Broken Frontier

It was announced today that the UK comic book publisher Markosia Publications, publisher of such books as Starship Troopers, Heretic and Kong – King of Skull Island will be merging with sister company Associated Arts and Media (AAM) with immediate effect.

"It's something we've been looking at for a while now." Harry Markos, Managing Partner and Publisher of Markosia explained. "AAM has been working alongside Markosia for a while now – and with the recent changes in our company, the evolving Markosia that people like new E.I.C Brian Augustyn are creating and the new outlook and attitude we now have, added to the fact that many Markosia creators are already involved with AAM, it seemed right to bring both entities under one umbrella."

A global production studio, AAM is a talented pool of creators who assist in either putting packages together for submission to other agencies, producing books for other publishers (including book adaptations for mainstream publishers), and for putting flash or other animation trailers/teasers together. Additionally, AAM are currently creating packages together for other media – television, film and radio, as well as promotional material for non-comic businesses.

"With AAM we can target all areas." Harry Markos continued. "There are a lot of businesses out there who need quality scripting, art and design. Animation companies in both the U.S and Europe are interested in us developing non comic projects with them. We have book publishers who are interested in us creating graphic novels for them rather than through Markosia. And of course we have a variety of projects that we will be putting through Markosia itself, which is why we're combining the two."

With a talented pool of creators already involved including Chuck Satterlee, Tony Lee and Harry Gallan, Ryan Stegman, Dan Boultwood, Sam Hart, Chris Dibari, Jose Torres, Thomas Mauer, animator Rob Freeman and colouring studio Oran Utan Studios, AAM is building in size daily with new creators coming on board every month.

As for the name change, Harry Markos doesn't feel that such a change would affect Markosia's presence. "We have a lot of loyal fans, and a lot of retailers are buying more and more from us each month. With a daily comic at Newsarama and thousands of hits on our website daily, whether we're Markosia or AAM/Markosia really won't affect the products we release. We'll still be bringing out top-notch licenses like Kong – King Of Skull Island, Heretic and Starship Troopers as well as great new titles like Breathe, Vengeance of the Vapor, The Witness and Hope Falls. And that's not including the big announcements we have coming up over the next couple of months."

"Whatever our name – we're here for the duration."

For more information on Markosia, go to www.markosia.com.