{{Short description|German comic book publishing company}} {{Multiple issues| {{Cleanup bare URLs|date=September 2022}} {{POV|date=April 2023}} {{Unreliable sources|date=April 2023}} }} '''Finix Comics''' is a German comic publisher and a cooperative with the goal to continue prematurely cancelled comic-series in Germany.
== Founding == '''Finix Comics''' was founded in November 2007 by comic-enthusiasts unhappy with the situation of the publishing history of comic-series in Germany. The comic-market in Germany is not as distinct as, for example, in the United States or Japan, nor are comics considered an independently art-form or a serious entertainment medium as in France or Belgium. Therefore, comic series are more often than not prematurely cancelled in their German-language adaption; sometimes in the midst of a storyline, while the original series continues well beyond this.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.ppm-vertrieb.de/ppm-news/342/Fragen-an-Finix-Comics/|title=News - PPM Vertrieb}}</ref> Existing original material thus gets not adapted further, and readers of the series are forced to buy the original comics.<br /> For this reason, several fans grouped together and formed '''Finix Comics''' (''Finix'', or ''Finis'' is French for ''finished''), to continue cancelled series.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.finix-comics.de/willkommen-im-club.html |title=Willkommen im Club - Finix Comics |access-date=2012-03-17 |archive-date=2012-04-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120412223913/http://www.finix-comics.de/willkommen-im-club.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> To this goal, the members of Finix obtain the rights to adapt the original material, and translate, letter, print and distribute any missing issues, continuing the series in Germany.
== Publications == Starting in 2008, Finix translated, lettered and released more than 315 titles, mainly Franco-Belgian comics like ''Les pionniers du nouveau monde'' by '''J.-F. Charles''', '''Maryse Charles''' and '''Ersel'''; ''Quetzalcoatl'' by '''Jean-Yves Mitton'''; ''Buddy Longway'' by '''Derib'''; or ''Vasco'' by '''Gilles Chaillet''' and '''Frédéric Toublanc'''. In 2009 the imprint '''Edition Solitaire''' was founded; Solitaire is dedicated to exclusive high-quality albums not published in German before.<ref>http://www.comic-report.de/cms/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=123&cntnt01returnid=15</ref>
== Titles ==
=== 2008 === * ''Les pionniers du nouveau monde'' (German: ''Die Pioniere der neuen Welt''); by J.-F. Charles, Maryse Charles and Ersel * ''L'impératrice rouge'' (German: ''Die Rote Kaiserin''); by Jean Dufaux and Philippe Adamov * ''Mortepierre'' (German: ''Die Füchsin''); by Brice Tarval, Mohamed Aouamri and Rafa Garres * ''Aberzen'' (German: ''Abersen''); by Marc N'Guessan * ''Violine'' (German: ''Violetta''); by Tronchet, Fabrice Tarrin and Jean-Marc Krings
=== 2009 === * ''Tatiana K.'' (German: ''Tatjana K.''); by François Corteggiani and Félix Meynet * ''Quetzalcoatl'' (German: ''Quetzalcoatl''); by Jean-Yves Mitton * ''Thomas Noland'' (German: ''Thomas Noland''); by Daniel Pecquer and Franz * ''Les innommables'' (German: ''Helden ohne Skrupel''); by Yann Le Pennetier and Didier Conrad * ''Malheig'' (German: ''Malheig''); by Eric Stalner and Jean-Marc Stalner * ''Le vent des dieux'' (German: ''Der Wind der Götter''); by Philippe Adamov and Patrick Cothias * ''Gorn'' (German: ''Gorn''); by Tiburce Oger
=== 2010 === * ''Le chant d'Excalibur'' (German: ''Excalibur''); by Christophe Arleston and Eric Hübsch * ''Lester Cockney'' (German: ''Lester Cockney''); by Franz * ''Buddy Longway'' (German: ''Buddy Longway''); by Derib * ''Les cosmonautes du futur'' (German: ''Die Kosmonauten der Zukunft''); by Lewis Trondheim and Manu Larcenet * ''Le fléau des dieux'' (German: ''Die Geissel der Götter''); by Aleksa Gajić and Valérie Mangin * ''Colby'' (German: ''Colby''); by Greg and Michel Blanc-Dumont
=== 2011 === * ''Horologiom'' (German: ''Horologiom''); by Fabrice Lebeault * ''Shamrock Song'' (German: ''Shamrock Song''); by Franz * ''La famille Martin'' (German: ''Die Müllers''); by Pierre Seron * ''Vasco'' (German: ''Vasco''); by Gilles Chaillet and Frédéric Toublanc * ''Le serment de l'ambre'' (German: ''Der Schwur des Ambers''); by Dieter and Étienne Le Roux * ''Black Mary'' (German: ''Black Mary''); by Erwan Fagès and David Chauvel * ''Spoon & White'' (German: ''Spoon & White''); by Yann Le Pennetier, Jean Léturgie and Simon Léturgie
=== 2012 === * ''Masquerouge'' (German: ''Der Rote Falke''); by Patrick Cothias, André Juillard and Marco Venanzi * ''Petit d'homme'' (German: ''Winzling''); by Crisse and Marc N'Guessan * ''Hauteville House'' (German: ''Hauteville House''); by Fred Duval and Thierry Gioux
=== 2013 === * ''Lou Cale'' (German: ''Lou Cale''); by Éric Warnauts and Guy Raives * ''Chroniques de la Lune Noire'' (German: ''Die Chroniken des schwarzen Mondes''); by François Marcela-Froideval and Fabrice Angleraud * ''Le Décalogue'' (German: ''Zehn Gebote''); by Frank Giroud, Luc Révillon, Béhé, Michel Faure, Alain Mounier, Bruno Rocco, Lucien Rollin and TBC * ''Jérôme K. Jérôme Bloche'' (German: ''Jackie Kottwitz''); by Alain Dodier, Serge Le Tendre and Pierre Makyo * ''Troll'' (German: ''Troll''); by Jean David Morvan, Joann Sfar and Olivier Boiscommun * ''L'Esprit de Warren'' (German: ''Warrens Schwur''); by Luc Brunschwig and Servain
=== 2014 === * ''I.R.$.'' (German: ''I.R.$.''); by Stephen Desberg and Bernard Vrancken
=== Edition Solitaire === * ''Le mangeur d'histoires'' (German: ''Mit fremder Feder''); by Fabrice Lebeault (2009) * ''Quintos'' (German: ''Quintos''); by Andreas and Isabelle Cochet (2010) * ''Quand souffle le vent'' (German: ''Wer Wind sät''); by Laurent Galandon and Cyril Bonin (2010) * ''Cryozone'' (German: ''Cryozone''); by Thierry Cailleteau and Denis Bajram (2011) * ''Petit miracle'' (German: ''Kleines Wunder''); by Valérie Mangin and Griffo (2011)
== References == {{Reflist}}
== External links == * [http://www.finix-comics.de/ Official Homepage]
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