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Black Mask Studios is a comic book and graphic novel publishing company formed by Matt Pizzolo, Steve Niles and Brett Gurewitz, designed as a new infrastructure to support comic book creators and a new pipeline for transgressive art. ==History== On March 20, 2012, it was announced that ''Occupy Comics'', the charity comic book inspired by and raising funds for Occupy Wall Street, organized by Pizzolo, would not be released through an existing comic book publisher, but through a new company called Black Mask Studios. Niles and Gurewitz joined with Pizzolo to found Black Mask. Pizzolo has explained that Black Mask will operate under the mottos "to create you must destroy" and "Inspire, never meddle". On June 12, 2012, Black Mask Studios opened its webstore and officially released ''Occupy Comics'' #1 with the announcement that Pulitzer Prize-winner Art Spiegelman, Bill Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner, Jimmy Palmiotti, and Matt Bors had joined the book's roster. On September 17, 2012, the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, ''Occupy Comics'' #2 was released to the project's Kickstarter backers and via the Black Mask Studios website. The cover featured a new and iconic illustration by V For Vendetta artist David Lloyd pitting his seminal character V against the Wall Street Charging Bull. Nearly a year later, on February 14, 2013, Black Mask Studios unveiled its first slate of comics with a two-pronged distribution strategy of supplying comics to traditional comic book shops as well as direct-to-fan through digital-physical hybrid subscriptions. The following year, in October 2014, Black Mask Studios announced its second slate of 15 new series, a major expansion for the company, flagshipped by ''Sinatoro'' from Grant Morrison and Vanesa Del Rey and ''Disciples'' from Steve Niles and Christopher Mitten. Also in October 2014, Black Mask Studios announced its first two non-comics productions: a TV adaptation of Five Ghosts by Frank Barbiere and Chris Mooneyham, executive produced by Pizzolo and Gurewitz for Syfy and Universal Cable Productions with a pilot by Evan Daugherty; and an animated feature film trilogy of Godkiller by Pizzolo, Anna Muckcracker Wieszczyk and Ben Templesmith. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Black Mask Studios」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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