When was the production company that produces SpongeBob Comics formed?
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SpongeBob Comics SpongeBob Comics is an ongoing comic book series published by Bongo Comics and United Plankton Pictures. It was published every two months in the United States beginning in February 2011 and has been published monthly since June 2012.
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United Plankton Pictures United Plankton Pictures, Inc. is an American film and television production company that was formed in 1998 by Stephen Hillenburg. It is associated with Hillenburg's animated television series "SpongeBob SquarePants" (1999), in association with Nickelodeon Animation Studio, and other related media (such as the "SpongeBob Comics" (2011)). The company's headquarters is located in Burbank, California. The company's logo is Plankton.
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SPONGE (activist group) SPONGE, an acronym for Society for the Prevention of Niggers Getting Everything, was a prominent political pressure group founded in New York City in or around 1965. While the group at its peak never numbered more than about one hundred members, SPONGE received a massive amount of media coverage, due to the group's attention-getting name, wild antics, and the leadership style of its founder and first President, the twenty-four-year-old James "Sandy" McMenemon.
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Legendary Comics Legendary Comics is an American comic book publisher founded in 2010. The company is owned by Legendary Entertainment, a media company located in Burbank, California. The company publishes both original works and licenses ones based on films produced by Legendary Pictures.
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FremantleMedia Australia FremantleMedia Australia is the Australian arm of global production and entertainment company FremantleMedia and was formed in 2006 by the merger of market leader Grundy Television and comedy specialists Crackerjack Productions, who had both previously been acquired by FremantleMedia.
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MediaWorks (publisher) MediaWorks, Inc. (株式会社メディアワークス , Kabushiki-gaisha MediaWākusu ) was a Japanese publishing company in the Kadokawa Group known for their "Dengeki" (電撃 , meaning "electric shock") brand magazines and book labels. These included such well-known magazines as "Dengeki Daioh", and "Dengeki G's Magazine", along with MediaWorks' main light novel publishing imprint Dengeki Bunko. The company was merged with ASCII on April 1, 2008, and became ASCII Media Works. They mainly catered to the Japanese male otaku crowd, covering such topics as anime, light novels, manga, plastic modelling, and visual novels. However, MediaWorks had published three magazines targeted towards females—"Comic Sylph", "Dengeki Girl's Style", and "Character Parfait"—but each one was a special edition version of another magazine. MediaWorks ran yearly contests for original novel and manga submissions, such as the light novel Dengeki Novel Prize contest.
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4K Media Inc. 4K Media Inc. is an American production company currently owned by Konami. It was formerly a subsidiary of 4Kids Entertainment from 1995 to 2012 and its predecessor Leisure Concepts from 1992 to 1995 under the name 4Kids Productions, and was responsible for adapting and producing English language dubs of Japanese anime such as "Pokémon", "Yu-Gi-Oh!", and "Sonic X" among others, as well as producing original live action programs such as "WMAC Masters". In total the company has overseen development and adapatation of over 1700 animated episodes.
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MTV Animation MTV Animation is the animation department of the television network MTV. It was created in the late 1980s where it made several of the animated shorts that aired as bumpers for the network. It is often grouped with its Nickelodeon Animation Studios but they are completely separate departments. During the 2000s MTV Animation productions have decreased as MTV began importing more cartoons from their sister networks Comedy Central and Nickelodeon. Most of MTV cartoons are known for their dark humor, sexual jokes, graphic violence, pop culture references, and irreverence.
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John Lemmon Films John Lemmon Films is a traditional character animation studio based in Charlotte, North Carolina, United States, and is listed among five “prominent animation houses”. The company was founded in 1984 by John Lemmon and Mike Rosinski. Initially the animation studio worked exclusively in clay animation, but has since diversified into stop-motion, 2D animation and Flash animation, as well as web game design. The company has produced clay animated TV commercials for clients including: Disney, Cartoon Network and Dairy Queen. The studio has created clay-animated versions of well-known products, including the Coleman lantern, and has produced clay animated spots for Tandy Corporation’s chain of stores called McDuff Electronics and for Cedar Point.
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Future Comics Future Comics is a semi-active comic book publishing company founded by industry all-rounder Bob Layton, and his creative partners — Layton's mentor, artist/editor Dick Giordano and his frequent writing-partner David Michelinie, CFO Allen Berrebbi — and publisher Skip Farrell.
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Watanabe Productions Watanabe Productions Co., Ltd. (株式会社渡辺プロダクション , Kabushiki-gaisha Watanabe Purodakushon ) is a multimedia management company in Japan dealing in recordings, films, television, music publishing and artist management as well as the main subsidiary of the Watanabe Production Group.
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Content &amp; Company Content & Company, also known as Content & Co., is a Los Angeles-based brand studio. Founded by Stuart McLean in 2008, the company creates and distributes diverse branded content, including webisodes, micro series, short and long format series, scripted and reality formats, such as the 2012 production with Subway for a show called "4 to 9ers," a series of six ten-minute long episodes featured on Hulu, YouTube and several other websites. The company has won various Cynopsis Digital Model D awards as well as Advertising Age's Small Agency Integrated Campaign of the Year in 2014. Content & Company has received several Effie awards for shows such as “4 to 9ers” and Schick Hydro’s “Clean Break”.
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Dolphin Entertainment Dolphin Entertainment is a film and television production company that is located in Coral Gables, Florida. It was founded in 1996 by President Bill O’Dowd. Dolphin produces children and young adult targeted television shows and movies such as Zoey 101. Dolphin Entertainment has divisions in International Distribution, Merchandising, Licensing, and Music.
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Softgarage Softgarage (ソフトガレージ , Sofutogarēji ) is a Japanese company that produces anime, games, character goods, music, and books. "Softgarage" was the company that produced the anime. Though "Softgarage" primarily focuses on the production of original video animation (OVA), it has also worked on anime television series and anime film.
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Phil Roman Entertainment Phil Roman Entertainment is an independent animated cartoon studio, founded in 1999 by Film Roman founder Phil Roman.
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Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group (also known as Sony Family Entertainment Group) is an American and global company that was established in February 1999 by Sony Pictures Entertainment that handles all of the family programs and films by Sony Pictures. It was formalized on September 1, 1999. On January 17, 2001, Sony Pictures Family Entertainment Group acquired 3.8% in BKN International.
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Ocean Productions Ocean Productions, Inc. (also known as Ocean Group, Ocean Media or Ocean Studios) is a production company based in Vancouver, British Columbia produces localizations for distribution in Canada and US. Ocean has produced thousands of animation properties distributed partners and clients. Ocean also does domestic animation.
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Laika (company) Laika Entertainment, LLC., or simply Laika, is an American stop-motion animation studio specializing in feature films, commercial content for all media, music videos and short films. It is best known for its stop-motion feature films, "Coraline", "ParaNorman", "The Boxtrolls" and "Kubo and the Two Strings", all co-produced in partnership with Universal Pictures through its Focus Features label.
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Vertigo Entertainment Vertigo Entertainment is an American film and television production company based in Los Angeles, founded in 2001 by Roy Lee and Doug Davison.
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CoMix Wave Films CoMix Wave Films, Inc. (Japanese: コミックス・ウェーブ・フィルム , Hepburn: Komikkusu Uēbu Firumu ) is a Japanese animation film studio and distribution company based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The studio is known for its anime feature films, short films, and television commercials, particularly those made by director Makoto Shinkai. It was founded in March 2007 when it split from CoMix Wave Inc., which was initially formed in 1998 from Itochu Corporation, ASATSU (now ADK), and other companies.
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Filmation Filmation Associates was a production company that produced animation and live-action programming for television from 1963 to 1989. Located in Reseda, California, the animation studio was founded in 1962. Filmation's founders and principal producers were Lou Scheimer, Hal Sutherland and Norm Prescott.
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The Animation Picture Company The Animation Picture Company is an American animation studio in Sherman Oaks, California. It was founded in late 2006 by Dan Chuba, John Davis, Mark A.Z. Dippé, Brain Manis, and Ash Shah.