Publisher List
Read-only publisher endpoints for the public v2 API surface.
GET /api/v2/publishers/?format=api&page=171
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Eggers Co.", "year_began": 1922, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-09-03T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:39Z" }, { "id": 12245, "name": "John Hankiewicz", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://hankiewicz.blogspot.com/", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-08-05T05:04:05Z", "modified": "2017-08-05T06:01:13Z" }, { "id": 12514, "name": "John Holland", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://johnfholland.net/", "notes": "Small self-publisher", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-09-18T14:59:29Z", "modified": "2017-10-07T19:32:57Z" }, { "id": 3853, "name": "John Holmvall", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": 0, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzinutgivare; Robertsfors", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-06-25T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:39Z" }, { "id": 15936, "name": "John J. Perez", "year_began": 2020, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-03-18T07:12:40Z", "modified": "2023-01-04T03:35:13Z" }, { "id": 10788, "name": "John Jacobs Evangelistic Association", "year_began": 1991, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-01-26T19:09:19Z", "modified": "2026-08-20T14:18:38Z" }, { "id": 3885, "name": "John Johansson", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": 0, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzinutgivare; Linneryd", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-06-26T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:39Z" }, { "id": 13254, "name": "John Kappee", "year_began": 1949, "year_ended": 1949, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-07-19T19:15:45Z", "modified": "2018-07-26T15:19:34Z" }, { "id": 4413, "name": "John Lodder", "year_began": 1978, "year_ended": 1978, "country": "ca", "url": "", "notes": "Based in the Yukon.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2008-01-28T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 4289, "name": "John MacLeod", "year_began": 1985, "year_ended": null, "country": "ca", "url": "", "notes": "Self-publisher of photocopied mini-comics.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 10, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2008-01-04T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 14983, "name": "John Martin's House", "year_began": 1912, "year_ended": 1947, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Known to have been publishing under this name at least as early as 1912, at least as late as 1945. John Martin (pseudonym for Morgan van Roorbach Shepard) died in 1947.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-01-17T01:47:45Z", "modified": "2020-01-17T03:10:30Z" }, { "id": 19437, "name": "John Maybury", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2026-02-24T13:55:26Z", "modified": "2026-02-24T19:29:26Z" }, { "id": 18154, "name": "John Muller", "year_began": 1998, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://itstoohardtothinkofagoodname.com", "notes": "Self-published comics by writer-artist John Muller. Comic books that he has published include \"Uncanny Action\" and \"Western Star.\"", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-03-11T16:36:01Z", "modified": "2024-03-12T05:22:54Z" }, { "id": 9251, "name": "John Murray Illustration", "year_began": 1994, "year_ended": 1994, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "I have one comic from this publisher and it is probably the ony one ever printed so I just opened and closed the publisher on the same year.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-06-12T15:55:16Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 4583, "name": "John Oster Manufacturing Co.", "year_began": 1955, "year_ended": 1955, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2008-04-28T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2020-04-17T03:49:51Z" }, { "id": 11029, "name": "John Patterson", "year_began": 1958, "year_ended": 1958, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-05-04T04:21:32Z", "modified": "2016-11-23T05:46:46Z" }, { "id": 6189, "name": "John Porcellino and Joe Chiappetta", "year_began": 1997, "year_ended": 1997, "country": "us", "url": "http://www.wraithspace.com/sillydaddy", "notes": "This publisher was the result of cooperation between separate publishers \"John Porcellino / King-Cat\" and \"Joe Chiappetta\" to publish comics featuring both of their work.\r\n", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-04-18T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 11009, "name": "John R. 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Manning", "year_began": 1957, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-11-24T02:47:52Z", "modified": "2018-11-24T14:37:52Z" }, { "id": 8110, "name": "John Sands", "year_began": 1837, "year_ended": 1996, "country": "au", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-07-25T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2018-10-12T12:28:04Z" }, { "id": 14920, "name": "John Severson", "year_began": 1960, "year_ended": 1971, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Founder of Surfer magazine. The publisher name changed to Surfer Publications after he sold the company to Better Living, Inc. in the early seventies.", "series_count": 4, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 4, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-12-09T09:32:03Z", "modified": "2019-12-29T07:56:29Z" }, { "id": 17814, "name": "John Simmons", "year_began": 2020, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Independent publisher utilizing crowdfunding campaigns.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-09-23T19:07:44Z", "modified": "2023-09-26T19:31:07Z" }, { "id": 8186, "name": "John Watson & Company", "year_began": 1824, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 17, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-08-10T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2021-06-20T21:50:33Z" }, { "id": 15894, "name": "John Weatherhill, Inc.", "year_began": 1966, "year_ended": 1973, "country": "jp", "url": "", "notes": "English-language publisher based in Tokyo.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-02-28T13:29:38Z", "modified": "2021-02-28T15:35:28Z" }, { "id": 1057, "name": "John Zawadzki", "year_began": 1978, "year_ended": 1979, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2001-05-07T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2022-06-22T15:45:08Z" }, { "id": 9385, "name": "John-Paul Kamath", "year_began": 2006, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 7, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-08-20T19:57:03Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 5660, "name": "Johnny Achziger and Merle Derrick", "year_began": 1973, "year_ended": 1973, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-12-14T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 3764, "name": "Johnny Benjaminsson", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": 0, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare, Borås", "series_count": 5, "issue_count": 9, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-06-25T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 5334, "name": "Johnny Johansson", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare, Borås", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-08-03T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 5278, "name": "Johnny Ragnarsson", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "", "notes": "Fanzineutgivare, Borlänge", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-07-12T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 19683, "name": "Johnny Robinson", "year_began": 1980, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Was distributed by Bud Plant, Inc", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2026-09-14T06:22:29Z", "modified": "2026-09-15T21:08:32Z" }, { "id": 7104, "name": "Johnny Ryan", "year_began": 1994, "year_ended": 1998, "country": "us", "url": "http://johnnyryan.com/", "notes": "Volume II of this series was published by Fantagraphics", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 10, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-12-30T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:02:40Z" }, { "id": 13252, "name": "Johnny van Wolferen", "year_began": 1947, "year_ended": 1947, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "Gevestigd in Amsterdam. Van Wolferen was tevens zelf tekenaar, naast uitgever.", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 8, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-07-19T19:15:34Z", "modified": "2018-07-22T18:02:44Z" }, { "id": 16481, "name": "Johnny's Mind Comics", "year_began": 2021, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Self-publishing for Kentucky-based cartoonist John Celestri.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2022-01-19T15:54:33Z", "modified": "2022-01-20T17:57:48Z" }, { "id": 17630, "name": "Johns Hopkins University Press", "year_began": 1881, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://www.press.jhu.edu", "notes": "2715 North Charles Street, Baltimore, Maryland 21218", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-05-24T07:05:14Z", "modified": "2023-06-01T05:54:17Z" }, { "id": 17065, "name": "Johnson Publishing Company", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://johnsonpublishing.com/", "notes": "Founded by John H. Johnson.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2022-09-01T04:34:44Z", "modified": "2022-09-01T17:13:06Z" }, { "id": 12271, "name": "Johnston", "year_began": 1826, "year_ended": 1865, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "David Claypoole Johnston, engraver's office in Boston, publisher of nine issues of his 4-page annual comic \"Scraps\" between 1829 and 1849.", "series_count": 5, "issue_count": 12, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-08-26T15:29:22Z", "modified": "2018-07-13T18:32:14Z" }, { "id": 4620, "name": "Johnstone & Cushing", "year_began": 1936, "year_ended": 1962, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Addresses: Commerce Building at 155 East 44th Street, New York 17, N. Y., (phone) MUrray hill 2-6236 (circa 1936 to the 1950s); \r\n292 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N. Y., (phone) Lexington 2-1980 (the 1950s); and\r\n137 E. 57th St. New York, N. 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