Comiculture Information

Comiculture is many things. It is this website; an online home to a group of comic book pros. It is a publishing imprint for a line of original comics and graphic novels. And, in the words of one reviewer, it is "the best comics anthology you've never heard of!" A magazine featuring comics stories, articles and interviews related to comics and pop culture. The folks responsible for Comiculture share are based in Los Angeles and call themselves Mad Science Media. Mad Science Media is a collective of comics professionals who have been collaborating since 1996. Individually, each "Scientist," has been working in and around the comics industry for much longer than that. The core group originally met while working on staff in Marvel Comics' Editorial and Production departments in the late '80's and early '90's. Years later, fate conspired to bring these four friends together in Los Angeles, where they founded the studio to develop new projects. The four founders were Steve Buccellato, Rob Tokar, Don Hudson and Marc Siry. In the beginning, Mad Science Media acted as service providers, lending their talents to projects published by most of the major comics publishers (Marvel Comics, DC, Image, Dark Horse, etc), as well as non-comics related clients (Disney, Mattel, Warner Bros., Sony Animation, FoxKids.com, Nickelodeon, and United Media). In fact, Comiculture Magazine was originally concieved as a proposal for Marvel Comics back in 1997 under a different title. The pitch was simple: "Heavy Metal meets Spy Magazine" or "Epic Illustrated meets Maxim." The proposal was met with enthusiasm by the Editor-in-Chief, but it never got going. In 2001 Steve Buccellato and his studio decided to throw caution to the wind and publish the magazine on their own. They Joined with other comics pros (like Klaus Janson, David Wohl, Ben Raab and Walt Simonson to name a few) to develop several original creator-owned properties and leaped into the world of small-press publishing. Drawing upon years and years of collective experience in ...