Much like any literature, comics are produced, manufactured and created within individual publishing houses. While it may seem at first glance that heroes like Batman and Spider-Man are cut from the same cloth, they are in fact part of different publishing lines. The same can be said for popular comics outside the superhero realm like The Walking Dead, Preacher, or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (to name a few).
Each publisher has different licenses, proprietary intellectual property, or new creator-owned ideas establishing the foundation of their collective output. Below you’ll find guides to each of the top publishers in the comic book industry, from the “Big 2” of Marvel and DC to smaller more independently operated publishers such as Fantagraphics or Valiant.
Star Wars (published by Marvel, but big enough for its own guide!)
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I know it’s an unfinished universe but any interest/capacity to try doing the aughts comic universe of CrossGen? My favorite “third” universe growing up and seemingly every new artist they had became a superstar especially at Marvel! McNiven, Land, Cheung And more so you know it would look great at least!
I am wanting to do a unit with my middle schoolers on character development…. I’d LIKE to get a comic book for each student and have them explore the static vs dynamic characters introduced in the story… I need help finding a source that I can afford from my own pocket (100+ comics) AND has stories and characters that are school appropriate but still interesting stories for 7th grade. Any suggestions?
turma da monica
Hello, I am sure you could reach out to Marvel to get some sort of group username and password to use for a limited time with Marvel Unlimited. The latest comics from 2018, Marvel Fresh Start are all school appropriate, in general Marvel runs PG-13.
Thank you have a great day.
I need a publisher for my comic book
(N.O.V.A)
Have Lulu Publishing do it.
I got a 3.5 million dollar movie, need a coming book company to publish the movie in comic book form.
Info@kreativeuniverse.com
I am thinking about drawing comics and graphic novels and writing the storylines. I am also thinking about making graphic novel book covers.