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Genre |
Crime, comedy, horror, fantasy, science fiction, super. |
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Founded |
1992 |
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Distributes |
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Key people |
Todd McFarlane |
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.
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2000 AD - Avatar Press - Boom! Studios - Dark Horse Comics - DC Comics - Devil's Due Publishing - Dynamite Entertainment - Fantagraphics - IDW - Image - Independent - Marvel - Oni Press - Top Cow - Udon Entertainment - Vertigo - Viz Media - WildStorm |