BOOM! Studios publishes original comic books and graphic novels across four imprints (BOOM! Studios, BOOM! Box, KaBOOM!, and Archaia) and licenses established properties such as WWE and Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. The company emphasizes creator-partnerships that share ownership of original series. BOOM! has been the fastest-growing company in the comic book Direct Market over the past four years and has won multiple industry honors, including Gem Awards, Eisner and Harvey Awards, GLAAD Media Awards, and New York Times best-selling graphic novels. It holds first-look film and television relationships with 20th Century Fox Film and 20th Century Fox Television. The publisher plans to use new resources to greenlight more original series, deepen distribution relationships, and widen marketing reach. BOOM! was founded in 2005. Boom! Studios is an online marketplace for original comic books and graphic novels that lets artists upload their work and offers a buy-and-sell option for comics. The Los Angeles company uses social networks such as MySpace to promote artists and credits tens of thousands of fans for driving print sales. It negotiates to give independent creators a share of proceeds from sales and aims to be an alternate path for storytellers to create hits that can move into movies and video games. The site hired veteran editor-in-chief Mark Waid and features work by established writers such as David DiGilio. Boom! Studios reported a successful January when North Wind—a five-part mini-series—sold out at brick-and-mortar retailers in ten days and went to a second printing despite being available free online. Following that traction the company has taken a $600,000 investment from DFJ Frontier and the Gideon Hixon Fund.

Total raised

$1M

Funding rounds

2

Latest round

Equity

Latest activity

Feb 2008