Rod Van Blake
@vanblaze
United States
Member since Feb 2026
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Established in 2014, Mad Cave Studios is a comic book publisher headquartered in Miami, Florida committed to creativity and driven by madness. With a diverse selection of books across multiple genres, Mad Cave Studios has a comic book for everyone.
re: What are you working on?
Currently a third of the way finished with my sixth literary novel which will be the third in my fantasy series. Nyumbani Chronicles is the title. The first two chapters were illustrated into comic issues. Ancient Illumination was my debut novel and was the first to get the illustrated treatment. The first four chapters of that book was translated...
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Publishing the very best in science fiction, fantasy, and horror comics.
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Indie Publisher. Dive into original stories, where every page offers a new adventure! Creator of Magnus. USAF l ΦΒΣ ??1914
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Valiant is a leading character-based entertainment company with a library of over 2,000 characters, including X-O Manowar, Bloodshot, Harbinger, Shadowman, Archer & Armstrong and many more. Established in 1989, Valiant has sold over 81 million comic books, and today its characters continue to be forged in publishing, licensing, film, video games, and beyond.
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Dark Horse Comics was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson as an offshoot of his Oregon comic-book retail chain, Things From Another World. Richardson pursued the idea of establishing an ideal atmosphere for creative professionals, and thirty years later the company has grown to become the third-largest comics publisher in the United States.
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Konkret Comics is a 6x Award Winning Publishing Company launched in 2019 by creator and writer Derek 'Lonzo Starr' Allen. Konkret Comics is a collective of artists, creators, and writers with a passion to create stories through a diverse lens that appeals to all audiences of all ages. There is a lack of diversity in the comic book industry and Konkret Comics plans to fill that void.
re: What drew you into making/wanting to make comics?
I published my science fiction literary novel Ancient Illumination in 2016. I was advertising in Locus and Asimov's magazines which are science fiction and fantasy focused magazines for literary works so I figured that would be the best place to buy ad space. However, I was not getting at least the money invested into ads back each month. When my...
re: What does "ultimate success" mean to you?
Success for me would be to find a growing community of people who truly enjoy what I create. For them to care enough to want to learn more about some of my side characters that they ask for books featuring them. I will always write the characters I identify with, but some stories could take on a life of their own fueled by reader curiosity. I...
re: I review SCI-FI COMICS on my blog!
Here's my first graphic novel series translated from my literary novels
https://globalcomix.com/read/e5db2941-703f-478e-8a06-d885b2da692b/1?utm_medium=GCMobileReaderApp&utm_source=share-release&utm_campaign=vanblaze&utm_term=197516
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DC is home to the world's Greatest Super Heroes, Villains, and everything in between.
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Image publishes bestselling, award winning, creator-owned comics and graphic novels in nearly every genre, sub-genre, and style imaginable.