Image

Image Comics is an American comic book publisher. It was 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. Along with DC, Marvel and Dark Horse, Image Comics is one of the four largest comic book publishers in America.

Recommended reading

 * Angelus
 * The new host for the general of Heaven's armies moves to New Orleans with her girlfriend (not a typo) and fights voodoo monsters, aliens, and her insubordinate archangel soldiers.


 * Astounding Wolf-Man


 * Astro City (Kurt Busiek)
 * Stories and tales about a city of a rich history of superheroes and supervillians often told through the eyes of the people who live there.


 * Beast (Marian Churchland) A young artist is commissioned to carve a portrait from a large slab of marble. Her client? A shadowy demon in a nice suit.


 * Battle Pope


 * Brit


 * Casanova


 * Chew
 * A detective who can psychically receive visions from eating things becomes a special agent for the government in a world where chicken has been outlawed. No really, it's actually awesome.


 * Dynamo 5
 * Who will protect Tower City now that its greatest hero Captain Dynamo is dead? Why his 5 illegitimate children of course!


 * Elephantmen
 * Blade Runner meets The Island of Dr. Moreau. Hundreds of years in the future, African animals are genetically engineered into soldiers. What happens when they're decommissioned?


 * Fell (Warren Ellis)
 * Warren Ellis' take on the noir genre. Beautiful art, dark and awesome storytelling, and you're lucky if one issue comes out a year. Notoriously off-schedule.


 * Firebreather


 * Five Fists of Science
 * Mark Twain and Nicola Tesla fighting Thomas Edison. Electrical robots versus lovecraftian monsters. SCIENCE!


 * Godland


 * Gladstone's School For World Conquerors
 * School for supervilian children.


 * I Kill Giants (Joe Kelly)
 * A young girl claims to others in her school that she is a fearsome giant-killer.


 * Invincible (Robert Kirkman)
 * A modern and sleek superhero coming-of-age story. A whole superhero universe told through mostly this one title.


 * Madman


 * The Maxx


 * Nightly News


 * Orc Stain


 * Pax Romana


 * Phonogram
 * Stories about the world where music is magic and music geeks are wizards. First series is basically a lengthy essay about britpop genre, but second one (Singles Club) is far more accesible.


 * Powers


 * Proof


 * The Sword


 * Underground


 * The Walking Dead
 * It has zombies!


 * Witchblade v2 (Ron Marz)
 * Ron Marz turns a paper-thin excuse for Marc Silvestri to draw naked women killing people into a fascinating paranormal police procedural.