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Canadian art design studio and comic book publisher
"Dreamwave" redirects here. For the music genre, see synthwave.
Dreamwave Productions was a Canadian art design studio and comic book publisher founded in 1996. Best known for its comic book adaptations of Transformers, the company shut down on January 4, 2005.
Brothers Pat Lee and Roger Lee founded Dreamwave Productions in Toronto, Canada in 1996 as an imprint under Image Comics, publishing their first mini-series Darkminds. Pat maintained artistic control while Roger managed the business operations. Dreamwave split off from Image Comics in April 2002.
Dreamwave acquired the license for the Transformers toyline from Hasbro in December 2001. The first mini-series, written by Chris Sarracini & drawn by Pat Lee and based on the Transformers: Generation 1 characters, was the top-selling book on the sales charts for its entire run. Various Transformers ongoing and limited series followed, covering various continuities within the Transformers franchise.
On January 4, 2005, Dreamwave announced that it had gone out of business and closed down, citing "the shrinking comic book market combined with a weak U.S. dollar" as the reason for their closure.
According to the terms of the contract the company had with Federal Express, its freelancers were left liable for the cost of shipping their unpublished, unpaid for work to Canada. Guido Guidi and Don Figueroa were two such freelancers affected.
After the company's bankruptcy in January 2005, Dreamwave's assets were auctioned off on August 2, 2005 and purchased by Canadian entrepreneur Christian Dery, who planned to relaunch its original properties. However, the new Dreamwave have not published nor announced the publishing of any titles since the 2005 announcement.
IDW Publishing acquired the Transformers license in May 2005 and began publishing new Transformers comics in 2006.
Stump, Greg (July 2005). "Transformers Line Picked Up by IDW, Though Creators Still Have Reason to Gripe". The Comics Journal (269): 53. ISSN0194-7869.
1980 - Arthur's Valentine
1981 - The True Francine (later republished and retitled in 1996 as "Arthur and the True Francine")
1982 - Arthur Goes to Camp
1982 - Arthur's Halloween
1983 - Arthur's April Fool
1983 - Arthur's Thanksgiving
1984 - Arthur's Christmas
1985 - Arthur's Tooth
1987 - Arthur's Baby
1989 - Arthur's Birthday
1990 - Arthur's Pet Business
1991 - Arthur Meets the President
1992 - Arthur Babysits
1993 - Arthur's Family Vacation
1993 - Arthur's New Puppy
1994 - Arthur's Chicken Pox
1994 - Arthur's First Sleepover
1995 - Arthur's TV Trouble
1996 - Arthur Writes a Story
1997 - Arthur's Computer Disaster
1998 - Arthur Lost and Found
1999 - Arthur's Underwear
2000 - Arthur's Teacher Moves In
2011 - Arthur Turns Green
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