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 bo ...

and NOW Entertainment Corporation,"Tony C. Caputo is the publisher and found of NOW Comics and is the author of the new graphic novel 'Vesper's'" - KRT Photos
/ref> a multimedia company that published

comic books A comic book, comic-magazine, or simply comic is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and wri ...

, children's periodicals, trade paperback books, and home

video Video is an Electronics, electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving picture, moving image, visual Media (communication), media. Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, whi ...

s of such characters as

Speed Racer ''Speed Racer'', also known as , is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuo Yoshida. It was originally serialized in print in Shueisha's 1966 ''Shōnen Book''. It was released in form by Sun Wide Comics and later re-re ...

, the Terminator,

The Real Ghostbusters ''The Real Ghostbusters'' is an American animated television series, a spin-off and sequel of the 1984 comedy film ''Ghostbusters''. The series ran on ABC between September 13, 1986 and October 5, 1991, and was a joint production of DIC Enter ...

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& the T-Force, and ''

The Green Hornet The Green Hornet is a superhero created in 1936 by George W. Trendle and Fran Striker, with input from radio director James Jewell (director), James Jewell. Since his 1930s radio debut, the character has appeared in numerous serialized dramas i ...

''. Caputo ran NOW until 1994,"NOW Comics marks revival with 'Vespers'" - Chicago Tribune
/ref> briefly reviving the company from 2003 to 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 Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to present topics objectively ...

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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