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Top 25 Graphic novel publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 635 graphic novel publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 7,253 professional contacts across them, including 1,115 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers graphic novel publishers worldwide, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 20, 2026. Country and city lists for graphic novel publishers follow the table.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest graphic novel publishers worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 842 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DC, part of Warner Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 400 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DARK HORSE COMICS, LLC Founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson, behind the concept of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals, Dark Horse Comics has grown to become…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 307 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, VIZ Media, LLC (VIZ Media) is one of the most comprehensive and innovative companies in the field of manga (graphic novel) publishing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 208 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Diamond Comic Distributors (DCD) is at the nexus of comics and pop culture.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 180 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Le Groupe Delcourt se positionne comme un groupe d’édition indépendant de Bandes Dessinées, Comics, Mangas et Littérature avec un CA PPHT proche de 110 millions d’euros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Image Comics is a comic book and graphic novel publisher founded in 1992 by a collective of best-selling artists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 148 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Norma Editorial, fundada en 1977, es una empresa líder en la edición de cómics y libros ilustrados en lengua española.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 133 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded by Ross Richie in 2005, Diamond Gem Award-winning “Best Publisher” BOOM!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We are part of global publisher Simon & Schuster.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Yen Press, LLC is a joint venture between Kadokawa Corporation and Hachette Book Group, dedicated to publishing manga and graphic novels for adults and young readers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 104 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “DYNAMITE was founded in 2004 and is home to many best-selling properties, including The Boys, The Shadow, Warlord of Mars, Game of Thrones, SEAL Team Six and more!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 97 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “WPG Uitgevers België is onderdeel van WPG Uitgevers en geeft onderdak aan uitgeverij Manteau, De Bezige Bij Antwerpen en Standaard Uitgeverij.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We Are: Mavericks Since coming onto the scene in 2011, Entangled has racked up the accolades-from New York Times bestsellers to starred reviews to Best Of lists.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 95 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MAKMA is a comic book studio.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Mad Cave Studios, established in 2014, is an independent publisher committed to providing worldwide entertainment across an array of genres.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Editeur de BD et Mangas.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Hugo Publishing, une maison d’éditeurs!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 79 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Éditeur de mangas depuis Pika Edition est aujourd'hui un des leaders du marché de la bande dessinée japonaise en France.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 74 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Founded in 1997, Oni Press has a 25-year history as one of the industry’s most respected and acclaimed publishers of award-winning comic books and graphic novels with titles…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Créé en 1997 par Olivier Sulpice, Bamboo Édition compte plus de 300 titres à son catalogue.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Tunué is among the leading publishing houses in Italy in its field, it publishes graphic novels for kids and grown-ups, illustrated books, essays and novels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 50 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Midtown Comics opened its first shop in 1997, and is now the industry’s leading retailer of comic books, graphic novels, and manga, with its online store as well as three landmark…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Papercutz is dedicated to publishing great graphic novels for all ages.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Archie Comics brand is one of the most successful and longest running comic book lines in the history of the industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Macmillan's graphic novel house, home to a worldwide talent pool and offering works for readers of every age.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: graphic novel publishers. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names graphic novel publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of graphic novel publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name graphic novel publishers. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Graphic novel publishers worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 20, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among graphic novel publishers, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for graphic novel publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “graphic novel publishers”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names graphic novel publishers), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among graphic novel publishers, and records with no verified work email.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,115 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 20, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Graphic novel publishers by location
2 lists · largest firstEvery Graphic novel publishers list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names graphic novel publishers, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many graphic novel publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 635 graphic novel publishers worldwide as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
DC Comics, headquartered in Burbank, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most graphic novel publishers?
The United States leads with 168 companies, followed by France (60). Every graphic novel publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most graphic novel publishers?
Paris leads with 25 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (16) and New York (15).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,115 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 635 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 20, 2026.
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About this data
RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.