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 |
| Key people | William A. Christensen |
| Publication types | Comics |
| Official website |
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Avatar Press is an independent American publisher of comic books, founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing "Bad Girl" comics such as Pandora, Hellina, Lookers, The Ravening, and Brian Pulido's Lady Death.
Currently, Avatar publishes several ongoing series. They have a strong web presence, anchored by Warren Ellis' FreakAngels webcomic, as well as the comics news site Bleeding Cool, helmed by Rich Johnston.
History
Publisher Christensen had been a freelance contributor to Wizard magazine before founding Avatar. The company initially published only mini-series. They subsequently expanded to other formats.
As part of an effort to expand beyond their reputation as a bad girl publisher, it offered a number of noted creators an opportunity to publish creator-owned books with no content restrictions whatsoever. Among the creators to take them up on their offer were Frank Miller, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, and Garth Ennis.
Lately, the company has taken to licensed comic book adaptations of famous sci-fi and horror shows from movies and television, such as RoboCop, Night of the Living Dead, and Friday the 13th.
Titles
Titles that Avatar publishes fall into three general areas: "bad girl" comics, adaptations (including licensed properties), and original titles.
Bad Girl
Notable Bad Girl comics (often written by William A. Christensen and Mark Seifert) are:
- Pandora (Avatar's flagship character)
- Hellina
- Nira-X Cyberangel (Bill Maus)
- William Tucci's Shi
- The Ravening
- Lookers
- Mike Deodato's Jade Warriors
- Rob Liefeld's Avengelyne, Glory, and The Coven
- Marat Mychael's Demonslayer
- Tim Vigil's Webwitch
- Brian Pulido's Lady Death (of Chaos Comics fame), Belladonna, War Angel, Unholy, and Gypsy
- Medieval Lady Death
- Everette Hartsoe's Razor
- Jungle Fantasy, starring Fauna from the Threshold series' "Fauna, Jungle Girl"
- Twilight, which, along with Twilight: Live Wire, was reprinted in Twilight: Raw
- Mike Wolfer's Widow
upcoming works
- Ape Killer from world`` (2017)
- Sadism Man (2017)
- The Human Meat Slaughter (2017) creator of Crossed (Avatar comics)
- Trollevil (2017)
- War of the Worlds: Martian Evil (Avatar Press) (2017-2018)
- Dark Machine of Children (2017 or 2018)
Licensed properties
Notable adaptations of licensed properties include was Alternate Universe of Bad
Science fiction series, such as:
- Frank Miller's RoboCop, based on his unused scripts for RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3
- Stargate, both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
- Species
Horror series, such as:
- Friday the 13th
- A Nightmare on Elm Street
- The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
- George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
Other media
Adaptations from other media (and reprints):
- Alan Moore:
- Another Suburban Romance
- The Courtyard
- The Courtyard Companion
- Glory
- Hypothetical Lizard
- Light of Thy Countenance[1]
- Magic Words
- Nightjar
- A Small Killing
- Writing for Comics
- Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths
- Fashion Beast
- Max Brooks:
- The Extinction Parade
- Joe R. Lansdale:
- The Drive-in
- By Bizarre Hands
- On the Far Side With Dead Folks
- George R. R. Martin:
Original works
Avatar also publishes original works by comic creators:
- Jamie Delano:
- 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[4]
- Dicks
- Red Rover Charlie
- Stitched
- Streets of Glory
- Christos Gage:
- Kieron Gillen:
- Steven Grant:
- My Flesh is Cool
- Mortal Souls
- Jenni Gregory:
- Dreamwalker
- Rich Johnston:
- Rich Johnston's Holed Up
- David Lapham:
- Caligula
- Dan the Unharmable
- Ferals
- Mark Millar:
- Alan Moore:
- Eric Powell:
- Zak Penn:
- Hero Worship
- John A. Russo:[7]
- Tim Vigil:
- Faust
- Cuda: An Age of Metal and Magic
- Webwitch
- Jonathan Hickman
Former notable series as Normal
- Stargate, both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis as Avatar 1999-2016-17
References
- ↑ "WW Philly: The Avatar Panel". Newsarama. June 1, 2008.
- ↑ "Future Imperfect: Jamie Delano talks Narcopolis". Comic Book Resources. November 7, 2007.
- ↑ "Entering Narcopolis I: Jamie Delano". Newsarama. March 1, 2008.
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "WWC XTRA: Picking the Brains of a 'Living Dead' Legend with Avatar Press". Comic Book Resources. August 13, 2007.
- ↑ "Escape of the Living Dead". Avatar Press.
External links
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