Renegade Press

Renegade Press was an American comic book company, founded by Canadian Deni Loubert, that operated from 1984 to 1988. Notable titles published by Renegade included Flaming Carrot, Ms. Tree, and Normalman.

History
Loubert was publisher of Aardvark-Vanaheim until she and husband Dave Sim (owner and major contributor to Aardvark-Vanaheim) divorced, at which point she started Renegade and moved to the United States. With the move, all of Aardvark-Vanaheim's titles (with the exception of Cerebus) left that publisher to continue with Renegade. (These included Flaming Carrot Comics, Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire, normalman, Neil the Horse, and Ms. Tree.)

Although Renegade started in high-profile fashion, its titles suffered from low print runs. In early 1988, Renegade refit its publishing strategy, but suspended all publications later that year. In July 1989 it was announced that the publisher had shut down for good.

Controversy
In 1987, Loubert accepted an Inkpot Award on Steve Ditko's behalf (Renegade had published Ditko's World in 1986). Ditko refused the award, phoning Loubert to say, "Awards bleed the artist and make us compete against each other. They are the most horrible things in the world. How dare you accept this on my behalf." At Ditko's behest, Loubert returned the award to the San Diego Comic-Con organizers.

Titles

 * Agent Unknown
 * Amusing Stories
 * 3-D Zone Pack Vol. 2 (#6-10)
 * 3-D Zone Set
 * Barefootz
 * Cases of Sherlock Holmes
 * Cecil Kunkle Vol. 1 (1986)
 * Ditko's World Featuring...Static (actually Revolver #7-9)
 * Eternity Smith (#1-5, then moved to Hero Comics)
 * Flaming Carrot (1985) (#6-17)
 * French Ice
 * Friends
 * Gene Day's Black Zeppelin
 * Holiday Out
 * Howard Cruse's Barefootz: The Comix Book Stories
 * Journey: The Adventures of Wolverine MacAlistaire (moved to Fantagraphics before Renegade ceased publishing)
 * Kafka
 * Kilgore
 * Love Fantasy
 * Manimal
 * Maxwell Mouse Follies
 * Mechthings
 * Ms. Tree
 * Ms. Tree 3-D
 * Ms. Tree Summer Special
 * Ms. Tree's 1950'S 3-D Crime
 * Murder (actually Revolver #10-12)


 * Neil the Horse
 * normalman (1985) (#9-12,3-D Annual #1)
 * Open Season (moved to Strawberry Jam Comics)
 * Phony Pages
 * Renegade Romance
 * Revolver
 * Robot Comics
 * Roscoe The Dawg, Ace Detective
 * Shadows from the Grave
 * Silent Invasion (moved to Caliber Comics)
 * Spiral Cage
 * Starbikers
 * Starbinders
 * Strata
 * Suburban Nightmares
 * T-Minus-1
 * Tony Bravado: Trouble-Shooter
 * Trypto The Acid Dog
 * Valentino
 * Vicki Valentine
 * Wimmen's Comix #11-13
 * Wordsmith (moved to Caliber Comics)