British publisher Com.X stages comeback

British publisher Com.X has ended its long hiatus with a panel at Long Beach Comic Con, where it announced several forthcoming projects.

The company has a series of original graphic novels in the works, including Monster Myths, Duppy '78, Nicodemus Flynn and Forty-Five.

"[Com.X] started out of a pure passion for comics," said Com.X owner and co-founder Eddie Deighton. "We'd been talking about ways to create our own characters, our own stories. And we resigned ourselves to the fact that, because we were new to the industry, we needed to create something ourselves.

"The whole premise behind it was we wanted to create a company that had no real boundaries when it came to genres, in terms of styles of stories that were being written. We just wanted to create kick-ass comics that people would enjoy."

Com.X was launched in 2000, but went on an extended hiatus from publishing after running into difficulties.

"We tried to run before we could walk," said Deighton. "We wanted to prove that we were the new kids on the block and we could deliver the goods.

"I think the pressure got to us, and we were getting to the point where we were not managing our launches correctly. And we felt that we needed to take a step back from publishing after three or four years and reevaluate where we were."

Earlier this week, it was announced that Mandeville Films had acquired the rights to Com.X's political superhero thriller Cla$$war.