Company lists · Data refreshed September 2026
Top 25 Independent comic publishers worldwide
RevenueBase identified 484 independent comic publishers worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 4,240 professional contacts across them, including 425 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and Paris the largest hub.
This list covers independent comic 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 independent comic 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 independent comic 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 | 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. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 116 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 88 contacts → | ||||
Strong 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. | |||||
| 8 | 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. | |||||
| 9 | 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. | |||||
| 10 | 46 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 11 | 43 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 12 | 42 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 13 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Steinkis Groupe est un groupe d’édition indépendant, fondé en 2011 par Moïse Kissous.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For over 40 years, Fantagraphics Books has published the very best comics and graphic novels that the medium has to offer.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 37 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our mission at Scout Comics and Entertainment is to guide you through the vast world of multimedia, discovering exceptional talent and epic stories that will inspire you to…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 33 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Les collections phares de Petit à Petit réinventent la découverte culturelle avec le concept du Docu-BD : une approche visuelle et narrative pour explorer les figures marquantes…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 32 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Recently dubbed the “Hottest brand in music” by Forbes, Z2 has quickly become the premier destination for authentic graphic novels and collectibles, created in partnership with…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From its beginnings, Humanoids has embodied creative innovation, a fiercely independent spirit, and a drive to break new ground.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 20 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “LA BOITE A BULLES est un éditeur indépendant de bandes dessinées avec une ligne éditoriale ancrée dans le réel, l'intime, le témoignage, le documentaire, le militantisme, la…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 19 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Star Comics nasce a pochi chilometri da Perugia, grazie alla visione dell’editore Giovanni Bovini.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 18 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “It is night-time in the forest.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 17 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “DSTLRY is a next-generation comics publisher and physical-digital collectibles company that redefines creator-owned comic books for consumers worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 16 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Source Point Press publishes books, comic books, and graphic novels.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 15 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Futuropolis, c’est une bande dessinée d’auteurs pour comprendre le monde, l'histoire, les savoirs, les arts & la littérature.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 20, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 13 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Publisher of the world's most gifted cartoonists and their comics & graphic novels.” 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: independent comic 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 independent comic publishers.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of independent comic publishers, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name independent comic 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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Independent comic 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 independent comic 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 independent comic publishers are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “independent comic 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 independent comic 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 independent comic 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, 425 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.
Independent comic publishers by location
1 lists · largest firstEvery Independent comic 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 independent comic 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 independent comic publishers are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 484 independent comic 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 independent comic publishers?
The United States leads with 163 companies. Every independent comic publishers list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most independent comic publishers?
Paris leads with 14 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (13) and New York (13).
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 425 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 484 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.