Black Eye Productions

Black Eye Productions
	File:Black Eye Productions Logo.jpg
Types of business entity	Comic publisher
Industry	Comics
Founded	1992
Founder(s)	Michel Vrana
Defunct	1998
Headquarters	Montreal, Quebec
Website	www.BlackEye.com

Black Eye Productions (also called Black Eye Books) was a short-lived but influential Canadian comic book publishing company founded by Michel Vrana. Under the auspices of Vrana, Black Eye was known as a publisher of artfully designed alternative comics and graphic novels, most of whose cartoonists have gone on to successful careers with fellow Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly. In fact, Vrana still acts as Drawn and Quarterly's exclusive outside design consultant.^[1]

Black Eye acted as a comic book publisher from 1992 to 1998, when Vrana turned the business into a design company.^[2]

Publications[edit | edit source]

Ongoing titles and limited series[edit | edit source]

Atomic City Tales vol. 1 (Jay Stephens, 1994–1995)
Berlin (Jason Lutes, 1996–1998)
Dear Julia 4 issues (Brian Biggs, 1996-1997)
The Land of Nod vol. 1 (Jay Stephens, 1996–1997)
Pickle (Dylan Horrocks, 1992-1997)
The Sands (Tom Hart, 1996–1997)
Sin Comics (Jay Stephens, 1993–1994)
Sputnik (anthology, 1993–1994)

Graphic novels/trade paperbacks[edit | edit source]

Atomic City Tales (Jay Stephens, 1994)
Black Candy (Matt Madden, 1998) ISBN 978-0-9698874-6-1
A Complete Lowlife (Ed Brubaker, 1997)
Dance Me Outside: The Illustrated Screenplay (Nick Craine, 1994) ISBN 978-0-9698874-0-9
Hicksville (Dylan Horrocks, 1998)
Human Remains (Darren Raye & Sean Scoffield, 1994)
Jar of Fools (Jason Lutes, 1995)
The Land of Nod Treasury (Jay Stephens, 1994)
The Sands: a Picture Story (Tom Hart, 1998) ISBN 978-0-9698874-8-5

Cartoonists associated with Black Eye[edit | edit source]

Notes[edit | edit source]

↑ Michel Vrana's bio on the faculty page at The Center for Cartoon Studies website. Retrieved July 30, 2008.
↑ "Black Eye Rolls with the Punches: Publisher Vrana Shifts Company Focus Following Turbulent Period," The Comics Journal no. 203 (Apr. 1998), p. 18-19.

External links[edit | edit source]

[1] Michel Vrana's bio on the faculty page at The Center for Cartoon Studies website. Retrieved July 30, 2008.

[2] "Black Eye Rolls with the Punches: Publisher Vrana Shifts Company Focus Following Turbulent Period," The Comics Journal no. 203 (Apr. 1998), p. 18-19.

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