Publishers
2D Cloud
2D Cloud is a micro-press comics publisher and distributor based in Minneapolis, MN. Since 2007, we have published paper-craft art books, mini comics, and graphic novels by an assortment of both established and new/emerging creatives. Gravitating towards work that balances a distinct vision with narrative elements, we publish artists that …read more
Alternative Comics
About Alternative Comics Alternative Comics has been publishing cool creator-owned comics and graphic novels since 1993. The company was founded in 1993 by Jeff Mason in Gainesville, Florida in 1993. During the first 15 years of operation Alternative Comics’ cartoonists and publications were nominated for and won multiple comics-industry awards. …read more
Bento Comics
Bento Comics is the premier website for custom print-on-demand comics anthologies. At BentoComics.com you can browse a growing archive of short stories and series, pick your favourites and order a one-of-a-kind printed collection for your shelf! Bento Comics is proud to showcase work by many talented authors such as Queenie …read more
Chromatic Press
Chromatic Press is a new, independent publisher of original manga-style comics, illustrated prose, and audio dramas for girls and women across the globe. Based on a digital version of the “manga magazine” format used to publish comics in Japan, Chromatic serializes its stories through Sparkler Monthly, an online magazine with …read more
Conundrum Press
Conundrum Press was founded in 1996 in Montreal to publish under-represented writing and art. Since moving to Nova Scotia a few years ago have focused on publishing exclusively graphic novels, zine collections, and art books. Our BDANG imprint translates underground cartoonists from Quebec and our Conundrum International imprint is for …read more
Drawn and Quarterly
Drawn and Quarterly is a publishing company based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, specializing in comics. It publishes primarily comic books, graphic novels and comic strip collections. The books it publishes are noted for their artistic content, as well as the quality of printing and design. The name of the company …read more
Fanfare/Ponent Mon
Fanfare/Ponent Mon is a working liaison between two people with one aim — to bring quality storytelling in the comic medium from wherever it is found to everywhere it should be. Formed in 2003 they first focused on the French and Japanese alternative scene through Frédéric Boilet´s “Nouvelle Manga” movement but …read more
Grimalkin Press
Grimalkin Press is a small press boutique publisher of comics and art books. We focus on beautiful design and hand made book binding elements just as much as amazing sequential art content. We like to see our books as art objects both inside and out.
Hiveworks
Hiveworks is a studio/publisher that focuses on online media in the form of webcomics. We have over a dozen artists and hundreds of thousands of readers all over the world.
Nobrow Press
Nobrow started in the winter of 2008 with the aim to provide an independent platform for graphic art, Illustration and art comics in the UK and abroad, to become a leading proponent of quality in book design and a standard bearer for original creative content in print publishing.
Oni Press
Oni Press, Inc. was founded in 1997 by Joe Nozemack and Bob Schreck with the goal of publishing the kinds of comics and graphic novels they themselves would want to read. Unsatisfied with the material that was dominating the industry, the men believed firmly that sequential art could be used …read more
PictureBox Inc
Why is PictureBox? Because I love the things I love and I want to champion them. I tend toward outliers and I’m obsessed with the history of visual culture writ large and small. But look, ostensibly PictureBox is a publishing company. I publish around 10 books a year (graphic novels, …read more
Rigged Books
Rigged Books is a small-press publisher established in 2012 operating in southern California, dedicated to the production and distribution of quality comics, zines, and art books.
SelfMadeHero
SelfMadeHero is an independent graphic novel publisher based in London. Since its launch in 2007, SelfMadeHero has gained huge critical acclaim for its various series including Original Fiction and Graphic Biography.
Top Shelf Productions
Top Shelf Productions is one of the most acclaimed independent publishers of graphic novels in America. Dedicated to creating powerful books for all readers, regardless of genre or format, we publish artists who combine sophisticated storytelling, distinctive artistic vision, and popular accessibility. The Top Shelf library is anchored by established …read more
Uncivilized Books
Uncivilized Books is a micro-publishing label headed by Tom Kaczynski. The imprint has published works by Gabrielle Bell, Jon Lewis, Dan Wieken and Tom Kaczynski.
Youth in Decline
Youth in Decline is a publisher of lovely and strange comics and zines. Making its publishing debut at TCAF, Youth in Decline is a newly-minted publishing house run by Ryan Sands (Same Hat, Thickness, Electric Ant). At the Festival, we will be releasing the first issue of Frontier, a quarterly monograph …read more
Adhouse Books
AdHouse Books has been a boutique publishing juggernaut since the year of 2002. Over the years, they have won and been nominated for awards within the comic profession (Ignatz, Harvey, Eisner) and the design world (AIGA, Communication Arts, Domtar Paper). Their library of publications is an eclectic mix of sequential …read more
Benign Kingdom
Benign Kingdom is a creator-owned publishing project designed to showcase the art of independent comic creators. It was founded by Evan Dahm (Rice Boy), Becky Dreistadt & Frank Gibson (Tiny Kitten Teeth), KC Green (Gunshow), and Yuko Ota & Ananth Panagariya (Johnny Wander), with assistance by George Rohac.
Blank Slate Books
Blank Slate Books are part of the new UK comics scene. We publish a lot of new British comics artists as well as selected foreign language works translated into English. Last year our book Nelson was nominated for an Eisner award and we have 3 books nominated in the first …read more
Colosse
Since 2002, Colosse has published lovingly crafted, ephemeral small print run of more or less experimental comics, essays or sketchbooks from (mostly) Québécois authors. Only available at festivals we attend or by mail order, the Colosse collection is a haven for projects too risky, personal or radical for the bloody …read more
Domino Books
Domino Books is a publisher and distributor of artists books, comics, and all types of printed media. We publish artists that remind us that art is worth devoting your life to, even if there are no tangible rewards. It is our sincere hope that readers of our publications will have …read more
Éditions Trip
Éditions TRIP is a small alternative publisher whose mandate is to raise awareness of Quebecois comics on the international market. Trip was created and is managed by Stanley Wany and Marc Tessier. They uphold the works of Quebecois artists who have an original vision and a captivating narrative. We seek …read more
Fantagraphics Books
Fantagraphics Books has been a leading proponent of comics as a legitimate form of art and literature since it began publishing the critical trade magazine The Comics Journal in 1976. By the early 1980s, Fantagraphics found itself at the forefront of the burgeoning movement to establish comics as a medium as eloquent …read more
Hic and Hoc
Hic and Hoc has been publishing transcendental comic books and humor pamphlets from the likes of Alabaster, Ian Andersen, Pat Aulisio, Lauren Barnett, Neil Fitzpatrick, Lizz Hickey, Dina Kelberman, Bernie McGovern, Ansis Purins, Philippa Rice, and d w, since April 2012. Joining Hic and Hoc will be cartoonist Lauren Barnett.
Koyama Press
Koyama Press’s mandate is to promote and support a wide range of emerging and established artists. Projects include comics, art books and zines.
Northwest Press
Northwest Press is a book publisher dedicated to publishing the best lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender comics collections and graphic novels and celebrating the LGBT comics community. It was founded in 2010 by comics writer and LGBT comics activist Charles “Zan” Christensen.
La Pastèque
La Pastèque was founded by Martin Brault and Frédéric Gauthier in Montréal, Québec in July 1998, and their first publication, the first volume of Spoutnik, appeared that December. The establishment publisher arose from talks between Brault and Gauthier about the state of comics in Québec around 1997. Things seemed pessimistic, …read more
Revival House Press
Revival House Press is committed to graphically provocative books that feature a strong narrative character. We publish work that constantly strives to push our artists and their output to greater heights within the realm of comics
Secret Acres
Co-run by Barry Matthews and Leon Avelino, Secret Acres began publishing and distributing comic books in 2008. Secret Acres titles and artists have been recognized with Ignatz Award wins and nominations, an Eisner Award nomination and an LA Time Book Prize nomination. Several titles have appeared in international editions. A …read more
Toon Books
Founded in 2008 by editor Françoise Mouly, TOON Books is the first collection of high quality comics for early readers. TOON Books are heavily vetted by educators and librarians to create beautiful books that will build reading skills and nurture young minds. Each book in the collection is just right …read more
Topatoco
The Topato Corporation, or TopatoCo for short, is a company started in Oklahoma by cartoonist Jeffrey Rowland, who has been making internet comics since 1999. In about 2004 he created TopatoCo to legitimize the sale of merchandise related to his internet webcomics. Shortly thereafter he began taking on the duties …read more
Yeti Press
Yeti Press is a tiny publisher from Chicago who like to make comics and have fun, if you’re into the whole brevity thing. Otherwise, we were co-created in 2011 by RJ Casey and Eric Roesner with an interest in putting out a constant stream of sometimes-humorous, always reader-friendly minicomics and …read more
