Titan Publishing Group
Titan Publishing Group is the publishing division of the British entertainment company Titan Entertainment, which was established as Titan Books in 1981.[2] The books division has two main areas of publishing: film and television tie-ins and cinema reference books; and graphic novels and comics references and art titles. Its imprints are Titan Books, Titan Comics and Titan Magazines.
| Parent company | Titan Entertainment |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1981 |
| Founder | |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Headquarters location | Bankside, London |
| Distribution | Littlehampton Book Services (UK) Penguin Random House Publisher Services (US)[1] |
| Publication types | Books, graphic novels, magazines |
| Fiction genres | Reference books, tie-in media |
| Imprints |
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| Official website | titanbooks |
Titan Books Edit
Titan Books is a publisher of film, video game and TV tie-in books. As of 2011, the company publishes on average 30 to 40 such titles per year, across a range of formats from "making of" books to screenplays to TV companions and novels, and has a backlist reprint program.
Titan Books' first title was a trade paperback collection of Brian Bolland's Judge Dredd stories from 2000 AD. Titan Books followed the first title with numerous other 2000 AD reprints. Subsequently, the publishing company expanded operations, putting out its first original title in 1987 (Pat Mills and Hunt Emerson's You Are Maggie Thatcher.) Around this time, Titan also began publishing Escape magazine (although the title was canceled in 1989).[3] Titan Books continues to publish both new and licensed graphic novels, as well as film and television tie-ins.
Titan Books’ range of fiction includes limited comic books tie-ins and novelizations for such films as Terminator Salvation, Iron Man, The X-Files: I Want to Believe, Transformers, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, The Dark Knight Rises and Firefly.
Titan also publishes coffee table books on animation, popular culture, collectibles and comic and fantasy art including Harryhausen: The Lost Movies published in 2019 and Flash Gordon: The Official Story of the Film published in 2020 and Escape From New York: The Official Story of the Film published in 2021, all written by John Walsh. As of 2016, Titan Books' editorial director is Laura Price.
Reprint comic collections Edit
- Beetle Bailey: Daily & Sunday Strips
- The Complete Flash Gordon Library[4]
- Hägar the Horrible: The Epic Chronicles: The Dailies
- Mandrake the Magician
- The Simon & Kirby Library
- Tarzan - The Complete Burne Hogarth Sundays and Dailies Library
Titan Comics Edit
Titan Books also publishes trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the UK and United States under the imprint Titan Comics. The company has a backlist of over 1,000 graphic novels. Its titles include such licensed characters and properties as Batman, Doctor Who, Family Guy, Heroes, Nemi, Superman, Judge Dredd and other 2000 AD characters, the Vertigo comic-book title Sandman, The Simpsons, Star Wars, Tank Girl, The Real Ghostbusters, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Transformers, The Walking Dead, Life Is Strange, Roy of the Rovers, Dan Dare, WWE Heroes, World of Warcraft and Bloodborne. In addition to licensed titles, Titan Comics also publishes creator-owned series, such as Bloodthirsty: One Nation Under Water (2015–2016) and Man Plus (2015–2016).[5]
In 2010, Titan acquired the American hardboiled fiction imprint Hard Case Crime, and since that time has released a number of comics and graphic novels under the Hard Case Crime brand.[6] Heroic Signatures gave Titan the license to publish new titles featuring Conan the Barbarian in 2022.[7] As of 2021, Titan Comics' publishing directors are Ricky Claydon and John Dziewiatkowski.
Titan Magazines Edit
Titan Manga Edit
In 2022, the Titan Publishing Group launched Titan Manga, an imprint focused solely on manga series, with their first release being a "director's cut" of Takashi Okazaki's Afro Samurai.[8]
References Edit
- ^ How to Order Titan Books
- ^ "Titan Publishing Group Ltd - Company Profile and News". www.bloomberg.com. Retrieved 23 June 2020.
- ^ Plowright, Frank. Opening Shots: And As Ye Reap, So Shall Ye Sow," The Comics Journal #122 (June 1988), p. 11.
- ^ Cecchini, Mike. "The Complete Flash Gordon Library (Titan Books), Review," Den of Geek (4 January 2013). Retrieved 2 November 2018.
- ^ Titan-comics.com
- ^ Lindenmuth, Brian (10 August 2010). . Spinetingler. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ Kit, Borys (21 June 2022). "Titan Comics Nabs Conan the Barbarian License (Exclusive)". The Hollywood Reporter. PMRC.
- ^ "Takashi Okazaki's Afro Samurai Kicks-Off Titan's New Manga Imprint". Anime News Network. 22 March 2022. Retrieved 14 October 2022.
External links Edit
- Titan Books - official website
- Titan Comics - official website
- Titan Books at the Grand Comics Database
- at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)