Personality Comics was a short-lived American comic book publishing company which specialized in unauthorized profiles of professional athletes and entertainers, as well as adult comics.
Operating from 1991 to 1993, the company published a myriad of titles under a variety of imprint labels. (Many of Personality's titles were not comics per se, as they were primarily text with illustrations rather than sequential art.)
A typical Personality Comics title featured a painted portrait of the subject on the cover, with black-and-white art inside.
Regular contributors included Robert Schnakenberg, Mark Caraballo, Hector Diaz, Neil Feigeles and Pat Henkel. Notable creators associated with the company included Barry Blair, Fred Hembeck, Adam Hughes and John Tartaglione.
§History
Originally based in Massapequa, New York, the company later moved to Melville, New York. Adam Post was the company's publisher, co-owner and president. The company's story editor was Michele Howell, and the art editor was Kirk Lindo.
In February 1993, the company announced it had bought the rights to the defunct comics magazine Amazing Heroes, and planned to revive it. However, nothing came of it as the company itself folded later that year.
Altogether, the company published nearly 80 titles and over 200 individual issues.
§Titles (selected)
§Imprints
§See also
- 1991 in comics
- 1993 in comics
- List of comics publishing companies
- List of New York companies
§Notes
§References
- Personality Comics at the Grand Comics Database
- Personality Comics at the Comic Book DB
- Who's Who of American Comics Books, 1928â€"1999
