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| Industry | Publishing |
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| Founded | 2005 |
| Founder | Harry Markos |
Area served | United Kingdom |
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| Products | Comics |
| Website | http://www.markosia.com/ |
Markosia is a British comic book publishing company.
Markosia was founded by Harry Markos in 2004. He employed Richard Emms (previously of APC) as the Editor-in-chief as well as lead designer. [1] in 2005. Markosia had already published Harry Gallan's The Lexian Chronicles novel and the initial plan was to produce comic adaptations of novels, such as The Lexian Chronicles and G.P. Taylor's Shadowmancer . They subsequently secured the license to adapt Starship Troopers , leading to a broadening in the business plan. This would further expand when Markosia brought Chuck Satterlee on board as Director of Operations. [2]
Satterlee moved over from Speakeasy Comics after their troubles in 2006 and he assisted in bringing over a number of titles with him, giving Markosia a range of original comic titles. These included The Hunger by creators Jose Torres and Chris Dibari [3] and Chimaera Studios's with their 8 titles. [4]
In 2007 Markosia re-branded themselves for the comics Direct Market by merging with AAM (Associated Arts and Media) to form AAM Markosia.
In 2008 the company signed a number of properties such as The Boy Who Made Silence, Ritual, N-Guard, Serpent Wars and Eagle Award nominated anthology title Eleventh Hour.
Their titles include:
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