1986 founder dan vado headquarters location san jose california key people dan vado publisher jennifer de guzman editor in chief publication types comics imprints amaze ink official website www.slgcomic.com slave labor graphics slg is an independent american comic book publisher well known for publishing darkly humorous offbeat comics . contents 1 company history 2 titles 3 notes 4 references 5 external links company history edit slave labor graphics was started in 1986 by dan vado who remains the company s president and publisher . the first book slave labor graphics published was shadow star 3 a female superhero character previously published independently by some of vado s friends . slave labor graphics s first major success was samurai penguin 1 by dan and mark buck which sold 58 000 copies in the summer of 1986 . citation needed the first few titles such as hero sandwich and it s science with dr. radium were all created by friends of vado s from high school . other successes were milk & cheese a comic about mean spirited anthropomorphic dairy products by evan dorkin and johnny the homicidal maniac a comic about the adventures of a serial killer by jhonen vasquez . in this time period comic book speculation was rampant so slave labor graphics was able to sell its entire print run of many titles . citation needed however at the end of the speculation bubble some distributors went out of business without paying slave labor graphics . citation needed in 1995 slave labor graphics added an imprint called amaze ink intended to be for all audiences and more genre oriented ; the stranger more adult and more difficult to categorize material would still be published under the slave labor imprint . in 2005 slave labor graphics entered into a partnership with the walt disney company to produce comic book series based on some of its properties haunted mansion wonderland tron and gargoyles . 1 its own creations such as little gloomy 1999 2005 kid gravity 2003 present and the super scary monster show featuring little gloomy 2005 present appear have appeared regularly in disney adventures magazine . 2 in september 2008 slg were remodelling their lobby to be a smaller gallery shop 3 which opened as boutiki in san jose in december 2008 4 the gallery shop is still operating with name of art boutiki as of 2014 december . 5 in late 2010 slave labor graphics established an independent record label entitled slab yard sound company . 6 in january 2012 editor in chief jennifer de guzman who had been with the company since 2001 left to become the pr and marketing director at image comics . 7 titles edit absent friends 2004 a bag of anteaters action girl comics 1 19 1994 2001 adora gone and the electric electric elephant 2010 awkward autumn 1 2004 present babyhead magazine 1 2004 babysitter bad art collection barrabas 1986 bear 1 10 by jamie smart 2004 2005 beer and roaming in las vegas bill the clown bloody dreadful by justin bastard sane black heart billy bombaby screen goddess by antony mazzotta byron mad bad and dangerous by karl christian krumpholz 2007 camping with bigfoot captain dingleberry the cat with the really big head cemetarians 1 charm school chickenhare chumble spuzz by ethan nicolle the clarence principle by fehed said and shari chankhamma 2007 cocopiazo the comical tragedy of punch and judy comic book heaven corporate ninja 2005 dead eyes open by roy boney 2005 definition dim witted darryl dork by evan dorkin 1993 dr. grave by ed clayton dystopik snomen by don m. haring jr. 1995 eating steve a love story egg story elmer emily and the intergalactic lemonade stand emo boy evenfall by pete stathis 2004 everwinds everything can be beaten farewell georgia fillerbunny by jhonen vasquez fishmasters gargoyles a continuation of the tv series ghouly boys gloomcookie 1 28 by serena valentino and vincent batignole the griffin by dan vado halo and sprocket 1 4 2002 haunted mansion heart of a corpse by justin bastard sane hectic planet previously known as pirate corp hero sandwich 1 5 1987 1989 highway 13 hummingbird hsu and chan by jeremy norm scott i feel sick 1 2 by jhonen vasquez 1999 2000 imp iliad 1 2 it s science with doctor radium 1986 jellyfist by jhonen vasquez and jenny goldberg jet comics 1 3 jet pack pets johnny the homicidal maniac 1 7 by jhonen vasquez 1995 1997 kitsune tales 1 by woodrow phoenix and andi watson 2003 knights of the living dead lenore 1 13 by roman dirge 1998 life of a fetus 1 7 likewise 1 2 2002 little gloomy 1 6 1999 little gloomy adventures oneshot 2003 little gloomy crypt of creepts oneshot 2004 little gloomy hallowe en special oneshot little scrowlie longshot comics shanne simmons volume 1 1995 . volume 2 1997 love in tights lowlife metamorphosis odyssey by jim starlin midnight sun milk & cheese mister blank model a the monsters in my tummy mr. night muzz my monkey s name is jennifer 2002 next exit nightmares & fairy tales by serena valentino and camilla d errico nil a land beyond belief no hope oblivion city oddjob on the bus outlook grim 1 6 2003 2004 the pants ant trouser hour paris by andi watson 2005 2006 patty cake pinocchio vampire slayer pirate club the price private beach 1 7 2002 punk rock & trailer parks 2008 the replacement god rex libris rogue satellite comics 1 3 reilly & atkinson 1996 1997 the royal historian of oz samurai jam 3 4 by andi watson 1993 previously samurai funnies published by solson publications samurai penguin 1 8 1986 1988 samurai penguin food chain follies 1 sanctuary screenplay 1 screwtooth 1 2006 serenity rose seth throb underground artist shadoweyes by sophie campbell 2010 shadow star 3 1986 ; 1 2 published by savage graphics sidney mellon s thunderskull the sister s luck by shari chankhamma 2010 skaggy the lost 1 4 trade paperback skeleton girl comics 1 3 skeleton key by andi watson 1995 sky ape 1 4 slacker comics slow news day by andi watson 2001 street angel 1 5 sparks squee 1 4 jhonen vasquez 1997 1998 strongman by charles soule sugarbuzz swerve 1 2 by downer creator kyle s. hunter the jam 2 6 1989 1990 came from matrix graphics moved to dark horse comics the super scary monster show featuring little gloomy tales from the heart tron the ghost in the machine 2006 2008 ; miniseries following up the film and the video game tron 2.0 the trouble with igor 1 2006 truth serum ubu bubu 1 4 2008 2009 ursa minors 1 2006 vaistron 1 5 2005 the vesha valentine story by des taylor 2011 the waiting place weird science 1986 where s it at sugar kat whistles by andrew hussie 2007 wonderland zombies calling by faith erin hicks 2007 notes edit dan vado on slg s disney deal . newsarama . nycc slave labor graphics dan vado talks disney licensed comics . february 26 2007 slg office beutification adventure part two uploaded on september 2 2008 by dan vado . retrieved 2014 december 21 . boutiki opening a success blog posted december 12 2008 by jennifer de guzman . retrieved 2014 december 21 . the art boutiki website . retrieved 2014 december 21 . slg publishing gets into the music biz . november 22 2010 jennifer de guzman to handle pr and marketing at image january 17 2012 references edit wondercon 07 slave labor panel report newsarama external links edit official website slave labor graphics at the inducks v t e comic book publishers in north america active major boom studios dark horse comics dc comics dynamite entertainment idw publishing image comics marvel comics active minor aardvark vanaheim ac comics action lab comics ait planet lar alias enterprises alternative comics another rainbow publishing antarctic press arcade comics archaia entertainment archie comics aspen mlt avatar press azteca productions beyond comics black mask studios bluewater productions bongo comics group creative impulse entertainment conundrum press darby pop publishing devil s due publishing drawn and quarterly eureka productions fantagraphics books first second books hermes press kodansha usa last gasp legendary comics milestone media mirage studios nbm publishing oni press papercutz platinum studios radical comics radio comix rip off press seven seas entertainment shadowline sirius entertainment slave labor graphics tokyopop top cow productions top shelf productions udon entertainment valiant comics vertical viper comics viz media warp graphics zenescope entertainment former aircel comics all american publications american comics group atlas comics atlas seaboard comics awesome comics blackthorne publishing caliber comics catalan communications centaur publications chaos comics charlton comics harry a chesler comico comicsone continuity comics crossgen defiant comics dell comics del rey manga disney comics ec comics eclipse comics eternity comics fantaco enterprises fawcett comics fiction house first comics fox feature syndicate gladstone publishing gemstone publishing gilberton gold key comics harvey comics highwater books holyoke publishing hyperwerks innovation publishing kitchen sink press mainline publications malibu comics millennium publications nedor publishing now comics pacific comics print mint crestwood publications quality comics renegade press revolutionary comics skywald publications standard comics timely comics topps comics tundra publishing vortex comics warren publishing wildstorm retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title slave labor graphics & oldid 703144766 categories slave labor graphicscompanies based in san jose californiacompanies established in 19861986 establishments in californiacomic book publishing companies of the united stateshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from august 2007articles with unsourced statements from february 2007 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 deutschfran ais portugu s edit links this page was last modified on 3 february 2016 at 19 45 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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