Transfuzion Publishing and Millennial Concepts Join Forces
(July 9, 2008). Gary Reed, founder of Caliber, a seminal independent comics publisher in the 1990s and currently co-publisher with Rafael Nieves of Transfuzion Publishing have joined forces in a joint graphic novel publishing venture with Mark Ellis and Melissa Martin Ellis, founders of Millennium Publications.
Gary was owner of Caliber Comics, an independent publisher which centered on creator owned titles and helped to launch or further the careers of many of today’s top creators such as David Mack, Michael Lark, James O’Barr, Vince Locke, Mike Perkins, Guy Davis, Patrick Zircher, Don Kramer, Jim Calafiore, Laurence Campbell, Ed Brubaker, Mike Perkins, Michael Avon Oeming, Brian Bendis, Mark Ricketts, Galen Showman, and many others. Caliber also published many of the established and top creators at that time such as Alan Moore, Moebius, Dave Dorman, Warren Ellis, and more.
In March 2008, Transfuzion Publishing officially launched. The collaboration between Reed and Rafael Nieves debuted with four titles and in the first four months, Transfuzion has released 13 graphic novels. Nieves, played a formulative role in the launch of Moonstone Comics as well as the revamped Comico, also was the author for Marvel’s Tales from the Heart and Moonstone’s Phantom series.
Newport, RI residents Mark Ellis and Melissa Martin Ellis have been professional writers, artists and comics creators for over 20 years.
Mark, a full-time novelist who created the best-selling Outlanders SF series for Harlequin Enterprises, worked as a creator in the comics field throughout the 1980s, writing for Adventure Publications, Innovation and several others.
In 1990, Mark and Melissa formed Millennium Publications with a third partner and published Anne Rice’s The Mummy, as well as a series based on The Wild Wild West and what is generally considered to be the most faithful comics adaptation of Doc Savage. During their time at Millennium, they gave artists like Darryl Banks and the late Mike Wieringo their first major exposure.
In 1993, they sold their interests in Millennium but retained ownership of a number of comics properties, such as