Eclipse Comics

Eclipse Comics
Founded1977
FoundersDean Mullaney
Jan Mullaney
Defunct1994
(intellectual property acquired by Todd McFarlane in 1996)
Headquarters locationStaten Island, New York, then Columbia, Missouri, then Guerneville, California, then Forestville, California
Key peopleCatherine Yronwode
Fred Burke
Letita Glozer
Beau Smith
Publication typesComics
Graphic novels
Trading cards
ImprintsIndependent Comics Group
4Winds Creative Group
Eclipse International

Eclipse Comics was an American comic book publisher, one of several independent publishers during the 1980s and early 1990s. In 1978, it published the first graphic novel intended for the newly created comic book specialty store market. It was one of the first to offer royalties and creator ownership of rights.

Creators whose early work appears in Eclipse publications included Scott McCloud, Timothy Truman, Dan Brereton, James Hudnall and Chris Ware, while the publisher also produced creator-owned work by Don McGregor, Mark Evanier, Gene Colan, Alan Moore, Steve Englehart, Steve Gerber and P. Craig Russell.