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COMIC
COMPANIES!
DARK
HORSE COMICS
Dark
Horse publishes many licensed comics, including comics based on
Star Wars, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Aliens, and Predator. Dark
Horse also publishes creator owned comics such as Frank Miller's
Sin City and 300, Mike Mignola's Hellboy, Stan Sakai's Usagi
Yojimbo, Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Michael Chabon's The
Escapist.
DC
COMICS
One
of the largest and most popular American comic book and related
media companies, DC Comics produces material featuring a large
number of well-known characters, including Superman, Batman, Wonder
Woman, the Flash, Green Lantern, Captain Marvel, the Justice League
and the rest of the DC Universe.
IMAGE
COMICS
Founded in 1992 by seven high-profile illustrators as a venue where
creators could publish their material without giving up the
copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned
properties. Its better-known series include Spawn, Pitt, The Savage
Dragon, Shadowhawk, Youngblood, Supreme, WildC.A.T.s, Gen¹³,
Wetworks, Cyberforce, Witchblade, The Darkness, Invincible, , and
The Walking Dead.
MARVEL
COMICS
Marvel
counts among its characters such well-known properties as
Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, the Hulk, Thor, Iron Man, Captain
America, the X-Men (notably Wolverine), and many others. Most of
Marvel's fictional characters operate in one single reality known
as the Marvel Universe.
ONI
PRESS
An
American independent comic book publisher based in Portland,
Oregon. It was founded in 1997 by Bob Schreck and Joe Nozemack. Oni
Press has published such notable works as Queen & Country, Tek
Jansen, Scott Pilgrim, Local, Courtney Crumrin, and various comics
based on Kevin Smith's films.
SCOTT
PILGRIM!
This
comic series is about 24-year-old Canadian Scott Pilgrim, a
slacker, hero, wannabe-rockstar, who is living in Toronto and
playing bass in the band "Sex Bob-Omb." He falls in love with
American delivery girl Ramona V. Flowers, but must defeat her seven
"evil ex-boyfriends" in order to date her.
NEWS,
MOVIES, AND OTHER MEDIA!
NEWSARAMA
An
American website that publishes news, interviews and essays about
the American comic book industry. In addition, the site hosts an
Internet forum for comic-book fans.
MTV
SPLASHPAGE
Featuring
daily doses of comic-to-movie related facts and fanboys!
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