Com.x is a British comic publishing company.
History 2000–2002 Com.x was founded in 2000 by Eddie Deighton, Russell Uttley and Neil Googe. Deighton later described how the group came together in 1999:
The company published a number of titles in the following couple of years like Cla$$war by Rob Williams and Trevor Hairsine,Cla$$ Act, Sequential Tart, January 2002Finally Collected: Rob Williams Talks Cla$$war, Newsarama, 2 April 2009 Puncture by Uttley and Ben Oliver,The Final Puncture: Russ Uttley on Com.x's Puncture, Newsarama, 13 October 2003 Razorjack by John HigginsA Very Personal Vision: John Higgins on 'Razorjack', Newsarama, 7 April 2009 and Bazooka Jules by Googe.Neil Googe: Talking Com.x, Majestic, & More, Newsarama, 27 December 2004
Rob Williams suggested that the relatively greater impact Com.x had on the American publishing companies was:
The downside of this for the company was that their artists, like Trevor Hairsine,Trevor Hairsine's Captain America With Cla$$ , Comicon.com, 18 December 2002 Ben Oliver, Joshua MiddletonMiddleton Exclusive With Marvel , Newsarama, 1 April 2003 and Neil Googe, were snapped up by Marvel and DC.
They ran into bigger problems in 2002 when their offices were burgledCom.X Office Burglarized; Currently Assessing Extent of Damages And Losses , Comics Bulletin, September 2002 and it took them time to recover.A Com.x Update, Newsarama, 11 December 2002 Other named projects, like Battle Raven Six by Antony Johnston,Creepy Curves, Sequential Tart, July 2001 were never published and the company went quiet for over a year.
2003–2004 The second phase of the company's activity took place in 2003 and 2004.Com.x's Act Together, Titles To Return in March, Newsarama, 4 December 2003 The first three issues of Cla$$war were collected into a trade paperback in 2003Com.x Announces Cla$$war Trade, N-jin, Newsarama, 30 April 2003Cla$$war's Rob Williams Entertains You , Comics Bulletin, 11 December 2003 and the series was finished in 2004 with new artist Travel Foreman.Cla$$war Returns With a New Artist, Newsarama, 23 June 2003The Ongoing War - A Preview & Update on Cla$$war, Newsarama, 25 March 2004 However, when interviewed in 2004 Googe said he did not feel the company had fully returned:
Other titles that were announced as returning, but never appeared, include Bazooka Jules with new artist LeSean ThomasBazooka Jules Returns With LeSean Thomas, Newsarama, 2 September 2003Bazooka Jules - There and Back Again For LeSean Thomas, Newsarama, 26 January 2004 and Thomas' own Cannon Busters.LeSean Thomas' Cannon Busters Lands at Com.x, Newsarama, 14 November 2003
2008–present The company returned fully to comics publishing in 2008, led by Eddie Deighton and business partner Benjamin Shahrabani, with a more sustainable business model. To avoid delays in the releasing of series, Deighton said that "[o]ur publishing model, at least for the time being, is going to focus on graphic novel format, collected editions, complete story-arcs, etc."Deighton on the Return of Com.x , Comicon.com, 9 April 2009
This included the release of new original graphic novel Path by Gregory Baldwin, along with the collection of Razorjack21 Questions With John Higgins, Mindless Ones, 9 March 2009 and Cla$$war.Cla$$war & the Resurrection of Com.X, Comic Book Resources, 12 March 2009 Then they will roll out other titles, including Forty-Five written by Andi Ewington with forty-five comics artists, a softcover collection of Cla$$war and another creator-owned comic.
Titles
Titles published include:
Babble by writer Lee Robson, with art by Bryan Coyle Bazooka Jules by Neil Googe BlueSpear by writer Eddie Deighton/Andi Ewington, with art by Cosmo White Cla$$war by writer Rob Williams, with art by Trevor Hairsine/Travel Foreman. Coloured by Len O'Grady Codename: Babetool by writer Jose Luis Gaitan, with art by Walter Taborda Duppy'78 by writer Casey Seijas, with art by Amancay Nahuelpan. Coloured by Daniel Warner Forty-Five by writer Andi Ewington, with art by various artists The Last American by writers Alan Grant/John Wagner, with art by Mike McMahon Monster Myths by John Lupo Avanti N-jin by writer Guy Haley, with art by Dan Boultwood. Coloured by Len O'Grady O:R:E by writer Eddie Deighton and Jim Alexander Path by Gregory Baldwin Primal by writer Russell Uttley, with art by Joshua Middleton/Ben Oliver Puncture by writer Russell Uttley, with art by Ben Oliver Razorjack by John Higgins SEEDS by Ross Mackintosh Sky Between Branches by Joshua Middleton
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