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Parent company | Polarity |
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Founded | 2011[1] |
Founder | David Steward II Carl Reed |
Defunct | 2019Oni Press[2]) | (publishing duties transferred to
Country of origin | United States |
Headquarters location | St. Louis Portland |
Distribution | Diamond Book Distributors (books)[3][failed verification] |
Publication types | Comics |
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Owner(s) | Polarity |
Official website | Lion Forge Entertainment |
Lion Forge Comics was an American comic book publisher founded in 2011 by David Steward II and Carl Reed. The company had a strong focus on culturally diverse creators and stories.[4] In 2019, it became an imprint label following the company's merger with Oni Press. The merged company, Oni–Lion Forge Publishing Group, is owned by Polarity. As of 2022, the Lion Forge name is now "largely dormant with Oni Press (as Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group) taking over the publishing side of things".[2]
David Steward II, 43, founded Lion Forge, a comic book publisher that emphasizes diverse stories told by diverse creators, in 2011. His media business expanded in 2018 with the creation of holding company Polarity Ltd., and again last year with Lion Forge Animation, a St. Louis-based animation studio that carries the comics brand's focus on diversity to a larger medium. In its first year, Lion Forge Animation co-produced Hair Love, a story of a Black man doing his daughter's hair for the first time, which took home the Academy Award for Best Animated Short.
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