapter.Brief description: Dave Chisholm is a graphic novelist and musician currently living in Rochester, New York, where he received his doctorate in jazz trumpet from the Eastman School of Music in 2013. His expertise in music, as well as his formal inventiveness within the comics medium, has resulted in a string of critically acclaimed music-centric comics and graphic novels, including Spectrum (Mad Cave Studios), Miles Davis & the Search for the Sound, Enter the Blue, Chasin' the Bird: Charlie Parker in California, and the groundbreaking graphic novel + original soundtrack Instrumental (Z2 Comics). In collaboration with writer Michael Conrad on Plague House, he's bringing that same formal inventiveness to the horror genre. Chisholm also has a passion for education and teaches comics and music at the Hochstein School and the Rochester Institute of Technology. In his free time, Dave enjoys spending time with his family and his cats.
Review Quotes: "This multifaceted curiosity will appeal to fans of stories about the paranormal, especially those who entertain the possibility that such strange occurrences are real." --Booklist
"Each [story] is excellent in its own way; together, they create palpable tension and wander through frenzied, off-kilter panel borders, haunting eyes in snowy landscapes, and colorful depictions of interdimensional travel. [...] High Strangeness is an ambitious, entertaining graphic anthology that combines UFOs, Bigfoot, and other paranormal favorites." --Foreword Reviews