Icon Comics

Icon Comics
IndustryPublishing
PredecessorEpic Comics
Founded2004
Defunct2017
ProductsComic books
OwnerMarvel Entertainment
(The Walt Disney Company)
ParentMarvel Comics
WebsiteOfficial website

Icon Comics was an imprint of Marvel Comics for creator-owned titles, designed to keep select "A-list" creators producing for Marvel rather than seeing them take creator-owned work to other publishers.[citation needed]

History

Icon Comics was launched in 2004 with Michael Avon Oeming and Brian Michael Bendis' superhero/detective series Powers and David Mack's Kabuki moving to the imprint, both from Image Comics. In June 2005 the imprint's third title J. Michael Straczynski's Dream Police was launched, followed in September by The Book of Lost Souls, also from Straczynski. Criminal by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is an ongoing crime comic also published by Icon.

Mark Millar has described the deal with Icon in relation to his Kick-Ass series:

The creative team get all the rights and you do all the promotion yourself. You could end up out of pocket because some of the team get paid upfront under these deals whereas Johnny and I don't take a page rate. But it was a calculated risk as we both have pretty good reps and so anything over, say, 25,000 would basically cover our Marvel page rates.

Titles

Following the move of Brian Michael Bendis (as well as all of his comics) to DC Comics in 2017, the Icon imprint has been dormant:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Brady, Matt (January 16, 2008). "Mark Millar, Marketing Machine". Newsarama. Retrieved December 7, 2009.[dead link]
  2. ↑ Ching, Albert (March 19, 2011). "Bendis and Bagley on Their BRILLIANT Creator-Owned Debut". Newsarama. Archived from the original on March 23, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2011. This is a long miniseries so I guess the technical term is maxiseries. But it's really something in between.
  3. ↑ Richards, Dave (March 19, 2011). "C2E2: Bendis & Bagley's "Brilliant" New Creation". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on March 21, 2011. Retrieved October 11, 2011.
  4. ↑ Kabuki: Reflections (1998) - TPB vol. 01 at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original) Retrieved March 7, 2018.
  5. ↑ Renaud, Jeffrey (December 4, 2009). ""Nemesis" Asks: What if Batman was The Joker?". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on December 6, 2009. Retrieved December 4, 2009.
  6. 1 2 Arrant, Chris (November 16, 2017). "MARVEL Cancels POWERS and UNITED STATES OF MURDER INC". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on November 17, 2017. Retrieved March 3, 2018.
  7. ↑ Richards, Dave (April 16, 2010). "C2E2: Bendis Turns "Scarlet"". Comic Book Resources. Archived from the original on April 18, 2010. Retrieved July 8, 2010.