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Floating World Comics
Floating World Comics is a comic book retailer and publisher located in Portland, Oregon. Owned by Jason Leivian, the company specializes in alternative comics, alternative and independent comics, "showcasing auteur creators and the artists pushing the boundaries of 2-D sequential works." History Floating World Comics opened in November 2006, located in a "modest ActivSpace... under the Interstate 405 (Oregon), I-405 freeway." It soon moved to the corner of NW 4th and Couch in the Portland neighborhood of Old Town Chinatown. The company expanded into publishing in 2011. In 2013, Floating World took over as publisher of ''Arthur (magazine), Arthur'' magazine, helping to relaunch the publication. (''Arthur'' folded again the following year.) In February 2015, Floating World Comics became part of a distribution cooperative — managed by Alternative Comics — along with the small publishers Hic and Hoc Publications, Revival House Press, Study Group Comics, Hang Dai Editions, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Privately Held Company
A privately held company (or simply a private company) is a company whose Stock, shares and related rights or obligations are not offered for public subscription or publicly negotiated in their respective listed markets. Instead, the Private equity, company's stock is offered, owned, traded or exchanged privately, also known as "over-the-counter (finance), over-the-counter". Related terms are unlisted organisation, unquoted company and private equity. Private companies are often less well-known than their public company, publicly traded counterparts but still have major importance in the world's economy. For example, in 2008, the 441 list of largest private non-governmental companies by revenue, largest private companies in the United States accounted for $1.8 trillion in revenues and employed 6.2 million people, according to ''Forbes''. In general, all companies that are not owned by the government are classified as private enterprises. This definition encompasses both publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |