Slave Labor Graphics

Slave Labor Graphics (often abbreviated "SLG") is an independent comic book publisher in the United States. It is well-known for publishing darkly humorous, offbeat comics such as Jhonen Vasquez's Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and Squee!,or Roman Dirge's Lenore, the Cute Little Dead Girl, and The Monsters In My Tummy, though its output is not restricted to this style. Another notable series for the publisher has been Gloomcookie, which focuses on the goth subculture that SLG's books tend to appeal to.

SLG was started in 1986 by Dan Vado, who is still the company's president and publisher. The first book SLG published was Shadow Star #3, a female superhero character previously published independently by some of Vado's friends. SLG's first major success was Samurai Penguin #1 by Dan and Mark Buck, which sold 58,000 copies in the summer of 1986. The first few titles, such as Hero Sandwich and It's Science With Dr. Radium, were all created by friends of Vado's from high school. Another success was Milk & Cheese, a comic about mean-spirited anthropomorphic dairy products by Evan Dorkin. In this time period, comic book speculation was rampant, so SLG was able to sell its entire print run of many titles. However, at the end of the speculation bubble, some distributors went out of business without paying SLG.

In 2005, SLG entered into a partnership with the Walt Disney Company to produce comic book series based on some of its properties: Haunted Mansion, Wonderland, Tron, and Gargoyles.

List of SLG titles

• Autumn
• Bear
• Cocopiazo
• Corporate Ninja
• Dead Eyes Open
• Emo Boy
• Fillerbunny
• Gloomcookie #1-? (1999 – present)
• Haunted Mansion
• Hsu & Chan
• I Feel Sick #1-2 (1999 – 2000)
• Jet Pack Pets
• Johnny the Homicidal Maniac #1-7 (1995 – 1997)
• Lenore #1-? (1998-
• Little Scrowlie
• Milk & Cheese
• The Monsters In My Tummy
• Mr. Night
• Next Exit
• Nightmares & Fairy Tales
• Paris
• Patty Cake
• Pirate Club
• Rex Libris
• Samurai Jam #3-4 (previously Samurai Funnies, published by Solson Publications)
• Samurai Penguin #1-8 (1986 – 1988)
• Samurai Penguin: Food Chain Follies #1
• Screenplay #1
• Serenity Rose
• Shadow Star #3 (1986; #1-2 published by Savage Graphics)
• Skeleton Girl Comics #1-3
• Sky Ape #1-4
• Squee #1-4 (1997 – 1998)
• The Super Scary Monster Show
• Vaistron #1-? (2005 – present)

External links

• Slave Labor Graphics official site
• Dan Vado on SLG's Disney Deal, NEWSARAMA.COM.