Androsphere
“Androsphere” is a groundbreaking graphic novella with augmented reality created, written, and illustrated by a team of Colombian queer artists and published by Secret Horror. Available in Spanish and English. Release date: October 2026.
The story follows the search for Kiki, a missing undercover agent who has uncovered a sinister truth about the now-abandoned school he once attended outside of Bogotá. When Kiki disappears, he leaves behind a letter for his former best friend, Paco. Driven by love, guilt, and shame, Paco enters the school’s ruins, hoping to find him there.
Inside, Paco descends into a twisted reality that reflects Kiki’s emotional world, and the horrific past concealed in its corridors. Haunted by ghoulish children desperate to fit into a hypersexualized world, gay men trapped in cycles of self-hatred, otherworldly monsters – the school becomes a pulsing, living entity. The story is told through the vision of Bogotá-based queer writers and artists Luis Carlos Barragán, Melanconnie, and Faebian Ceruleo.
Scan the pages with a free augmented reality app to see the story come to life with real scenes from the actual abandoned haunted school where the story takes place. Embedded in the comic are clues and puzzles to artifacts and treasures from Kiki’s life. 
Melanconnie is an illustrator and animator. As a gender and race activist, they has been founder of an art collective, Severas Nenas, which did multiple projects for awareness and action locally and internationally. Nominated for best videoclip on Bogoshorts 2021 with feminist music video “Los Chicos Si Lloran” for the Grammy winning band Diamante Eléctrico. Graduated from Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia, they created Super Sheroes and comic workshops in Bogotá. They illustrated Priya and the Wolves & Priya and the Swarm. Their’s love for drawing is only matched by their love for insects.
Faebian Ceruleo is an artists from Bogotá, Colombia who is specialized in environmental background, concept art, creating comics and animations related to social narratives. He worked on the comic book “KAIA: awakening in the deep” which premiered ARTBO and La Muestra Internacional Documental de Bogotá and more recently “Archipelago: Speculative Futures.”
Luis Carlos Barragán Castro was born in Bogotá, Colombia. He is a writer and illustrator specializing in science fiction. He studied visual arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia, and Islamic art and architecture at the American University of Cairo. He has published four books: Vagabunda Bogotá (Vagabond Bogotá; Angosta Editores, 2011), El gusano (The Worm; Ediciones Vestigio, 2018), Tierra contrafuturo (Counterfuture Earth; Ediciones Minotauro, 2021), and Parásitos Perfectos (Perfect Parasites; Ediciones Vestigio, 2021). In 2024, he received the Sheridan le Fanu Award in Madrid for his contribution to science fiction.
Photo credit: Camilo Ponce de León
