El Capitan Books is an American
comic book
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and
graphic novel
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publisher
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, which exclusively publishes the work of its founder,
David Lapham
David Lapham is an American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on the independent comic book '' Stray Bullets''.
Career
David Lapham started his career in 1990 as a penciller at Valiant Comics. He went on to wor ...
.
El Capitan's first release was ''
Stray Bullets'' #1 in 1995, and the company is still best known for publishing this comic book series which continues today.
Other series which it has released include ''
Murder Me Dead'' #1–9 (2000–2001) and ''
The Parallax Man'' (2005).
The company is also well known for its collections of ''Stray Bullets'' stories (''Innocence of Nihilism'', ''Somewhere Out West'', ''Other People'', and ''Dark Days'') in large European-style hardcover editions (and more recently in small US comic size softcover editions).
Comic book publishing companies of the United States
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