Simpsons Illustrated led to the establishment of what comic book publishing company that was founded in 1993 by Matt Groening, along with Steve and Cindy Vance and Bill Morrison?
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Simpsons Illustrated Simpsons Illustrated was a companion magazine to the American animated television show "The Simpsons". It featured, among many other things, articles and interviews about the show and comics based on the "Simpsons" universe. "Simpsons Illustrated" was published between 1991 and 1993 and led to the establishment of the Bongo Comics Group.
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Bongo Comics Group Bongo Comics Group is a comic book publishing company founded in 1993 by Matt Groening along with Steve & Cindy Vance and Bill Morrison. It publishes comics related to the animated television series "The Simpsons" and "Futurama", as well as the "SpongeBob SquarePants" comic; along with original material. It was named after Bongo, a rabbit character in Groening's comic strip "Life in Hell".
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Gladstone Publishing Gladstone Publishing was an American company that published Disney comics from 1986 to 1990 and from 1993 to 1998. The company had its origins as a subsidiary of "Another Rainbow", a company formed by Bruce Hamilton and Russ Cochran to publish the Carl Barks Library and produce limited edition lithographs of Carl Barks oil paintings of the Disney ducks. The name references Gladstone Gander.
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Nifty Comics Nifty Comics is a comic book publishing company founded in 1995 by film, television and comic book veteran, Mat Nastos. In 2005, Nifty Comics released its first feature length DVD film, Bite Me, Fanboy.
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Home Plate Entertainment Home Plate Entertainment is an American animation studio, founded in 2010 by Emmy Award-winning producer, Bill Schultz.
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Cadillacs and Dinosaurs (TV series) Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is an American/Canadian animated television series which aired on CBS Kids in the United States from 1993 to 1994, lasting for one season of 13 episodes. Based on the comic book of the same name (formerly titled "Xenozoic Tales") by Mark Schultz, the show was created by screenwriter Steven E. de Souza, who acquired the TV rights after producing the video game "Cadillacs and Dinosaurs," which was also based on Schultz's comic. The show dealt with many strong ecologicial and political issues that were central to the plot development.
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First Comics First Comics was an American comic-book publisher that was active from 1983 to 1991, known for titles like "American Flagg!", "Grimjack", "Nexus", "Badger", "Dreadstar", and "Jon Sable". Along with competitors like Pacific Comics and Eclipse Comics, First took early advantage of the growing direct market, attracting a number of writers and artists from DC and Marvel to produce creator-owned titles, which, as they were not subject to the Comics Code, were free to feature more mature content.
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The Clown (2000 AD) The Clown is a series published in the comic anthology "2000 AD" between 1992 and 1994. It was created by Igor Goldkind and Robert Bliss. The story is about a clown who goes a violent rampage to avenge the decapitation of his pony Toby.
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Innovation Publishing Innovation Publishing (also known as Innovation Books) was an American comic book company based in Wheeling, West Virginia. It was co-founded by David Campiti in 1988 after writing a business proposal and raising US$400,000 to finance its launch. Innovation became #4 in market share, below Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Dark Horse Comics.
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Mad (magazine) Mad (very often stylized as MAD) is an American humor magazine founded in 1952 by editor Harvey Kurtzman and publisher William Gaines, launched as a comic book before it became a magazine. It was widely imitated and influential, affecting satirical media, as well as the cultural landscape of the 20th century, with editor Al Feldstein increasing readership to more than two million during its 1974 circulation peak. As of January 2017, "Mad" has published 544 regular issues, as well as hundreds of reprint "Specials", original material paperbacks, compilation books and other print projects.
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A Matter of Some Gravity A Matter of Some Gravity is an Uncle Scrooge adventure comic written and drawn by Don Rosa in 1996 and includes Magica De Spell. Like some other comic stories by Rosa ("Cash Flow" and "The Universal Solvent"), the story is founded with toying with the laws of nature. Rosa claims that he thinks that he got the ideas for those comics from a mechanical engineering course in an institute of higher education, which he took before he became a professional cartoonist.
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Epic Comics Epic Comics (also known as the Epic Comics Group) was a creator-owned imprint of Marvel Comics started in 1982, lasting through the mid-1990s, and being briefly revived on a small scale in the mid-2000s.
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Adelaide Productions Adelaide Productions is an animation division of Sony Pictures Television that was founded on April 12, 1993, by Columbia Pictures Television and was incorporated seven days later. It has also been titled "Columbia TriStar Animation" and "Columbia TriStar Children's Television".
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Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book and manga publisher. It was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, with the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals.
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Wild Cartoon Kingdom Wild Cartoon Kingdom was an animation magazine published from 1993 to 1994 by Larry Flynt Publications.
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Arcadia Publishing It was founded in Dover, New Hampshire, in 1993 by United Kingdom-based Tempus Publishing, but became independent in 2004. The corporate office is in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina.
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Batman Incorporated Batman Incorporated (also known as Batman, Inc.) is an American comic book series published by DC Comics, featuring the superhero Batman. Written by Grant Morrison, the series debuts following the events of "Batman R.I.P", "Final Crisis", "Batman and Robin", and "" where, after being stranded in the distant past and believed dead, Bruce Wayne has returned to the present day DC Universe. Now, he is prepared to take his war on crime to the next level, by essentially "franchising" it and drafting, training and commanding a global team of heroes who will answer to Batman himself called Batman Incorporated.
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Genus (comics) Genus is a furry erotic comic book originally published by Antarctic Press and continued by Radio Comix under its "Sin Factory" imprint. Issues contain sexually explicit stories and pin-up illustrations by various artists, featuring anthropomorphic animals (no human characters are included), and are labeled for sale to adults only. The series began in June 1993, with 94 issues published as of April 2012. Originally published in stapled format, recent issues are square bound with higher page counts. Diamond Comic Distributors' catalog describes it as "The longest-running erotic comic anthology".
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The Golden Age (comics) The Golden Age is a 1993 four-issue "Elseworlds" comic book mini-series by writer James Robinson and artist Paul Smith. It concerns the Golden Age DC Comics superheroes entering the 1950s and facing the advent of McCarthyism.
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List of The Simpsons guest stars In addition to the show's regular cast of voice actors, celebrity guest stars have been a staple of "The Simpsons", an American animated television sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company, since its first season. "The Simpsons" focuses on the eponymous family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The family was initially conceived by Groening for a series of animated shorts, which originally aired as a part of "The Tracey Ullman Show" between 1987 and 1989. The shorts were developed into a half-hour prime time series which began in December 1989. The series' 27th season began in September 2015 and episodes of "The Simpsons" have aired. A feature film adaptation of the series called "The Simpsons Movie", was released in 2007.
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Non-English versions of The Simpsons The animated TV show "The Simpsons" is an American English language animated sitcom which has been broadcast in the United States since 1989 on FOX. In other countries, the TV show started broadcasting later than 1989 either in its original version or in a dubbed version.
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Super Dinosaur Super Dinosaur is an American comic book series published by Image Comics' Skybound imprint beginning in 2011. The comic was created by writer Robert Kirkman and artist Jason Howard, who had previously worked together on Image's "The Astounding Wolf-Man".