Tony C. Caputo is an American author, visual artist, entrepreneur, and former publisher.

Career

In 1985, Caputo founded

NOW Comics NOW Comics was a comic book publisher founded in late 1985 by Tony C. Caputo as a sole-proprietorship. During the four years after its founding, NOW grew from a one-man operation to operating in 12 countries, and published almost 1,000 comic boo ...

"Comic book industry takes aim at adults" - Lawrence Journal-World
/ref> and NOW Entertainment Corporation,
/ref> a multimedia company that published comic books, children's periodicals, trade paperback books, and home

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s of such characters as

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, the

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''. Caputo ran NOW until 1994,"NOW Comics marks revival with 'Vespers'" - Chicago Tribune
briefly reviving the company from 2003–2005. While working there, he authored the graphic novel ''Vespers'', and wrote an article on the American comic book market, which included detailed market share reports for the first time. Caputo left the entertainment business in 1994, and moved into information technology, first with Ahrens Interactive in 1995, and then with HyperLOCK in 1996.

Books and articles

Caputo's nonfiction books include ''How To Self-Publish Your Own Comic Book'' (Watson-Guptill), ''Visual Storytelling: The Art and the Technique'', ''Build Your Own Server'' (McGraw-Hill) and ''Digital Video Surveillance and Security'' (Elsevier/Reed). His articles have been published by ICv2.com."Now Comics' Tony Caputo Asks 'What If...'" - Internal Correspondences V2
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References

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