Antarctic Press

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Antarctic Press is a San Antonio-based comic book publishing company which publishes 'American Manga' style comics.

Founded by Ben Dunn in 1984, they have produced over 850 titles with a total circulation of over 5 million. Among their titles are some of the most respected and longest-running independent comic series.

Their earliest titles were Mangazine and Extremely Silly Comics. Their comics include Gold Digger, Twilight X, Ninja High School, Warrior Nun Areala, Dragon Arms, The Science Fair, Mighty Tiny, Weapons File, Pose File,Battle Girls,Twilight X Storm, and MetaDocs, and are mainly published for fans of Japanese imports, such as One Piece, Transformers, Voltron and others.

In April 2006, their popular title Warrior Nun was re-launched as Warrior Nun Lazarus and included impressive CGI coloring.

In the 1990s, the company also published numerous furry comic books such as a revived Albedo Anthropomorphics, Furrlough, Wild Life and Genus. In 1998, these titles moved off to a separate company, Radio Comix.

Recently, Antarctic has announced David Hutchison's Final Girl, where voters can choose who lives and who dies in the limited series.