In 2007, Boom! published Steven Grant's crime/action comic 2 Guns which Cosby and Ritchie co-produced for Universal Studios in 2013.
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Joe Casey created The Black Plague while Rafael Albuquerque's first American work debuted in The Savage Brothers.Ģ006 saw Boom! move into licensing for the first time with the debut of Games Workshop series Warhammer 40,000: Damnation Crusade, based on the popular miniatures game of the same name. Eisner Award winner Dave Johnson created covers for Zombie Tales and Cthulhu Tales. Mike Mignola and Troy Nixey's Oni Press series Jenny Finn migrated to Boom! and finally completed its story. DeMatteis collaborated with Giffen on Hero Squared and Planetary Brigade and brought his own series, The Stardust Kid, with Mike Ploog, over from Image Comics. ĭuring this time in its history, Boom! focused on publishing an array of original series created by a slew of industry veterans: Giffen worked on Hero Squared, Planetary Brigade, 10, Jeremiah Harm, and the Tales titles like Zombie Tales and Cthulhu Tales. Giffen and DeMatteis imported their Hero Squared series from Atomeka to Boom! and Hero Squared became the very first Boom! comic book solicited solely under the Boom! logo, shipping July 27, 2005. The issue was originally solicited by Atomeka but released after Richie had left the company to start Boom! Studios. Boom!'s first publication was Zombie Tales #1, a horror zombie anthology, released under the Boom! and Atomeka Press logos on June 29, 2005. When Giffen was featured as a guest at the Los Angeles Comic Book and Science Fiction Convention, he grabbed a drink with Richie after the show and persuaded him to part ways with Atomeka Press, and start his own outfit, Boom!. DeMatteis to publish their series Hero Squared, with the Hero Squared X-Tra Sized Special one-shot. While working with Atomeka, Richie cut a deal with Keith Giffen and J.M. īefore Boom!, Richie and Cosby worked briefly with Dave Elliott and Garry Leach in 2004 to revive 1980s comic book publishing house Atomeka Press. Richie planned to start Boom! to get away from Hollywood. In the early 2000s, Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby had been working in Hollywood, helping to option comic book projects as producers and working to develop them into films with the studios, but were getting increasingly frustrated with the process. ( April 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. This section needs additional citations for verification. Hunter Gorinson - Vice President of Business Development īoom! Studios (styled BOOM! Studios) is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher, headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. Lance Kreiter - Vice President of Licensing and Merchandising Stephen Christy - President of Development (Film and TV) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message)ĭiamond Book Distributors (rest of world) įilip Sablik - President of Publishing and Marketing ( January 2017) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing or replacing such wording. This article may contain wording that promotes the subject through exaggeration of unnoteworthy facts.