Avatar Press

Avatar Press is an independent American comic book publisher founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen and based in Rantoul , Illinois . Avatar initially only published mini-series, but the product range has been greatly expanded since then. Avatar currently publishes several ongoing series, including Doctor Sleepless and Gravel , both directed by Warren Ellis .

Overview

Avatar Press has a remarkably wide range of “bad girl” comic series such as Pandora , which is considered by many to be a flagship character. Other "Bad Girl" comics are based on the characters Hellina, Lookers, The Ravening and Brian Pulido's Lady Death . As part of an effort to cement its reputation as a "bad girl" publisher, a number of well-known authors were given the opportunity to publish their own comics without any restriction on content. Authors who took up this offer include Frank Miller , Warren Ellis, Alan Moore and Garth Ennis , among others . Recently, the company has taken on the publication of comic adaptations of well-known science fiction and horror productions from film and television, for example RoboCop , The Night of the Living Dead and Friday the 13th. Avatar also has a strong web presence, started Warren Ellis' webcomic FreakAngels and the Comic news site BleedingCool , run by Rich Johnston.

title

The titles listed at Avatar can be divided into three areas.

"Bad Girl"

Notable "Bad Girl" comics (often written by William A. Christensen and Mark Seifert) include:

• Pandora , flagship character from Avatar
• Hellina
• William Tuccis Shi
• The ravening
• Lookers
• Mike Deodatos Jade Warriors
• Rob Liefeld's Avengelyne, Glory, The Coven
• Marat Mychaels Demonslayer
• Tim Vigil's Webwitch
• Brian Pulido's Lady Death (known from Chaos! Comics ), 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 ( reprinted with Twilight: Live Wire, in Twilight: Raw )
• Mike Wolffer's Widow

Adaptations

Licensed series

Notable adaptations of licensed works are: Science fiction series such as:

• Frank Miller's RoboCop , based on his unused scripts for RoboCop 2 and RoboCop 3
• Stargate , both Stargate Command SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis
• Species

Horror series like:

• 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
  • Magic Words
  • Nightjar
  • A small killing
  • Writing for comics
  • Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths
• Joe R. Lansdale :
  • The drive-in
  • By bizarre hands
• George RR Martin :
  • Fevre Dream
  • The Skin Trade

Original works

Avatar also published original works by comic book authors:

• Jamie Delano:

• Narcopolis
• Rawbone

• Warren Ellis :
  • Aetheric Mechanics
  • Anna Mercury
  • apparatus
  • Atmospherics
  • Bad signal
  • Bad World
  • Blackgas
  • Black Summer
  • Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island
  • Crecy
  • Dark blue
  • Doctor Sleepless
  • Frankenstein's Womb
  • FreakAngels
  • Gravel
  • ilium
  • Ignition City
  • No hero
  • Scars
  • Super god
  • Wolfskin

• Garth Ennis :
  • 303
  • Chronicles of Wormwood
  • Crossed
  • Dicks
  • Streets of Glory

• Christo's fee:
  • absolution

• Kieron Gillen :
  • The Heat

• Steven Grant:
  • My Flesh is cool
  • Mortal Souls

• Jenni Gregory:
  • Dreamwalker

• Rich Johnston:
  • Rich Johnston's Holed Up

• Mark Millar :
  • The Unfunnies

• Alan Moore :
  • Neonomicon
  • Providence

• Eric Powell:
  • The Goon

• John A. Russo:
  • Escape of the Living Dead

• Tim Vigil:
  • fist
  • Cuda: An Age of Metal and Magic
  • Webwitch

Individual evidence

1. ^ BleedingCool
2. ↑ WW Philly: The Avatar Panel ( memento June 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Newsrama, June 1, 2008 (accessed August 12, 2012)
3. ^ "Future Imperfect: Jamie Delano talks Narcopolis" , Comic Book Resources, November 7, 2007
4. ↑ : "Jamie Delano Entering Narcopolis I" ( Memento of 15 May 2009 at the Internet Archive (accessed August 12, 2012)), Newsarama, March 1st 2008
5. ^ "Double-Crossed: Ennis & Burrows talk Crossed," Comic Book Resources, June 12, 2008
6. ^ "CCI: Christos Gage discusses Absolution" , Comic Book Resources, July 23, 2008
7. ↑ Leader, Michael (November 3, 2009): "Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie Interview," Den of Geek, accessed November 3, 2009
8. ^ "WWC XTRA: Picking the Brains of a 'Living Dead' Legend with Avatar Press," Comic Book Resources, Aug. 13, 2007.
9. ^ "Escape of the Living Dead," Avatar Press

Web links

Commons : Avatar Press  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Avatar Press in the Grand Comics Database
• Avatar Press in the Comic Book DB
• Avatar Press on Flickr