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Archaia Entertainment, LLC, commonly known as Archaia (formerly known as Archaia Studios Press), is an imprint of American comic book and graphic novel publisher
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. Archaia Entertainment, LLC was originally an
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publishing company established by Mark Smylie in
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. On June 24, 2013, Archaia was acquired by
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and became a wholly owned imprint. As of 2017, 20th Century Fox purchased a minority stake in Boom! Studios, valued at $10 million. and in 2019,
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inherited Fox's stake in Boom! Studios after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox's assets on March 20, 2019. As of September 10, 2024,
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has sold Boom! Studios to
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.


History

Mark Smylie formed the company as a home for his comic book series '' Artesia''. The original Artesia publisher, Sirius Entertainment, published the first 6 issue mini-series ''Artesia'' in 1999 and the second 6 issue mini-series ''Artesia Afield'' in 2000 in full color. In an attempt to keep costs down, Sirius wanted to print the third series ''Artesia Afire'' in black and white. Smylie decided to take the series back from the publisher and open his own publishing outfit to finance the full color publication of the third series. In April 2006 the company announced they would be expanding their publishing to encompass projects from third parties that were not created by original founder Mark Smylie. "It wasn't long – out of equal parts necessity and entrepreneurialism – before the New Jersey–based painter realized that simply putting out his own work, regardless of how critically acclaimed it was, simply wouldn't be enough, and, along with business partner Aki Liao, began actively searching for both new and existing material to publish under the Archaia banner." In May 2008, Smylie announced they would be restructuring the company in order to address late-shipping books following the departure of Archaia's co-publisher Aki Liao. "We want to make sure we come out of the reorganization with a better workflow and solicitation process model," Smylie said. "We also want to make sure we emerge in the next few months from our reorganization with a release schedule that we can hit on a regular basis, as guaranteed as possible". Archaia was bought by Kunoichi in October 2008, who relaunched the company in June 2009 as simply Archaia. Smylie was installed as Publisher while Stephen Christy was brought aboard as Director of Development. Kunoichi principal P.J. Bickett took over as CEO. In April 2010, Christy was named the company's Editor-in-Chief. In 2013, Archaia was acquired by
Boom! Studios Boom! Studios (stylized as BOOM! Studios), is an American comic book and graphic novel publisher. They are headquartered in Los Angeles, California, United States. The company is a subsidiary of Random House division of Penguin Random House sin ...
and converted from a stand-alone company into an imprint at the publisher.
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inherited Fox's minority stake in
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, after Disney acquired 21st Century Fox's assets on March 20, 2019.


Film adaptations

In March, 2012,
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announced that it had picked up Sean Rubin’s upcoming graphic novel ''Bolivar'' for an intended animated feature film. Irish filmmaker Kealan O’Rourke has been attached to write and direct the project.
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and Kerry Foster will produce the film through their Weed Road company. The graphic novel ''Rust'' was also picked up by
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. It has Aline Brosh McKenna attached to write and
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to produce.


References


External links

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Days Missing #01-05 Spanish Review @ kopodoAwakening writer Nick Tapalansky and artist Alex Eckman-Lawn talk
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comiXologyAn interview with the creators of The Long Count comic from Archaia Studios on the Comic Geek Speak podcast
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