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TKO Studios
TKO Studios is an American comics publisher founded by Tze Chun and Salvatore Simeone in 2017.A New Comics Publisher Aims to Shake Things Up
The New York Times, December 19, 2018.


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TKO Studios was founded in 2017 by and Salvatore Simeone. Unlike the majority of other American comic book publishers, TKO sell their books directly to consumers and comic book shops, completely bypassing distributor . In 2020, TKO Studios signed a deal Ingr ...
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Tze Chun
Tze Chun (born Tze-ngo Chun ) is an Cinema of the United States, American film and TV producer, director, writer, and comic book publisher. He was born in Chicago and raised outside of Boston, and graduated from Milton Academy in 1998. He received his bachelor's degree in film studies at Columbia University. Films Feature films Children of Invention His debut feature film, ''Children of Invention'', premiered at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, screened at over 50 film festivals, won 17 festival awards including 8 Grand Jury or Best Narrative Feature prize including "Best Narrative Feature" at the Newport International Film Festival, the Independent Film Festival Boston, the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival (where the cast won a Special Jury Prize in New Talent to Watch in Acting), the San Diego Asian Film Festival, and the San Francisco Asian American Film Festival, as well as "Emerging Filmmaker Awards" from the Hawaii International Film Festival and the DC Asian Paci ...
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Steve Orlando
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Jordie Bellaire
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Dan McDaid
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Steve Niles
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