russell uttley neil googe headquarters wiltshire united kingdom key people eddie deighton jon sloan products comics website official website com.x is a british comic publishing company . contents 1 history 1.1 2000 2002 1.2 2003 2004 1.3 2008 2 titles 3 notes 4 references 5 external links history edit 2000 2002 edit com.x was founded in 2000 by eddie deighton russell uttley and neil googe . deighton later described how the group came together in 1999 neil originally came for an interview as a designer at the design agency russell and myself ran but as soon as we saw in his portfolio that neil had trained as a comic artist and had worked on 2000ad we ended up talking for about 4 hours about comics and the industry in general . by the time we finished we felt that neil s talent would have gone to waste if we d taken him on as a designer so we decided instead to propose to our client konami that we should work with neil on a graphic novel for the computer game silent hill . they felt it would be a cool thing to do so neil came on board and we began developing the project . very quickly we found that we all got on really well and by about the third week of working together we felt we had a lot to contribute to the comic industry in terms of enthusiasm and creativity . 1 the company published a number of titles in the following couple of years like cla war by rob williams and trevor hairsine 2 3 puncture by uttley and ben oliver 4 razorjack by john higgins 5 and bazooka jules by googe . 6 rob williams suggested that the relatively greater impact com.x had on the american publishing companies was it was purely the american format and the attention we received from the u.s. comic press . i just think com.x s books talked to the american publishers in their own language they looked and read like u.s. books so hey it s not that big a leap for american editors to see us working in american books . 7 the downside of this for the company was that their artists like trevor hairsine 8 ben oliver joshua middleton 9 and neil googe were snapped up by marvel and dc . 7 they ran into bigger problems in 2002 when their offices were burgled 10 and it took them time to recover . 11 other named projects like battle raven six by antony johnston 12 were never published and the company went quiet for over a year . 2003 2004 edit the second phase of the company s activity took place in 2003 and 2004 . 13 the first three issues of cla war were collected into a trade paperback in 2003 14 15 and the series was finished in 2004 with new artist travel foreman . 16 17 however when interviewed in 2004 googe said he did not feel the company had fully returned we have had a few bits out this year cla war was finished as was puncture and we had the last american graphic novel ... but as a fully functioning publisher ... well no the simple fact is we underestimated what it would take ... and enthusiasm only gets you so far . we never really had that much cash and so when the big guns came knocking for the likes of trev and josh with their promise of great projects we just couldn t compete . ... so com.x will continue to chase the deals it s already looking at as for the comics i like to think of it as lying dormant until such a time as it can return properly . 6 other titles that were announced as returning but never appeared include bazooka jules with new artist lesean thomas 18 19 and thomas own cannon busters . 20 2008 edit the company returned fully to comics publishing in 2008 led by eddie deighton and business partner benjamin shahrabani with a more sustainable business model . 1 to avoid delays in the releasing of series deighton said that o ur publishing model at least for the time being is going to focus on graphic novel format collected editions complete story arcs etc. 21 this included the release of new original graphic novel path by gregory baldwin 1 along with the collection of razorjack 5 22 and cla war . 3 23 then they will roll out other titles including forty five written by andi ewington 24 with forty five comics artists 25 26 a softcover collection of cla war and another creator owned comic . 21 titles edit titles published include babble by writer lee robson with art by bryan coyle bazooka jules by neil googe bluespear by writer eddie deighton andi ewington with art by cosmo white cla war by writer rob williams with art by trevor hairsine travel foreman . coloured by len o grady codename babetool by writer jose luis gaitan with art by walter taborda duppy 78 by writer casey seijas with art by amancay nahuelpan . coloured by daniel warner forty five by writer andi ewington with art by various artists the last american by writers alan grant john wagner with art by mike mcmahon monster myths by john lupo avanti n jin by writer guy haley with art by dan boultwood . coloured by len o grady o r e by writer eddie deighton and jim alexander path by gregory baldwin primal by writer russell uttley with art by joshua middleton ben oliver puncture by writer russell uttley with art by ben oliver razorjack by john higgins seeds by ross mackintosh sky between branches by joshua middleton notes edit a b c com.x s back talking to eddie deighton & benjamin shahrabani newsarama april 16 2008 cla act sequential tart january 2002 a b finally collected rob williams talks cla war newsarama april 2 2009 the final puncture russ uttley on com.x s puncture newsarama october 13 2003 a b a very personal vision john higgins on razorjack newsarama april 7 2009 a b neil googe talking com.x majestic & more newsarama december 27 2004 a b hanly gavin rob williams interview 2000 ad review 6 june 2005 trevor hairsine s captain america with cla comicon.com december 18 2002 middleton exclusive with marvel newsarama april 1 2003 com.x office burglarized ; currently assessing extent of damages and losses comics bulletin september 2002 a com.x update newsarama december 11 2002 creepy curves sequential tart july 2001 com.x s act together titles to return in march newsarama december 4 2003 com.x announces cla war trade n jin newsarama april 30 2003 cla war s rob williams entertains you comics bulletin december 11 2003 cla war returns with a new artist newsarama june 23 2003 the ongoing war a preview & update on cla war newsarama march 25 2004 bazooka jules returns with lesean thomas newsarama september 2 2003 bazooka jules there and back again for lesean thomas newsarama january 26 2004 lesean thomas cannon busters lands at com.x newsarama november 14 2003 a b deighton on the return of com.x comicon.com april 9 2009 21 questions with john higgins mindless ones march 9 2009 cla war & the resurrection of com.x comic book resources march 12 2009 mcintire andrew november 11 2009 . tfaw.com interviews andi ewington writer of 45 from com.x . tfaw.com . retrieved january 6 2010 . oliver andy september 28 2009 . stars on 45 . broken frontier . retrieved october 10 2009 . hogan john . behind forty five a talk with andi ewington . graphic novel reporter . retrieved october 10 2009 . references edit com.x at the grand comics database com.x at the comic book db external links edit official website official facebook page official twitter retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title com.x & oldid 673497415 categories comic book publishing companies of the united kingdompublishing companies established in 20002000 establishments in the united kingdom 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 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