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| Industry | Comics |
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| Founded | 1984 |
| Founder | Deni Loubert |
| Defunct | 1989 |
| Headquarters | Long Beach, California, U.S. |
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 .
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]
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