Gorilla Comics

Gorilla Comics was a short-lived American comic book imprint launched in 2000 by creators Kurt Busiek, Tom Grummett, Stuart Immonen, Karl Kesel, Barry Kitson, George Pérez, Mark Waid, and Mike Wieringo. Characters were creator-owned, and books were published through Image Comics.

Titles
Titles included:


 * Crimson Plague by Pérez (originally published through Event Comics)
 * Empire by Waid and Kitson (later completed through DC Comics)
 * Section Zero by Kesel and Grummett
 * Shockrockets by Busiek and Immonen
 * Superstar by Busiek and Immonen
 * Tellos by Todd Dezago and Wieringo (originally published through Image Central)

Closure
The founders intended to finance the company through a comics-themed website, eHero.com, which proved unsuccessful. This left creators financing their own books, and only a handful of issues saw print. Only Shockrockets and Tellos completed their initial storylines. The last Gorilla Comics book, Superstar, consisted of a single issue printed in 2001.

Shockrockets was later reprinted by Dark Horse Comics. Further Tellos stories were self-published directly through Image. Empire was later completed as a miniseries at DC Comics.