Black Eye Productions

Infobox Company
company_name = Black Eye Productions
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company_type = Comic publisher
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foundation = 1992
founder = Michel Vrana
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location = Montreal, Quebec
industry = Comics
homepage = [http://www.blackeye.com www.BlackEye.com]

Black Eye Productions (also called Black Eye Books) was a short-lived but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was known as a publisher of artfully designed alternative comics and graphic novels, most of whose cartoonists have gone on to successful careers with fellow Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly. In fact, Vrana still acts as Drawn and Quarterly's exclusive outside design consultant. [ [http://www.cartoonstudies.org/faculty.html Michel Vrana's bio on the faculty page at The Center for Cartoon Studies website.] Retrieved July 30, 2008.]

Black Eye acted as a comic book publisher from 1992 to 1998, when Vrana turned the business into a design company.

Publications

Ongoing titles and limited series

* "Atomic City Tales" vol. 1 (Jay Stephens, 1994–1995)
* "Berlin" (Jason Lutes, 1996–1998)
* "Dear Julia" 4 issues (Brian Biggs, 1996-1997)
* "The Land of Nod" vol. 1 (Jay Stephens, 1996–1997)
*"Pickle" (Dylan Horrocks, 1992-1997)
* The Sands (Tom Hart, 1996–1997)
* "Sin Comics" (Jay Stephens, 1993–1994)
*"Sputnik" (anthology, 1993–1994)

Graphic novels/trade paperbacks

* "Atomic City Tales" (Jay Stephens, 1994)
* "Black Candy" (Matt Madden, 1998) ISBN 978-0969887461
* "A Complete Lowlife" (Ed Brubaker, 1997)
*"Dance Me Outside: The Illustrated Screenplay" (Nick Craine, 1994) ISBN 978-0969887409
* "Hicksville" (Dylan Horrocks, 1998)
* "Human Remains" (Darren Raye & Sean Scoffield, 1994)
* "Jar of Fools" (Jason Lutes, 1995)
* "The Land of Nod Treasury" (Jay Stephens, 1994)
* "The Sands: a Picture Story" (Tom Hart, 1998) ISBN 978-0969887485

Cartoonists associated with Black Eye

*Brian Biggs
*Ed Brubaker
*Nick Craine
*Tom Hart
*Dylan Horrocks
*Jason Lutes
*Matt Madden
* Darren Raye
* Sean Scoffield
*Jay Stephens

Notes

Sources

* "Black Eye Rolls with the Punches: Publisher Vrana Shifts Company Focus Following Turbulent Period," "The Comics Journal" no. 203 (Apr. 1998), p. 18-19.

External links

* [http://www.blackeye.com Black Eye Design website]

* [http://web.archive.org/web/19961030090356/http://www.blackeye.com/ Black Eye Productions website on archive.org]