the icon type comic publisher industry comics founded 2009 founder pj perez headquarters las vegas nevada key people pj perez publisher editor in chief website popgoestheicon.com pop goes the icon or pgti is an independent american comic book publisher based in las vegas nevada . contents 1 company history 2 titles 3 references 4 external links company history edit pop goes the icon started as a blog by las vegas based writer pj perez in 2007 whose topics included comic books and popular culture . after turning over the day to day updating of the blog to fellow las vegas writer jarret keene perez worked in secret to revamp pgti as a boutique publisher of comic books webcomics and other works of pop culture . 1 the blog was relaunched as the new pgti website in april 2009 announcing a forthcoming webcomic by perez called the utopian . 2 the first print comic published by pgti was the utopian 0 a limited edition only 50 copies were produced sampler comic distributed for free at 2009 s san diego comic con international which collected the first 16 pages from the utopian webcomic . 3 the regular print series of the utopian began in the fall of 2009 and continues to publish quarterly presenting collections of the web series alongside previously unpublished material . 4 pgti launched its second title omega comics presents an anthology series modeled after precursors such as the similarly named dark horse presents in february 2010 . published quarterly it features multiple short standalone and episodic stories each issue from underexposed creators of independent comics . 5 in 2014 pgti began publishing san hannibal a pulp crime comic written by dan schkade . 6 the five issue series was named book of the year by comic book blog comic bastards . 7 it was collected into a paperback volume called san hannibal the city of love and fear . 8 titles edit the utopian 2009 present omega comics presents 2010 present tales from the boneyard november 2010 9 tales from fremont street november 2011 10 tales from lost vegas november 2013 11 san hannibal april 2014 january 2015 12 old wounds april 2015 present 13 references edit about pop goes the icon pop goes the icon reboots with new webcomic the utopian utopian creator going guerrilla at comic con the utopian web store omega comics presents brings back the comic anthology series purple prose dan schkade and jd faith s san hannibal goes to print in april review san hannibal 5 san hannibal the city of love and fear collection to hit comic book stores june 10 tales from the boneyard aims to raise funds for vegas valley comic book festival fremont tales what i bought 6 november 2013 trailer time and title announcement san hannibal from batman strikes and dark engine to old wounds external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title pop goes the icon & oldid 743490983 categories companies established in 2009companies based in las vegas 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 9 october 2016 at 22 13 . 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