The Tekno Comix company was founded by Laurie Silvers and Mitchell Rubenstein as a division of their publicly traded company, Big Entertainment. The Tekno Comix brand was discontinued in 1997.
Although books featuring the same characters were still published under the Big Entertainment brand for the remainder of that year in 1997. Tekno Comix tried to get as much exposure as possible between 1994 and 1997, but the comic book competition proved too tough for the next company and it disbanded.
Tekno Comix publications featured many different comic book characters and situations created by some famous authors and others in the world of comics, but were primarily written and illustrated by comic creators under contract to Tekno Comix.
Some of his comics include:
Gene Roddenberry’s Lost Universe (later renamed Xander in Lost Universe),
I-Bots by Isaac Asimov,
John Jakes’ Mullkon Empire (six issue limited series),
leonard nimoy primals
Mickey Spillane’s Mike Danger
Lady Justice by Neil Gaiman,
Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man by Neil Gaiman,
Phage: Shadow Death by Neil Gaiman (six issue limited series).
I was one of the lucky ones to have attended a comic book convention at the Sawgrass Mills mall in
Ft. Lauderdale, Florida in or around August 1994 and was able to meet with most of the people mentioned above, it was a pleasure to have met some of those people and share their views on where the comic company was headed. Unfortunately, his timing was not conducive for his company to do well, as I recall, comics were taking a backseat to sports collectibles, at least in the state of Florida.
The newly formed Florida Marlins were taking the spotlight locally and I think the comic book industry across the country was having a spillover impact on sports. The 1990s marked the era of the comics industry’s overproduction and watered-down versions of an incredibly large number of comic book titles. The two main guilty companies. I can remember the overproduced Spider-Man, the McFarlane saga, which by the way is why the comic is worthless today. All the companies and their greed led in part to the demise of Tekno Comix.
Some of the Tekno Comix were fun to read, I was a fan of Leonard Nimoy’s Primortals and I have a nice autographed article on my blog, yours for the viewing. If anyone would like an expired Gene Roddenberry Lost Universe phone card just send me a note and a stamped envelope and I’ll send it to you, send me a note first I only have about 10 left.
1970 “Keep on Trucking” Quote…