Editing Joe's Comics

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| name         = Joe's Comics
| image        = [[File:Joe's Comics Logo.jpg|150px]]
| parent       = <br>'''Currently'''<br>[[Image Comics]]<br />[[Studio JMS]]<br />'''Formerly'''<br>[[Top Cow Productions]]
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| founded      = 1998
| founder      = [[J. Michael Straczynski]]
| successor    = 
| country      = [[United States]]
| headquarters = [[Berkeley, California]]
| distribution = 
| keypeople    = [[J. Michael Straczynski]]<br />[[Patricia Tallman]]
| publications = [[Comic book]]s, [[book]]s
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| url          = {{URL|http://studiojms.com/about-joes-comics/}}
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'''Joe's Comics''' is an [[American comic book]] [[imprint (trade name)|imprint]] of [[Image Comics]] run by [[J. Michael Straczynski]]'s [[Studio JMS]] and was originally published as an imprint of [[Top Cow Productions]].<ref name=ds>Hugh Armitage. [http://www.digitalspy.com/comics/news/a393240/comic-con-2012-j-michael-straczynski-relaunches-joes-comics-imprint.html Comic-Con 2012: J Michael Straczynski relaunches Joe's Comics imprint].</ref> As of 2014, key titles in the current line include ''Dream Police'', ''The Book of Lost Souls'', ''Ten Grand'', ''Protectors Inc'', and ''Sidekick''.

==History==

===Top Cow (1998–early 2000s)===
In 1998, Joe’s Comics was established as an imprint publishing Straczynski's comic work including the critically lauded ''[[Midnight Nation]]'' with artist [[Gary Frank (comics)|Gary Frank]], ''[[Rising Stars (comic)|Rising Stars]]'', and ''[[Delicate Creatures]]'', an illustrated fantasy parable.<ref name=ds/>

Straczynski had a falling-out with Top Cow over movie scripts for ''Rising Stars'' in the mid-2000s, and after communication broke down their relationship came to a stand-still. Straczynski held back the final (already written) issues of ''Rising Stars'' until Straczynski and Top Cow finally came to an agreement after a nearly two-year hiatus. Straczynski subsequently took ''[[Dream Police (comics)|Dream Police]]'' to [[Marvel Comics]]'s Icon imprint, which also published his ''[[The Book of Lost Souls]]''. Several ''Rising Stars'' spin-offs not written by Straczynski were published under Joe's Comics through 2005.<ref name=ds/>

===Image (2012–present)===
The imprint was dormant until Straczynski announced at the 2012 [[San Diego Comic-Con International|San Diego Comic-Con]] that he was reviving it as part of his new media company, Studio JMS.<ref name=ds/><ref>[https://deadline.com/2012/07/comic-con-j-michael-straczynski-hatches-multi-platform-studio-jms-298984/ Comic-Con: J. Michael Straczynski Hatches Multi-Platform Studio JMS]. July 11, 2012. Deadline.com.  Access June 25, 2013.</ref> The first title, the [[Horror noir|horror-noir]] ''Ten Grand'', initially illustrated by [[Ben Templesmith]] came out in May 2013 and ''Sidekick'' came out in July. Further titles written by Straczynski and published by Joe's Comics in 2014 include ''Protectors Inc'', ''The Adventures of Apocalypse Al'' (originally produced for MTV Comics), ''Alone'', and the return of former Icon titles ''Dream Police'' and ''The Book of Lost Souls'' (both scheduled for 2014).

==Titles published by Joe's Comics==
Titles published by [[Top Cow]]'s short-lived Joe's Comics imprint include:
*''[[Rising Stars (comic)|Rising Stars]]'' (with [[Keu Cha]], [[Ken Lashley]], [[Christian Zanier]], [[Stuart Immonen]], [[Brent Eric Anderson]] and [[Gary Frank (comics)|Gary Frank]], 1999–2005) collected as:
**''Born in Fire'' (collects #1–8, tpb, 192 pages, 2001, {{ISBN|1-58240-172-1}})
**''Power'' (collects #9–16, tpb, 192 pages, 2002, {{ISBN|1-58240-226-4}})
**''Fire and Ash'' (collects #17–24, tpb, 208 pages, 2006, {{ISBN|1-58240-491-7}})
**''Voices of the Dead/Bright'' (collects ''RS: Voices of the Dead'' #1–6<ref name=spn>''Voices of the Dead'', ''Bright'' and ''Untouchable'' are spin-offs, written by [[Fiona Avery]] and edited by Straczynski himself.</ref> and ''RS: Bright'' #1–3,<ref name=spn /> tpb, 226 pages, 2006, {{ISBN|1-58240-613-8}})
**''Visitations/Untouchable'' (collects #0, ½, ''Prelude'' and ''RS: Untouchable'' #1–6,<ref name=spn /> tpb, 208 pages, 2007, {{ISBN|1-58240-268-X}})
**''RS Omnibus'' (collects #0–24, ½ and ''Prelude'', hc, 624 pages, 2005, {{ISBN|1-58240-488-7}})
**''RS Compendium'' (collects #0–24, ½, ''Prelude'' and the spin-offs, hc, 1008 pages, 2009, {{ISBN|1-60706-032-9}}; tpb, 2009, {{ISBN|1-58240-802-5}})
*''[[Midnight Nation]]'' #1–12 (with Gary Frank, 2000–2002) (tpb, 288 pages, 2003, {{ISBN|1-58240-272-8}}; hc, 304 pages, 2009, {{ISBN|1-60706-040-X}})
*''[[Delicate Creatures]]'' (with [[Michael Zulli]], [[graphic novel]], hc, 56 pages, 2001, {{ISBN|1-58240-225-6}})

Joe's Comics was revived at [[Image Comics]] in 2013:
{{update|date=March 2017}}
*''Ten Grand'' with [[Ben Templesmith]] and CP Smith (May 2013 – January 2015)
*''Sidekick'' with [[Tom Mandrake]] (August 2013 – December 2015)
*''Protectors Inc'' with [[Gordon Purcell]] (November 2013 – November 2014)
*''The Adventures of Apocalypse Al'' with Sid Kotian (February 2014 – May 2014)
*''Dream Police'' with Sid Kotian (April 2014 - September 2016). A sequel to a one-shot [[Dream Police (comics)|comic of the same name]] published by [[Marvel Comics|Marvel's]] [[Icon Comics]] line.
*''Alone'' with [[Bill Sienkiewicz]] (scheduled for 2014). It was never published.
*''[[The Book of Lost Souls]]'' with [[Colleen Doran]] (scheduled for 2014). A planned sequel to the 2005 [[The Book of Lost Souls|mini series of the same name]] published by Marvel/Icon.  This sequel was never published.

==References==

{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://studiojms.com/ Studio JMS], parent company of Joe's Comics

[[Category:Comic book publishing companies of the United States]]
[[Category:Comics by J. Michael Straczynski|*]]
[[Category:1998 establishments in the United States]]
[[Category:Top Cow Productions]]
[[Category:Companies based in Berkeley, California]]