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The history of BLACK MASK Comics  by Terry Hoknes    9/3/15

High quality stories and artwork, high quality paper stock and printing and small print runs has made Black Mask the new #1 most popular small indie publisher in the comic collecting world in 2015.

Here is a complete index to all their releases so far chronologically.

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.   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.[4][5] 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

12 REASONS TO DIE #1 May 2013 1 2 3 4 5 6
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(W) Ghostface Killah & Various (A) Breno Tamura & Various (CA) Christopher Mitten, Ronald Wimberly
12 Reasons To Die is a brutal tale of gangsters, betrayal, and one vengeful soul hunting the 12 Dons who conspired his murder. Created by Ghostface Killah and produced by RZA, this hard-knuckled horror/crime hybrid follows multiple timelines - and multiple artists - in the quest for revenge. 
OCCUPY COMICS #1 May 2013 1 2 3
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(W) Alan Moore & Various (A) David Lloyd & Various (CA) Mike Allred
Occupy Comics brings together more than 50 comics pros to discuss and document the themes, goals, and ideals of the Occupy movement while also raising funds to support it. With a roster spanning from legends like Alan Moore & David Lloyd (V For Vendetta) to rising stars like Charlie Adlard (The Walking Dead) to icons like Art Spiegelman (Maus), Occupy Comics is a once-in-a-lifetime coalition of intelligent creatives using sequential art to record history as it's being made.
BALLISTIC #1 July 2013 1 2 3 4 5
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(W) Adam Egypt Mortimer (A/CA) Darick Robertson
This madcap sci-fi buddy adventure about a wanna-be bank robber and his best-friend Gun, a drug-addicted, foul-mouthed, living gun, marks Darick Robertson's return to the hard sci-fi worldbuilding of his classic Transmetropolitan mixed with The Boys' ultra-violence and the lunacy of Happy.
LIBERATOR #1 June 2013 1 2 3 4
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(W) Matt Miner (A) Joel Gomez (CA) Tim Seeley
Read the book that Batman's Scott Snyder calls "a really cool, progressive story about young outcast crusaders." A hard-edged vigilante series about two young heroes who avenge the torture of animals. "Unlike any comic book project to date, Miner delivers a message about animal abuse blended with a gritty protagonist in the vein of Batman or The Punisher." - ComicBooked
LIBERATOR EARTH CRISIS #1 (OF 2) (MR) March 2014 1 2
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(W) Matt Miner, Earth Crisis (A) Javier Sanchez Aranda (CA) Menton3, Rod Reis
Liberator joins forces with vegan metalcore legends Earth Crisis for this special 2-issue arc that focuses on Sarah Mann, a young woman working a lousy job in an animal testing lab who is radicalized into an animal-avenging vigilante after being inspired by Damon and Jeanette's exploits. Released in tandem with the new Earth Crisis album that tells another side of Sarah's story.
CRITICAL HIT #1 (MR) October 2014 1 2 3 4
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(W) Matt Miner (A) Jonathan Brandon Sawyer (CA) Jonathan Brandon Sawyer & Various
Matt Miner rallies a brand new art team and launches Liberator fan-favorites Jeanette and Sarah in a bold new direction with their own gritty mission to stop a rogue gang of hunters - but the girls learn to their horror that these hunters have developed a new hobby: hunting people... and suddenly the rescuers become the prey.
GODKILLER WALK AMONG US #1 (MR) October 2014 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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(W) Matt Pizzolo (A) Anna Wieszczyk (CA) Ben Templesmith & Various
Described as Saga meets Johnny The Homicidal Maniac, Godkiller: Walk Among Us is a twisted sci-horror adventure about a boy's search for a new heart to save his dying sister in a post-nuclear wasteland populated by fallen gods, sex magic, and quantum physics technowizards. Based on the cult hit animated series starring Davey Havok (singer AFI), Lance Henriksen (Aliens), and Nicki Clyne (Battlestar Galactica).
LAST BORN #1 (MR) October 2014 1 2 3 4
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(W) Patrick Meaney (A/CA) Eric Zawadzki
What if the Big Bang was not the first of its kind? And, more importantly, not the last? Her whole life, Julia has yearned for adventure, and when she falls through a rupture in spacetime, she finally gets her wish. This cosmological thrill-ride marks the comic writing debut of Patrick Meaney, director of Grant Morrison: Talking With Gods.
PIROUETTE #1 (MR) October 2014 1 2 3 4
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(W) Mark L. Miller (A) Carlos Granda (CA) Alé Garza
The circus is the Greatest Show On Earth, unless you're the attraction. Raised from infancy by duplicitous clowns who entertain by day and menace by night, Pirouette dreams of washing the paint from her face and escaping to a better life far away from her cruel adoptive circus family... because when the spotlights dim and the crowd disperses, the clown princess' big-top dreams give way to a nightmarish world of monsters with painted smiles.
TOE TAG RIOT #1 (OF 4) (MR) November 2014 1 2 3 4
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(W) Matt Miner (A) Sean Von (CA) Tristan Jones, Rod Reis
A hilarious and gory tongue-in-cheek story, Toe Tag Riot is about a punk rock band cursed to become zombies whenever they perform their music! The band goes on a last cross-country tour in search of the cure to their affliction, but being the ethical sometimes-zombie punks that they are, Toe Tag Riot uses their zombie superpowers to rid the world of racists, homophobes, misogynists and all kinds of other nasty people. Read the LGBT-positive book that the Westboro Baptist Church themselves accidentally endorsed and then felt really stupid about doing! Guest appearance by Andy Hurley from Fall Out Boy!
MAYDAY #1 (OF 4) (MR) March 2015 1 2 3 4
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(W) Curt Pires (A) Chris Peterson (CA) Amancay Nahuelpan
From Black Mask Comics. A washed-up, drug-addicted screenwriter and a transgender bartender stumble onto a Satanic cult's plan to sacrifice people all across LA (geomapped in the form of a pentagram, of course) and bring on Armageddon. As our intrepid, damaged heroes embark on a suicide mission to stop the crazy cultists, even they wonder if this is all really happening or if they're just plain crazy. Probably both. The latest project from Curt Pires (POP) sees him teaming with art sensation Chris Peterson (Grindhouse) for a story that cuts to the very center of Hollywood mythology and depravity itself.
SPACE RIDERS #1 (OF 4) (MR) March 2015 1 2 3 4
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(W) Fabian Rangel (A/CA) Alexis Ziritt
From Black Mask Comics. From the galactic core to the outer quadrants, one name strikes terror in the hearts of evil beings everywhere: the Space Riders! Sailing the cosmos in the Skullship Santa Muerte, Capitan Peligro and his fearless crew deal harsh justice to the scum of the galaxy while searching for the forbidden truths of the universe! Fabian Rangel Jr (Doc Unknown) and Alexis Ziritt (The Package) bring you a new and exciting space adventure that will destroy your brain! (in a good way).
WE CAN NEVER GO HOME #1 (OF 5) (MR) April 2015 1 2 3 4 5
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(W) Matthew Rosenberg, Patrick Kindlon (A) Josh Hood
DISCIPLES #1 (MR) May 2015 1 2 3 4
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(W) Steve Niles (A/CA) Christopher Mitten
From Black Mask Comics. Dagmar, Rick, and Jules, intrepid private eyes/bounty hunters, have been hired by a high ranking Senator to retrieve his teenage daughter who's run off to join a mysterious religious cult. This is no ordinary cult though. In the near future of The Disciples, the ultra-wealthy have become true Masters of the Universe by colonizing moons throughout the solar system. Billionaire industrialist McCauley Richmond is one such colonist: he's built a new society on Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter, where his flock of cultists can have the religious freedom to worship him. But when the team reaches Ganymede in their StarshipVenture, they discover something has gone horribly wrong ... This ghost story in space reunites comics' king of the macabre, Steve Niles, with his longtime collaborator Christopher Mitten, whose stylish mix of grit and flow matches Steve's sharp characterizations and taste for screams.
TRANSFERENCE #1 (MR) June 2015 1 2 3 4 5
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(W) Michael Moreci (A) Ron Salas (CA) Nat Jones
From Black Mask Comics. Colton Moss and his elite team of special agents run counter-terrorism operations utilizing a secret form of time travel technology called "transference," which enables them to send their consciousnesses back in time - but, when Colton's past is altered to reshape his life in the present, he discovers this technology isn't as exclusive as he thought. Now Colton must prevent a large-scale insurgency in the U.S. - and do so in the transference-past, where a terrorist's consciousness could be in any body, so everybody is a potential suspect. 
YOUNG TERRORISTS #1 (MR) August 2015 1 2 3
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(W) Matt Pizzolo (A/CA) Amancay Nahuelpan
The Young Terrorists crank things up to 11 when Sera hits the US-Mexico border to recruit a militia for her imminent strike on the New World Order. Meanwhile: bizarre mind-melding sex, severed heads, and radical conspiracy theory collide in the most deliciously seditious comic of the decade.
CLANDESTINO #1 (MR) October 2015 1 2
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(W/A/CA) Amancay Nahuelpan
The country of Tairona became a no man's land after the military coup. Guerrillas were formed across the lands, and rebels unified against the dictator to resist the regime. The hopes of many lay on Clandestino, who barely escaped from the military attacks as a child, and was then recruited by the rebel forces, to later lead the revolution against the dictator. An all-new miniseries by Amancay Nahuelpan (Young Terrorists, Boy-1, Robocop).
XED #1 (MR) October 2015 1 2
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(W) Tony Patrick (A/CA) Ayhan Hayrula
A sci-fi thriller about a next-gen form of psychiatry: "subliminal hitmen" injected into your mind who hunt down and kill the demons that haunt you. Ex-military sharpshooter Colin McClure is Mezign Corporation's most recent recruit for the still-experimental (and often deadly) job of subliminal hitman. McClure is the perfect candidate for two reasons: a) he's a killing machine, and b) he lost his legs in the war, so subliminal-ops are his only way to see any action. But he's also a dangerous candidate for one reason unknown to Mezign: Colin's true motive is to enter the mind of his catatonic daughter and bring her out of a coma.