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Hiveworks Comics (often just called Hiveworks) is a creator-owned graphic novel publisher and studio specializing in online comics.
The company was founded in 2011, and works with over 300 artists. As of 2021, it has raised over $5 million in funds on Kickstarter, has more than 15 million users and has 10 million social media followers. [1] Hiveworks provides hosting for webcomics, [2] as well as mentoring and advertising. [3] The Hiveworks website features a store, where creators can profit from merchandise sales. [4] It also assists artists with publishing. [5]
In 2018, French publisher Hachette announced its Robinson Millenials label would be publishing web-comics in partnership with Hiveworks. [6] [7] In 2020, Hiveworks partnered with Seven Seas Entertainment to release trade paperback editions, through Seven Seas’ existing deal with Penguin Random House. [8]
Hiveworks is known for focusing more on long-form comics rather than shorter meme comics. [9] It is also known for its support for cartoonists of color and LGBT cartoonists. [10] [11]
The CEO of Hiveworks, Xellette Stillwell, was named one of Forbes 30 Under 30 in 2021. [1]
Ryan North is a Canadian writer and computer programmer.
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Garfield Minus Garfield is a webcomic by Dan Walsh. Each strip of Garfield Minus Garfield is an edit of a comic strip from the comic Garfield, removing all characters except Garfield's owner Jon Arbuckle. Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, approved of the project, and an official Garfield book was published by his company. It was mainly edited comics by Walsh, with some comics contributed by Davis.
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Adventures of God is a comedy webtoon created and respectively written and illustrated by Italian Matteo "Teo" Ferrazzi and American Corey Jay. The comic explores the relationship between God and his sons Jesus and Lucy and the angel Gabe and demon Ebag after confirming the existence of the afterlife to humankind. It began publishing weekly on WEBTOON in November 2016. As of August 2019 it had 100 million views, and as of April 2021 WEBTOON reported that it had 1.4 million subscribers. The comic has been nominated for a Ringo Award in the Humor Comic category, ranking second behind I Hate Fairyland. Adventures of God is published in print by Rocketship Entertainment and was Kickstarted in October 2019.
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