Publisher List
Read-only publisher endpoints for the public v2 API surface.
GET /api/v2/publishers/?format=api&page=327
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Waldheim", "year_began": 1868, "year_ended": 1909, "country": "ahhh", "url": "", "notes": "Verlag von Rudolf von Waldheim.", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-03-09T10:53:35Z", "modified": "2019-11-20T05:48:05Z" }, { "id": 6922, "name": "Verlags Presse Zürich", "year_began": 1971, "year_ended": 1973, "country": "ch", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 24, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-09-04T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:08Z" }, { "id": 11989, "name": "Verlagsanstalt Hermann Klemm", "year_began": 1919, "year_ended": 1960, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-03-18T16:18:23Z", "modified": "2017-10-14T14:43:22Z" }, { "id": 12559, "name": "Verlagsdruckerei Schmidt", "year_began": 1828, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-10-10T14:21:10Z", "modified": "2017-10-10T14:34:44Z" }, { "id": 11238, "name": "Verlagsgesellschaft Schulfernsehen", "year_began": 1970, "year_ended": 2001, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-07-19T04:49:30Z", "modified": "2016-07-19T10:06:50Z" }, { "id": 9614, "name": "Verlagshaus Jacoby & Stuart", "year_began": 2008, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "http://www.jacobystuart.de/", "notes": "", "series_count": 79, "issue_count": 108, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-12-13T19:02:42Z", "modified": "2026-06-02T03:54:40Z" }, { "id": 13941, "name": "Verlagsunion", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "de", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-04-14T16:23:02Z", "modified": "2019-04-14T16:38:23Z" }, { "id": 12442, "name": "Verlies", "year_began": 2000, "year_ended": null, "country": "ch", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-09-02T22:04:38Z", "modified": "2019-04-07T15:53:24Z" }, { "id": 17341, "name": "Vermes", "year_began": 2016, "year_ended": null, "country": "at", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-02-08T17:13:36Z", "modified": "2026-06-10T12:40:28Z" }, { "id": 15849, "name": "Vermin Games", "year_began": 2015, "year_ended": null, "country": "bg", "url": "http://www.vermingames.eu", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2021-02-08T14:09:57Z", "modified": "2021-02-08T15:48:18Z" }, { "id": 9302, "name": "Veronica", "year_began": 1971, "year_ended": null, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 9, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2014-07-10T18:47:17Z", "modified": "2024-06-21T22:38:41Z" }, { "id": 833, "name": "Verotik", "year_began": 1994, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 49, "issue_count": 115, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-04-21T04:26:50Z" }, { "id": 11775, "name": "Verso", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "https://www.versobooks.com/", "notes": "Begun as an imprint of New Left Books in the late seventies. Eventually the parent company took on its name.", "series_count": 10, "issue_count": 11, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-12-27T07:32:38Z", "modified": "2023-10-14T02:20:18Z" }, { "id": 2029, "name": "Vertical", "year_began": 2001, "year_ended": 2021, "country": "us", "url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20201101031436/https://www.readvertical.com/", "notes": "A publisher that was dedicated to translating Japanese works into the English language. They published prose as well as graphic novels.\r\n\r\nOn-sale dates are taken from the publisher's web site or Previews World/Comic List, whichever is earliest.\r\n\r\nKodansha and Dai Nippon Printing acquired a majority stake of the company in 2011. Management was consolidated in 2020, and then completely absorbed into the parent company in 2021 under the new name Kodansha Books. All still-ongoing series were carried over and continued with the same Vertical Comics brand on the book spines.", "series_count": 105, "issue_count": 487, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 3, "keywords": [], "created": "2004-08-02T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2025-11-17T23:45:47Z" }, { "id": 8536, "name": "Vertige Graphic", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": null, "country": "fr", "url": "http://www.vertige-graphic.com/", "notes": "Vertige Graphic est une maison d'édition française de bande dessinée créée en janvier 1987 par Giusti Zuccato, Latino Imparato et Gianni Miriantini. \r\nVertige Graphic développait une activité graphique, en réalisant des affiches, puis des sérigraphies et des port-folios à tirage limité, avec des artistes tels que Hugo Pratt, Alberto Breccia, José Muñoz et Lorenzo Mattotti. À partir de 1993, Vertige Graphic édite ses premiers livres : \"Totemtanz\" de Dino Battaglia, \"Rapport sur les aveugles\" d'Alberto Breccia, \"Le Pavillon dans les dunes\" de Stevenson illustré par Lorenzo Mattotti, \"Lettres d'Afrique\" d'Arthur Rimbaud illustré par Hugo Pratt. \r\nDans les années suivantes, Vertige Graphic développe son catalogue, un peu plus de cent vingt titres publiés depuis 1993, mettant en valeur le genre dit roman graphique et des auteurs étrangers : Breccia, Mattotti, Muñoz, Joe Sacco. Sont publiés également des essais sur la bande dessinée : Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, Jean-Paul Jennequin, Benoît Mouchart. \r\n[Vertige Graphic is a French comic book publishing house created in January 1987 by Giusti Zuccato, Latino Imparato and Gianni Miriantini. \r\nVertige Graphic developed a graphic activity, creating posters, then serigraphs and limited-edition port-folios, with artists such as Hugo Pratt, Alberto Breccia, José Muñoz and Lorenzo Mattotti. From 1993, Vertige Graphic publishes its first books: \"Totemtanz\" by Dino Battaglia, \"Rapport sur les aveugles\" by Alberto Breccia, \"Le Pavillon dans les dunes\" by Stevenson illustrated by Lorenzo Mattotti, \"Lettres d'Afrique\" by Arthur Rimbaud illustrated by Hugo Pratt. \r\nIn the following years, Vertige Graphic expanded its catalogue, a little over one hundred and twenty titles published since 1993, highlighting the genre of graphic novels and foreign authors: Breccia, Mattotti, Muñoz, Joe Sacco. Essays on the comic strip are also published: Will Eisner, Scott McCloud, Jean-Paul Jennequin, Benoît Mouchart.]", "series_count": 104, "issue_count": 151, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2013-01-26T18:42:36Z", "modified": "2024-08-14T17:26:13Z" }, { "id": 7949, "name": "Vertige graphic et Coconino Press", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "fr", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 5, "issue_count": 10, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2012-05-28T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-02-09T18:54:44Z" }, { "id": 5902, "name": "Vertigo förlag", "year_began": 1992, "year_ended": null, "country": "se", "url": "http://www.vertigo.se/", "notes": "Vertigo förlag focuses on classic erotic texts, surrealism, radical thought, gothic literature and extreme romanticism. They have only published comics on rare occassions.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-03-04T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:08Z" }, { "id": 18429, "name": "Very Good Books", "year_began": 2023, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-08-17T17:18:44Z", "modified": "2024-08-17T18:58:37Z" }, { "id": 13336, "name": "Verygraphics", "year_began": 1981, "year_ended": 1996, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-08-18T05:26:58Z", "modified": "2018-08-18T05:26:58Z" }, { "id": 13066, "name": "Veseli četvrtak / Grafart", "year_began": 2008, "year_ended": null, "country": "rs", "url": "http://veselicetvrtak.com/", "notes": "Edicija Veseli četvrtak is the name of the publishing part of Grafart. In most of the issues Grafart is listed as publisher and Edicija Veseli četvrtak is presented just by the emblem.", "series_count": 8, "issue_count": 428, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2018-03-30T15:42:27Z", "modified": "2022-12-27T19:31:31Z" }, { "id": 6347, "name": "Vestforbrænding", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "dk", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-05-18T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 4500, "name": "Veto", "year_began": 1990, "year_ended": 1990, "country": "ca", "url": "", "notes": "Based in Montreal, Quebec.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2008-02-23T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 14217, "name": "Vetropack Straža", "year_began": 2007, "year_ended": 2007, "country": "hr", "url": "", "notes": "Situated in Hum na Sutli, Croatia.", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2019-05-13T19:37:02Z", "modified": "2019-05-13T19:37:02Z" }, { "id": 18343, "name": "Vewin", "year_began": 1978, "year_ended": 1978, "country": "nl", "url": "", "notes": "Gevestigd in Rijswijk.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2024-06-14T20:22:16Z", "modified": "2024-06-17T08:44:12Z" }, { "id": 1671, "name": "VG", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "no", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 4, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2002-04-21T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-05-10T10:43:03Z" }, { "id": 4847, "name": "VG Graphics", "year_began": 0, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2008-12-29T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 6556, "name": "VHD Diffusion", "year_began": 1983, "year_ended": 1996, "country": "br", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 22, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-06-06T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 5367, "name": "Via Lettera", "year_began": 1998, "year_ended": null, "country": "br", "url": "http://www.vialettera.com.br/", "notes": "", "series_count": 10, "issue_count": 15, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-08-28T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2022-04-30T16:21:56Z" }, { "id": 11710, "name": "Viacom International", "year_began": 2014, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 4, "issue_count": 5, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2016-11-29T14:53:34Z", "modified": "2020-11-17T17:58:05Z" }, { "id": 14670, "name": "Vibe Tronxa Comix", "year_began": 2012, "year_ended": null, "country": "br", "url": "https://www.facebook.com/VibeTronxaComix", "notes": "Selo independente de quadrinhos sediado em São Leopoldo - RS, Brasil.", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [ "independente" ], "created": "2019-07-19T22:53:18Z", "modified": "2019-07-19T22:53:18Z" }, { "id": 12811, "name": "Viborg Stiftmuseum", "year_began": 1986, "year_ended": null, "country": "dk", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2017-11-08T14:36:38Z", "modified": "2017-11-08T14:36:38Z" }, { "id": 17668, "name": "Vibulkij", "year_began": null, "year_ended": null, "country": "th", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 6, "issue_count": 77, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-06-22T05:17:30Z", "modified": "2023-10-28T13:27:32Z" }, { "id": 4249, "name": "Vic Herman Productions", "year_began": 1947, "year_ended": 1972, "country": "us", "url": "http://lambiek.net/artists/h/herman_vic.htm", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2007-12-22T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 7122, "name": "Vicar's Raw Balls", "year_began": 1975, "year_ended": 1975, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "Antonio Ghura's only comic published under this name is the first issue of his \"Bogey\" comic.", "series_count": 0, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2011-01-05T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2016-10-28T08:14:15Z" }, { "id": 15235, "name": "Viceroy Comics", "year_began": 2017, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "https://viceroycomics.com/", "notes": "Self-publishing for Colorado-based cartoonist Michael Howe.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-04-23T05:39:31Z", "modified": "2020-04-23T10:08:46Z" }, { "id": 17640, "name": "Vices Press", "year_began": 2014, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "http://vicespress.com", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2023-05-30T13:28:16Z", "modified": "2023-06-03T16:56:57Z" }, { "id": 19607, "name": "Vicious Membrane", "year_began": 2017, "year_ended": null, "country": "ru", "url": "https://vk.com/viciousmembrane", "notes": "", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 0, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2026-07-04T14:19:58Z", "modified": "2026-07-04T19:07:20Z" }, { "id": 15286, "name": "Vicky Leta", "year_began": 2018, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 2, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2020-05-12T17:11:25Z", "modified": "2020-05-12T18:58:23Z" }, { "id": 5031, "name": "Victor Gates", "year_began": 1987, "year_ended": 1989, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "US mini-comic publisher, member of the Pizazz Comics group from 1988 on.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-04-25T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 4962, "name": "Victor Gollancz", "year_began": 1927, "year_ended": null, "country": "gb", "url": "", "notes": "Book publishers not generally associated with comic books.\r\n\r\nFounded by Victor Gollancz (1893 – 1967). In 1989, it was sold to Houghton Mifflin, who sold it to Cassell & Co in 1992. Cassell & Co were sold to Orion in 1998, who turned Gollancz into an imprint specializing in fantasy and science fiction novels.", "series_count": 13, "issue_count": 14, "brand_count": 2, "indicia_publisher_count": 2, "keywords": [], "created": "2009-03-27T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2026-05-12T20:17:30Z" }, { "id": 6949, "name": "Victor Moscoso", "year_began": 1971, "year_ended": 1971, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Distributed by Print Mint.", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-09-27T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:09Z" }, { "id": 194, "name": "Victoria Publishing Company", "year_began": 1948, "year_ended": null, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 4, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "1999-06-15T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2023-05-24T00:52:30Z" }, { "id": 6142, "name": "Victoria University Press", "year_began": 1970, "year_ended": null, "country": "nz", "url": "http://www.victoria.ac.nz/vup/", "notes": "Victoria University Press is associated with Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.", "series_count": 3, "issue_count": 3, "brand_count": 1, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-04-12T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2017-09-29T23:50:51Z" }, { "id": 6196, "name": "Victory Comics", "year_began": 1991, "year_ended": 1991, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "Jamaica, NY publisher", "series_count": 1, "issue_count": 1, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 0, "keywords": [], "created": "2010-04-19T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2015-05-26T20:07:10Z" }, { "id": 2236, "name": "Victory Magazine Corporation", "year_began": 1946, "year_ended": 1947, "country": "us", "url": "", "notes": "", "series_count": 2, "issue_count": 6, "brand_count": 0, "indicia_publisher_count": 1, "keywords": [], "created": "2005-06-04T00:00:00Z", "modified": "2021-03-13T02:02:09Z" } ] }