Boom! Studios

'''Boom! Studios''' is a comic book and graphic novel publisher headquartered in Los Angeles, California, co-founded by Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby in 2005. The BOOM! Studios imprint publishes full-color science fiction, fantasy, action, horror and super-hero titles. Additional imprints include the all-ages KaBOOM! label (formerly named BOOM Kids!) and BOOM! Town, which publishes underground comix and literature-focused comics.

History with Disney comics
In 2008, Boom! signed a deal with the Walt Disney Company to produce comic books based on their properties and secured newsstand distribution as part of their new kid-friendly imprint, BOOM Kids! This began with a series of books based on Pixar films and The Muppets in March 2009, and was followed up with Boom! acquiring the continued publication of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Uncle Scrooge, Mickey Mouse and Friends, and Donald Duck and Friends.

Eventually, starting in June of 2010, Boom! Studios began publishing a line of comic books based on The Disney Afternoon, marking the first new comics based on the show to be published in the United States since 1998. The first of these was a new Darkwing Duck comic. At around the same time, old DuckTales comic stories, most of which had never been published in the United States before, were featured in issues 292-299 of Uncle Scrooge. After the successful launch of the Darkwing Duck comic, new comic books based on Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers and DuckTales were announced.

However, due in part to Disney buying out Marvel Comics in 2009, Boom!'s Disney comic line did not last much longer. The Pixar and Muppet titles were cancelled right around the time the Rescue Rangers comic began. The following year, Walt Disney's Comics and Stories, Uncle Scrooge, Mickey Mouse and Friends, and Donald Duck and Friends were all cancelled as well, and the Darkwing Duck and DuckTales comics were canned in November of 2011.

As of 2013, the Pixar and Muppet comics have since been reprinted by Marvel, who has also printed new comics based on the Pixar properties, as well as the last story arc intended for The Muppet Show Comic Book. However, the only new comics starring any of the "classic" Disney characters since then have been printed in the Minnie and Daisy: Best Friends Forever magazine.