Renegade Press was an American comic book company, founded by Canadian Deni Loubert, that operated from 1984 to 1988. Notable titles published by Renegade included Flaming Carrot, Ms. Tree, and normalman.

Renegade Press
IndustryComics
Founded1984
FounderDeni Loubert
Defunct1989
HeadquartersLong Beach, California, U.S.

History edit

Loubert was publisher of Aardvark-Vanaheim until she and husband Dave Sim (owner and major contributor to Aardvark-Vanaheim) divorced, at which point she started Renegade and moved to the United States. With the move, all of Aardvark-Vanaheim's titles (with the exception of Cerebus) left that publisher to continue with Renegade. These included Flaming Carrot Comics, normalman, Neil the Horse, and Ms. Tree.

Although Renegade started in high-profile fashion, its titles suffered from low print runs.[1] In early 1988, Renegade refit its publishing strategy,[2] but suspended all publications later that year. In July 1989 the publisher was shut down for good.[3]

Titles edit

  • Agent Unknown
  • Amusing Stories
  • 3-D Zone Pack Vol. 2 (#6–10)
  • 3-D Zone Set
  • Barefootz
  • Cases of Sherlock Holmes (1986–1989), #1–15 (moved to Northstar Publications)
  • Cecil Kunkle Vol. 1 (1986)
  • Ditko's World Featuring...Static (actually Revolver #7–9)
  • Eternity Smith (#1–5, then moved to Hero Comics)
  • Flaming Carrot (1985) (#6–17)
  • French Ice
  • Friends
  • Gene Day's Black Zeppelin
  • Holiday Out
  • Howard Cruse's Barefootz: The Comix Book Stories
  • Kafka
  • Kilgore
  • Love Fantasy
  • Manimal
  • Maxwell Mouse Follies
  • Mechthings
  • Ms. Tree
  • Ms. Tree 3-D
  • Ms. Tree Rock & Roll Summer Special
  • Murder (actually Revolver #10–12)
  • Neil the Horse
  • normalman (1985) (#9–12, 3-D Annual #1)
  • Open Season (moved to Strawberry Jam Comics)
  • Phony Pages
  • Renegade Romance
  • Revolver
  • Robot Comics
  • Roscoe The Dawg, Ace Detective
  • Shadows from the Grave
  • The Silent Invasion (moved to Caliber Comics)
  • Spiral Cage
  • Starbikers
  • Starbinders
  • Strata
  • Suburban Nightmares
  • T-Minus-1
  • Tony Bravado: Trouble-Shooter
  • Trypto The Acid Dog
  • Valentino
  • Vicki Valentine
  • Wimmen's Comix #11–13
  • Wordsmith (reprinted by Caliber Comics)

References edit

  1. ^ "High Profile and Low Print Runs", The Comics Journal #119 (January 1988), pp. 40–48.
  2. ^ "Renegade Refits Publishing Strategy", The Comics Journal #127 (February 1989), pp. 17–18.
  3. ^ "Renegade Shuts Down", The Comics Journal #130 (July 1989), p. 23.