Avatar Press is an independent American publisher of comic books, founded in 1996 by William A. Christensen, and based in Rantoul, Illinois. Avatar Press is most notable for publishing "Bad Girl" comics such as Pandora, Hellina, Lookers, The Ravening, and Brian Pulido's Lady Death.
Currently, Avatar publishes several ongoing series. They have a strong web presence, anchored by Warren Ellis' FreakAngels webcomic, as well as the comics news site Bleeding Cool, helmed by Rich Johnston.
Publisher Christensen had been a freelance contributor to Wizard magazine before founding Avatar. The company initially published only mini-series. They subsequently expanded to other formats.
As part of an effort to expand beyond their reputation as a bad girl publisher, it offered a number of noted creators an opportunity to publish creator-owned books with no content restrictions whatsoever. Among the creators to take them up on their offer were Frank Miller, Warren Ellis, Alan Moore, and Garth Ennis.
Lately, the company has taken to licensed comic book adaptations of famous sci-fi and horror shows from movies and television, such as RoboCop, Night of the Living Dead, and Friday the 13th.
Pandora (Avatar's flagship character)
Hellina
Nira-X Cyberangel (Bill Maus)
William Tucci's Shi
The Ravening
Lookers
Mike Deodato's Jade Warriors
Rob Liefeld's Avengelyne, Glory, and The Coven
Marat Mychael's Demonslayer
Tim Vigil's Webwitch
Brian Pulido's Lady Death (of Chaos Comics fame), Belladonna, War Angel, Unholy, and Gypsy
Medieval Lady Death
Everette Hartsoe's Razor
Jungle Fantasy, starring Fauna from the Threshold series' "Fauna, Jungle Girl"
Twilight, which, along with Twilight: Live Wire, was reprinted in Twilight: Raw
Mike Wolfer's Widow
Jamie Delano's Narcopolis and Rawbone
Warren Ellis:
Aetheric Mechanics
Anna Mercury
Apparat
Atmospherics
Bad Signal
Bad World
Blackgas
Black Summer
Captain Swing and the Electrical Pirates of Cindery Island
Crécy
Dark Blue
Doktor Sleepless
Frankenstein's Womb
FreakAngels
Gravel
Ilium
Ignition City
No Hero
Scars
Supergod
Wolfskin
Garth Ennis:
303
Chronicles of Wormwood
Crossed
Dicks
Red Rover Charlie
Stitched
Streets of Glory
Christos Gage' Absolution
Kieron Gillen's The Heat and Über
Steven Grant's My Flesh is Cool and Mortal Souls
Jenni Gregory's Dreamwalker
Rich Johnston's Rich Johnston's Holed Up
David Lapham:
Caligula
Dan the Unharmable
Ferals
Mark Millar's The Unfunnies
Alan Moore's Neonomicon and Providence
Eric Powell's The Goon
Zak Penn's Hero Worship
John A. Russo's Escape of the Living Dead
Tim Vigil:
Faust
Cuda: An Age of Metal and Magic
Webwitch
Jonathan Hickman's God Is Dead
Frank Miller's RoboCop
Stargate
Species
Friday the 13th
A Nightmare on Elm Street
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre
George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead
Alan Moore:
Another Suburban Romance
The Courtyard
The Courtyard Companion
Glory
Hypothetical Lizard
Light of Thy Countenance
Magic Words
Nightjar
A Small Killing
Writing for Comics
Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths
Fashion Beast
Max Brooks:
The Extinction Parade
Joe R. Lansdale:
The Drive-in
By Bizarre Hands
On the Far Side With Dead Folks
George R. R. Martin:
Fevre Dream
The Skin Trade
Stargate, both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis as Avatar 1999-2016-17
