Publisher List
Read-only publisher endpoints for the public v2 API surface.
GET /api/v2/publishers/?format=api&page=21
{ "count": 17690, "next": "https://beta.comics.org/api/v2/publishers/?format=api&page=22", "previous": "https://beta.comics.org/api/v2/publishers/?format=api&page=20", "results": [ { "id": 15626, "name": "Apprentissage Illimité Inc", "year_began": 2002, "year_ended": null, "country": "ca", "url": "https://apprentissage.mb.ca/", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-10-13T18:00:03Z", "modified": "2020-10-13T18:02:50Z" }, { "id": 6306, "name": "Approbation Comics", "year_began": 2002, "year_ended": 2005, "country": "us", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20230404001605/http://www.approbationcomics.com/", "notes": "Louisville, KY publisher.", "series_count": 10, "issue_count": 71, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-05-13T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-05-14T14:12:52Z" }, { "id": 5708, "name": "Apraxia Comix", "year_began": 1993, "year_ended": 1993, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Based in San Francisco.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-01-05T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:18Z" }, { "id": 8150, "name": "APS Physics", "year_began": 2010, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://aps.org/", "notes": "Publisher for the American Physical Society", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 11, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-07-31T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2022-05-09T13:03:17Z" }, { "id": 4959, "name": "Apsco", "year_began": 1961, "year_ended": 1961, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-03-26T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:18Z" }, { "id": 18023, "name": "Aqua Lumina éditions", "year_began": 2009, "year_ended": 2012, "country": "fr", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 4, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-01-11T14:55:44Z", "modified": "2024-01-11T16:30:42Z" }, { "id": 5766, "name": "Aquafin n.v.", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "be", "url": "", "notes": "Waterzuiveraar; geeft momenteel geen stripboeken uit.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-01-30T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:18Z" }, { "id": 7520, "name": "Aquarium Pharmaceuticals", "year_began": 1997, "year_ended": 1997, "country": "us", "url": "https://www.aquariumpharm.com/", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2011-09-03T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2021-08-01T22:42:28Z" }, { "id": 8084, "name": "Ar-Zak/The Arts Lab Press", "year_began": 1976, "year_ended": 1979, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "Both names are used, within the indicia; Ar-Zak often features on the covers;\r\nthis publisher is also known as Birmingham Arts Lab, due to its geographic location: \r\n11 Costa Green, Birmingham, B4 7ER, United Kingdom", "series_count": 5, "issue_count": 13, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [ "underground", "Alternative" ], "created": "2012-07-20T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-03-02T13:06:17Z" }, { "id": 15071, "name": "Aranim Media Factory", "year_began": 2006, "year_ended": 2015, "country": "jo", "url": "", "notes": "Company name is reportedly a portmanteau of \"Arab\" and \"anime.\"\r\n\r\nCompany was stifled by the government after one of its titles, Saladin 2100, implied the absence of the ruling family. Company may have resumed production under the name \"Hero-Factor.\" (https://stepfeed.com/jordan-s-suleiman-bakhit-creates-superheroes-to-fight-extremism-stereotypes-7823)\r\n\r\nEarliest mention of Aranim Media Factory is from May 1, 2009: https://www.optimistdaily.com/2009/05/the-making-of-aranim-media-factory-and-emotional-content-comics/\r\nProduction apparently began in 2009/2010:\r\nhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/bruceupbin/2011/07/12/pow-crash-blam-superheroes-vs-arab-extremism/#4ce8d08f95bf", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-02-20T15:04:53Z", "modified": "2020-02-26T21:32:19Z" }, { "id": 19019, "name": "Aranyhal", "year_began": 2002, "year_ended": 2002, "country": "hu", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2025-06-30T00:32:28Z", "modified": "2025-07-01T11:27:08Z" }, { "id": 1658, "name": "Arbeidermagasinet", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": null, "country": "no", "url": "", "notes": "Under krigen skiftet forlaget (bladet) navn til Magasinet For Alle (se denne).", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2002-04-21T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2023-12-08T17:50:46Z" }, { "id": 15588, "name": "Arbeiter Ring Publishing", "year_began": 2011, "year_ended": null, "country": "ca", "url": "https://arpbooks.org/", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-09-27T21:45:25Z", "modified": "2020-09-28T05:20:17Z" }, { "id": 16479, "name": "Arbeitskreis Stadzeichner Verlag", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2022-01-19T02:04:11Z", "modified": "2022-01-19T02:27:22Z" }, { "id": 7044, "name": "Arbejderbevægelsens Skolekontaktudvalg", "year_began": 1988, "year_ended": 1988, "country": "dk", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-11-26T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:18Z" }, { "id": 17052, "name": "Arbitraire", "year_began": 2005, "year_ended": null, "country": "fr", "url": "http://www.arbitraire.fr/actu/", "notes": "", "series_count": 18, "issue_count": 19, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2022-08-27T16:52:39Z", "modified": "2022-08-30T04:55:53Z" }, { "id": 11492, "name": "Arbor Verlag", "year_began": 1991, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-09-30T19:20:52Z", "modified": "2020-10-08T21:18:43Z" }, { "id": 6201, "name": "Arborcides Press", "year_began": 2008, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://www.arborcides.com/", "notes": "Self-publishing for Colorado-based cartoonist Mister V", "series_count": 26, "issue_count": 50, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-04-21T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2021-07-18T19:30:08Z" }, { "id": 3032, "name": "Arboris", "year_began": 1981, "year_ended": null, "country": "nl", "url": "https://www.arboris.nl/", "notes": "Opgericht door Hans van den Boom.\r\n\r\nZusterbedrijf van Dendros.\r\n\r\nOntving in 1991 De Jaarprijs voor Bijzondere Verdiensten van Het Stripschap. \r\n\r\nAdres:\r\nBurgemeester Langmanweg 9\r\n7021 BL Zelhem\r\n\r\nTelefoon: 0314-623798", "series_count": 650, "issue_count": 2512, "brand_count": 2, "indicia_publisher_count": 9, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-06-07T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-08-03T13:57:06Z" }, { "id": 12235, "name": "Arboris; De Boekenhalte", "year_began": 1994, "year_ended": null, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "Samenwerking tussen de uitgever en de stripwinkel.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-07-26T00:44:27Z", "modified": "2017-09-23T18:06:06Z" }, { "id": 11262, "name": "Arboris; Stripwinkel Alex", "year_began": 2002, "year_ended": 2004, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "Samenwerking tussen de Nederlandse uitgever Arboris en de stripwinkel/uitgever Stripwinkel Alex.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-07-25T16:51:52Z", "modified": "2016-07-27T17:47:21Z" }, { "id": 7779, "name": "Arca", "year_began": 1956, "year_ended": 1957, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 48, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-02-11T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:19Z" }, { "id": 2785, "name": "Arcade", "year_began": 2003, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Comic company started by Rob Liefeld and Jimmy Jay of Jay Company Comics.", "series_count": 7, "issue_count": 8, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-02-11T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2023-07-22T21:58:16Z" }, { "id": 13718, "name": "Arcade Publications", "year_began": 1950, "year_ended": 1951, "country": "ph", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 21, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-03-02T16:38:47Z", "modified": "2023-08-06T15:20:41Z" }, { "id": 18245, "name": "Arcade Publishing", "year_began": 2006, "year_ended": 2006, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Arcade Publishing was acquired by Skyhorse Publishing in 2010.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-04-20T15:59:01Z", "modified": "2024-04-21T08:40:43Z" }, { "id": 5756, "name": "Arcadia", "year_began": 1999, "year_ended": null, "country": "be", "url": "http://www.arcadiastrips.be/", "notes": "", "series_count": 29, "issue_count": 130, "brand_count": 4, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-01-30T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-05-31T10:32:15Z" }, { "id": 5691, "name": "Arcadia Publications", "year_began": 1986, "year_ended": 1990, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Greenfield, WI", "series_count": 7, "issue_count": 12, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-12-21T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:19Z" }, { "id": 3161, "name": "Arcana", "year_began": 2003, "year_ended": null, "country": "ca", "url": "http://www.arcanacomics.com", "notes": "Legal name is Arcana Studio Inc. Founded by Coquitlam, British Columbia schoolteacher Sean O'Reilly.", "series_count": 108, "issue_count": 194, "brand_count": 3, "indicia_publisher_count": 4, "keywords": [], "created": "2006-09-09T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-06-17T22:04:24Z" }, { "id": 1954, "name": "Arcane Comics", "year_began": 1999, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 10, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2003-02-14T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2023-09-07T04:37:14Z" }, { "id": 18738, "name": "Arcane Comix", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": 1990, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Steve Niles' self-publishing studio in the late 1980s-early 1990s. Unrelated to Arcane Comics.", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2025-01-24T20:03:41Z", "modified": "2025-09-02T00:37:13Z" }, { "id": 14769, "name": "Archa", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "sk", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-09-11T05:29:41Z", "modified": "2019-09-11T08:43:40Z" }, { "id": 2063, "name": "Archaia Studios Press", "year_began": 2003, "year_ended": 2013, "country": "us", "url": "http://www.aspcomics.com/", "notes": "The company was purchased by Boom Entertainment in 2013 and their editorial staffs were consolidated into one staff. It continued as an indicia publisher and brand of Boom from late 2013 on.", "series_count": 126, "issue_count": 270, "brand_count": 2, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2004-10-08T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-07-17T22:12:32Z" }, { "id": 1944, "name": "Archangel Studios", "year_began": 2001, "year_ended": 2009, "country": "us", "url": "http://www.theredstar.com/", "notes": "", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 14, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2002-12-19T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-04-20T15:35:43Z" }, { "id": 18524, "name": "Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "The Archbishop Fulton John Sheen Foundation\r\n419 NE Madison Ave\r\nPeoria, IL 6160", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-10-08T03:04:06Z", "modified": "2024-10-08T04:00:23Z" }, { "id": 10641, "name": "Arche Verlag", "year_began": 1944, "year_ended": null, "country": "ch", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2015-11-24T17:54:26Z", "modified": "2019-08-29T17:25:22Z" }, { "id": 8471, "name": "Archer", "year_began": 1955, "year_ended": 1960, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 4, "issue_count": 24, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2013-01-01T15:59:40Z", "modified": "2022-06-29T20:18:30Z" }, { "id": 10875, "name": "Archer Books & Games", "year_began": 1995, "year_ended": 1997, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-02-25T05:08:09Z", "modified": "2025-08-02T14:23:39Z" }, { "id": 14203, "name": "Archer Comics", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": 1987, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "712 Adams St., Sturgis, KY 42459, USA. Telephone (502) 333-4096.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-05-13T05:50:27Z", "modified": "2019-05-13T07:06:30Z" }, { "id": 71, "name": "Archie", "year_began": 1939, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://archiecomics.com/", "notes": "Early issues of M. L. J. Magazines' Blue Ribbon Comics and Top Notch Comics were produced by Chesler Publications with the owner Harry 'A' Chesler acting as editor. In 1938 Abner J. Sundell was employed as editor by The Blue Ribbon Group. The Blue Ribbon Group produced pulp magazines and Louis Silberkleit was publisher. Sundell was almost certainly editor at the beginnings of M. L. J. Magazines. Abner J. Sundell was recorded as editor and managing editor on the Statement of Ownership of October 1st 1940. In April 1941 Sundell left M. L. J. and Harry Shorten became editor. Harry Shorten is recorded as editor on the Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1941. Editor, Harry Shorten and managing editor, John L. Goldwater formally recorded on the Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1942. Editor, John L. Goldwater and managing editor, Harry Shorten recorded on the Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1946 and remained unchanged until Shorten left in 1957. John L. Goldwater, managing editor, recorded on the Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1957. Editor, John L. Goldwater and managing editor, Richard H. Goldwater recorded on the Statement of Ownership for October 1st, 1958 and remained unchanged through 1982.", "series_count": 700, "issue_count": 11992, "brand_count": 10, "indicia_publisher_count": 11, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-09-01T04:42:36Z" }, { "id": 2109, "name": "Archie / Radio Shack", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": 1990, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Radio Shack is a division of Tandy Corp.", "series_count": 9, "issue_count": 9, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2005-02-05T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-01-24T10:11:08Z" }, { "id": 13835, "name": "Archie Publications Pty. Ltd.", "year_began": 1958, "year_ended": 1962, "country": "au", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 47, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-04-04T19:10:29Z", "modified": "2019-04-05T13:37:51Z" }, { "id": 12501, "name": "Archiv der Jugendkulturen", "year_began": 2003, "year_ended": 2015, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "Ab 2015 als Hirnkost Verlag weitergeführt.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-09-07T21:58:42Z", "modified": "2026-07-01T16:34:12Z" }, { "id": 634, "name": "Archival Photography", "year_began": 1990, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:19Z" }, { "id": 2172, "name": "Archival Press", "year_began": 1979, "year_ended": 1979, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 7, "issue_count": 6, "brand_count": 2, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2005-04-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2022-09-02T08:58:56Z" }, { "id": 15601, "name": "Arci", "year_began": 2008, "year_ended": null, "country": "it", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-10-03T17:31:56Z", "modified": "2022-02-05T11:42:12Z" }, { "id": 13077, "name": "Arcimboldo", "year_began": 2007, "year_ended": 2017, "country": "cz", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-04-02T19:04:08Z", "modified": "2019-04-29T17:51:50Z" }, { "id": 1845, "name": "Arclight Press", "year_began": 1998, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 8, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2002-07-31T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:19Z" }, { "id": 3521, "name": "Arclight Publishing", "year_began": 1997, "year_ended": 1997, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-03-26T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2018-01-01T14:38:49Z" }, { "id": 8226, "name": "Arco Publications", "year_began": 1953, "year_ended": 1970, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "Arco Publications, Limited, 10 Fitzroy Street, London, W1", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-08-20T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:19Z" }, { "id": 6510, "name": "Arcomics", "year_began": 1993, "year_ended": 1993, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Elyria, OH publisher.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-05-26T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T19:58:20Z" } ] }