Ghost Machine (company)

For other uses, see Ghost Machine (disambiguation).

Ghost Machine
StatusActive
FoundedOctober 12, 2023; 12 months ago (2023-10-12)[1]
Country of originUnited States
DistributionImage Comics
Key people
,Brad Anderson, Rob Leigh
Publication typesscience fiction
historical fantasy
post-apocalyptic fiction
horror
Fiction genres
Official websiteOfficial website

Ghost Machine is an American cooperative media company founded in October 2023, which publishes creator-owned comics through Image Comics, and was founded to help the participating creators to benefit from the development of its intellectual properties. The company was announced on October 12, 2023 at the New York Comic Con. Its founding writers and artists, who are exclusive to the company, are Brad Meltzer, Jason Fabok, Gary Frank, Bryan Hitch, Geoff Johns, Francis Manapul, Peter J. Tomasi, Lamont Magee, and Maytal Zchut, Brad Anderson, Rob Leigh[1][2]

At its launch, the creators stressed that unlike the work they had done in the past for publishers such as DC Comics, the books of the four shared universes established by the company's first official release in January 2024, Ghost Machine #1, would not be set in the superhero genre,[3] but in other genres such as science fiction, historical fantasy, post-apocalyptic fiction, and horror.[4]

  1. ^ a b Gustines, George Gene (October 12, 2023). "A Comic Book Upstart Seeks to Shake Up the Industry". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on October 14, 2023. Retrieved October 19, 2023.
  2. ^ "NYCC 2023: Ghost Machine Launches A Cooperative Media Company". Graphic Policy. October 16, 2023. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.
  3. ^ "Welcome to Ghost Machine". Ghost Machine Productions. October 11, 2023. Archived from the original on October 18, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023 – via YouTube.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ Johnston, Rich (October 12, 2023). "Johns, Hitch, Frank, Fabok, Tomasi, Meltzer & Manapul's Ghost Machine". Bleeding Cool. Archived from the original on October 19, 2023. Retrieved October 21, 2023.