Avatar Press
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Founded | 1996 |
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Founder | William A. Christensen |
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | Rantoul, Illinois |
Distribution | Diamond Book Distributors (books)[1] |
Key people | Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Alan Moore |
Publication types | Comic books |
Fiction genres | Bad girl |
Imprints | Boundless Comics Bleeding Cool |
Official website | avatarpress |
Avatar Press is an independent American comic book publisher founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing bad girl comics, such as Faust, Pandora, Hellina, Lookers, The Ravening, and Brian Pulido's Lady Death. Such comics are currently published under the "Boundless Comics" imprint.
Avatar has a strong web presence, anchored by Warren Ellis' FreakAngels webcomic, as well as the comics news site Bleeding Cool, helmed by Rich Johnston.
History
Avatar Press launched in December 1996 with three titles: Pandora, Silent Rapture, and Donna Mia. Lookers followed in January, 1997.[2] The founding publisher was Richard Christensen, his son William Christensen was editor-in-chief, and Mark Seifert was creative director.[3]
The Christensens already owned the comic book retail outfit Comic Cavalcade, which they started in 1989 when William Christensen was 16 years old.[4][5] Seifert worked as a manager at Comic Cavalcade.[6] William Christensen had been a freelance contributor to Wizard magazine before founding Avatar Press.
As part of an effort to expand beyond its reputation as a bad girl publisher, Avatar offered a number of noted creators an opportunity to publish creator-owned books with no content restrictions whatsoever.[citation needed] Among the creators to take Avatar up on its offer were Frank Miller, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, and Garth Ennis.
The company has also licensed comic book adaptations of famous science-fiction and horror movies and television shows, such as RoboCop, Night of the Living Dead, and Friday the 13th.[citation needed]
Titles
By author
- Jamie Delano:
- Mike Deodato:
- Jade Warriors
- Warren Ellis:
- Aetheric Mechanics
- Anna Mercury
- Apparat
- Atmospherics
- Bad Signal
- Bad World
- Blackgas
- Black Summer
- Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island
- Crécy
- Dark Blue
- Doktor Sleepless
- Frankenstein's Womb
- FreakAngels
- Gravel
- Ilium
- Ignition City
- No Hero
- Scars
- Supergod
- Wolfskin
- Garth Ennis:
- 303
- Chronicles of Wormwood
- Crossed[9]
- Dicks
- Rover Red Charlie
- Stitched
- Streets of Glory
- Christos Gage:
- Kieron Gillen:
- Steven Grant:
- Mortal Souls
- My Flesh is Cool
- Jonathan Hickman:
- David Lapham:
- Caligula
- Dan the Unharmable
- Ferals
- Rob Liefeld:
- Avengelyne
- The Coven
- Glory
- Mark Millar:
- Alan Moore:
- Another Suburban Romance
- Cinema Purgatorio
- The Courtyard
- The Courtyard Companion
- Fashion Beast
- Glory
- Hypothetical Lizard
- Light of Thy Countenance[12]
- Magic Words
- Neonomicon
- Nightjar
- Providence
- A Small Killing
- Writing for Comics
- Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths
- Zak Penn:
- Hero Worship
- Eric Powell:
- Brian Pulido:
- Belladonna
- Gypsy
- Lady Death (of Chaos Comics fame)
- Unholy
- War Angel
- John A. Russo:
- William Tucci:
- Tim Vigil:
- 777: The Wrath
- Cuda: An Age of Metal and Magic
- Faust/777: The Wrath (aka Darkness in Collision)
- Faust: Book of M
- Webwitch
- Mike Wolfer:
- Widow
Selected other titles
- Pandora (Avatar's flagship character)
- Demonslayer by Marat Mychael
- Dreamwalker by Jenni Gregory
- Hellina
- Jungle Fantasy, starring Fauna from the Threshold series' "Fauna, Jungle Girl"
- Jungle Fantasy: Ivory, starring an independent cave-woman named Ivory who is a "widow" in search of her infant son who was abducted
- Lookers
- Medieval Lady Death
- Nira-X Cyberangel by Bill Maus
- The Ravening
- Razor by Everette Hartsoe
- Rich Johnston's Holed Up by Rich Johnston
- Twilight, which, along with Twilight: Live Wire, was reprinted in Twilight: Raw
Adaptations and licensed properties
By author
- Max Brooks:
- The Extinction Parade
- Joe R. Lansdale:
- By Bizarre Hands
- The Drive-in
- On the Far Side With Dead Folks
- George R. R. Martin:
Selected other titles
References
- ^ Our Publishers
- ^ "Avatar Gears Up For December". Avatar Press website. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
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(help) - ^ Pandora', vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1997). Avatar Press.
- ^ "Comic Cavalcade | Better Business Bureau® Profile". www.bbb.org. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
- ^ tmitchel@news-gazette.com, Tim Mitchell (2005-05-17). "Comic book dealer wants to use site as a warehouse". The News-Gazette. Retrieved 2023-06-25.
- ^ Carlson, Debbie (November 23, 1992). "Superman's death sparks reflection, sends dealers searching for more". Journal Gazette from Mattoon, Illinois.
- ^ "Future Imperfect: Jamie Delano talks Narcopolis". Comic Book Resources. November 7, 2007.
- ^ "Entering Narcopolis I: Jamie Delano". Newsarama. March 1, 2008. Archived from the original on May 15, 2009.
- ^ "Double-Crossed: Ennis & Burrows talk Crossed". Comic Book Resources. June 12, 2008.
- ^ "CCI: Christos Gage discusses Absolution". Comic Book Resources. July 23, 2008.
- ^ Leader, Michael (November 3, 2009). "Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie Interview". Den of Geek. Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 2009-11-03.
- ^ "WW Philly: The Avatar Panel". Newsarama. June 1, 2008. Archived from the original on February 12, 2009.
- ^ "Escape of the Living Dead". Avatar Press.
- ^ "WWC XTRA: Picking the Brains of a 'Living Dead' Legend with Avatar Press". Comic Book Resources. August 13, 2007.
External links
- Avatar Press website
- Boundless Comics website
- Avatar Press at the Grand Comics Database
- Avatar Press at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
- Avatar Press at Flickr