Aardvark-Vanaheim is a Canadian independent comic book publisher founded in 1977 by Dave Sim and Deni Loubert and is best known for publishing Sim's Cerebus .
4-487: For a brief time, the company also published other titles, sometimes under the name Aardvark One International . This was mainly in the early 1980s, and most of these titles moved to Deni Loubert's new company, Renegade Press . Since the 1980s the majority of titles published by the company were related to Cerebus , although since the final issue of Cerebus was published, A-V has gone on to publish other works by Sim, including glamourpuss . In July 1984, Aardvark-Vanaheim
8-525: A comics publishing company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Renegade Press Renegade Press was an American comic book company, founded by Canadian Deni Loubert , that operated from 1984 to 1988. Notable titles published by Renegade included Flaming Carrot , Ms. Tree , and normalman . Loubert was publisher of Aardvark-Vanaheim until she and husband Dave Sim (owner and major contributor to Aardvark-Vanaheim) divorced, at which point she started Renegade and moved to
12-572: The United States. With the move, all of Aardvark-Vanaheim's titles (with the exception of Cerebus ) left that publisher to continue with Renegade. These included Flaming Carrot Comics , normalman , Neil the Horse , and Ms. Tree . Although Renegade started in high-profile fashion, its titles suffered from low print runs. In early 1988, Renegade refit its publishing strategy, but suspended all publications later that year. In July 1989
16-530: Was threatened with possible legal action by Marvel Comics over a parody of Marvel's Wolverine character in Cerebus . A-V's offices are located in Kitchener , Ontario . This Canadian comics and cartooning-related article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about a Canadian media company is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article about
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