comic publisher industry comics founded 1999 founder ira hunter robin thompson headquarters victoria bc canada website http www.13flames.com 13 flames empire is an independent comic book publisher based in victoria british columbia founded by ira hunter and robin thompson in 1999 . contents 1 overview 1.1 contributors 2 13 flames empire titles 3 san diego comic convention 4 references 5 external links overview edit originally named hunter thompson unlimited the company changed its name to 13 flames empire in 2006 . ira met robin thompson in 1999 through an ad he put in the paper . 13 flames empire s titles include champions of hell zombie jesus and undead inbreds . 13 flames empire s comics target mature readers as they contain disturbing horrifying obscene profane and immoral material ; they often have satanic or horror themes . however they are tongue in cheek evil dead kind of funny ; ira says that he has a pretty sick and twisted over the top sense of humour . 1 champions of hell came out of a horror movie screenplay of the same name that ira had been working on . 2 zombie jesus came out of a local filmmaking contest in victoria called scrapshots . the criteria were that the movies had to be done entirely in one shot with no postproduction whatsoever . ira entered one called corpus delecti the passion of zombie jesus and surprised everyone by taking first place . 3 undead inbreds was created by joel shelton with dialog by ira hunter and lawrence denvir . it debuted at the 2010 san diego comic convention . writing for the comics is done mainly using the marvel method of writing with ira hunter supplying the outline and the dialog . sequential artwork for champions of hell is provided by robin thompson and artwork for the covers is provided by tim vigil of faust fame . the format of 13 flames empire s comics is black and white 8 x11 with bright and violent red covers . 4 contributors edit ira hunter robin thompson tim vigil joel shelton lawrence denvir 13 flames empire titles edit champions of hell 2000 present undead inbreds 2010 present zombie jesus 2004 present san diego comic convention edit 13 flames empire has had booth h02 in the small press section of the san diego comic convention since 2000 . in 2006 robin thompson dressed as the 13 flames empire character zombie jesus and wandered around the convention floor saying if you love zombies and you love jesus then you have to love zombie jesus . later at the eisner awards ceremony chip kidd stated that this was his favorite quote that he had overheard at the convention . 5 references edit japhy japhy july 2007 . q & a with ira hunter pdf . the metropolitan . archived from the original pdf on 16 january 2014 . retrieved 23 august 2016 . devlin mike . underground success . timescolonist.com . retrieved 11 november 2009 . gingold michael . experience the passion of the zombie christ . fangoria.com . retrieved 19 june 2009 . price . zombie jesus . thedevilsdemons.com . retrieved 10 march 2010 . parkin j.k. come for the james jean stay for the james kochalka . newsarama.com . retrieved 12 september 2006 . external links edit 13 flames empire official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title 13 flames empire & oldid 735800064 categories comic book publishing companies of canadacompanies based in victoria british columbia navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 23 august 2016 at 05 19 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view