| Otter Press | |
| Founded: | 1998 |
| Founder: | Rik Booth, Ross Alexander |
| Headquarters: | Sydney, New South Wales |
| Country: | Australia |
| Publications: | Comics |
| Genre: | Humor, Funny animal |
| Url: | http://www.otterpress.com.au |
Otter Press is an Australian comic book publishing company, which releases the American Simpsons Comics series in Australia. Otter began publishing in 1998 with Simpsons Comics #32, and have published hundreds of different Simpsons books since then, spanning over ten series. They have also published various anime, movie, and other graphic novels.
Simpsons Comics were initially published in Australia by Trielle Corporation (Trielle Komix), between 1993 and 1997. In 1998 Trielle went into liquidation at which time Rik Booth and Ross Alexander approached Bongo Comics, the American producers of Simpson Comics and secured the Australasian publishing rights to the comics. Booth had previously worked as a consultant for Marvel Comics in the Australasian market. They then established Otter Press, with their first issue of Simpsons Comics (Issue No. 32) released in 1998.
The comics were originally printed bi-monthly, but due to popular demand, earlier issues were released every month that a "new" edition was unavailable. Issues #15 to #31 were released between 1999 and 2001 in four American trade paperback editions.
The Bart Simpson comics series, for the first 15 issues, was padded out to 64 pages with a free Radioactive Man issue inside. Later editions dropped Radioactive Man, and combined two US comics into one release. In 2008, Otter Press began releasing Bart Simpson comics every two months instead of their old quarterly schedule. Recent editions now alternate between reprinting two US editions of the comic in a single issue, with the next issue containing one US edition and older stories taken from the One Shot Wonders series.
Otter Press also published titles featuring Looney Tunes characters, Scooby-Doo, and SpongeBob SquarePants. They have also issued one-shot comic book movie adaptations (including Batman Begins, X-Men: The Last Stand) as well as magazines based on popular toy lines, such as Action Man Magazine.Currently their page is shut down as well as their comics which they stopped making a couple years back. So there is no longer new issues of any of their series of comics as of 2018.