Moonlake Comics

Moonlake Comics is an independently-owned comic company being founded by Emilia Houghton and her husband Zachary Duncan, being founded in 1991, known for comic strips and comic-books. The Badly-Damaged Face Paints is the comic's flagship franchise with August being the mascot.

Comic strips

 * The Badly-Damaged Face Paints (1990-present, 1991-present under the Moonlake Comics branding)
 * Doggone It, You Chicken! (1993-present)
 * Luchador Café (1996-present)
 * Stacy's Evil Reflection (1998-present)
 * The Perilers (2001-present)
 * Comet 145 (2006-present)
 * Emma: Hero of the Jungle (2008-present)
 * Orcs Inc (2010-present)
 * Brandon vs. Landon (2015-present)

Comic books

 * Samara: The Ultimate Sheriff (1994-present)
 * The Dreamwalkers (1995-present)
 * Night Creek (1997-present)
 * The Badly-Damaged Face Paints (1999-present)
 * Ferd the Zombie Horse: The Supernatural Adventures (2000-present)
 * Agent Wolf (2003-present)
 * Shanna: Bringer of the Apocalypse (2004-present)
 * Spies in the Future (2004-2008)
 * My Secret Life as a Vampire (2005-present)
 * Ginny and the Odd Girls (2005-present)
 * Ghost Walkers (2009-present)
 * Blots (2011-present)
 * Branchnut 101 (2012-present)
 * Ares, The God of Tormenting (2013-present)
 * Andrew Jackson: Monster Slayer (2015-present)
 * Brittney the Witch! (2017-present)
 * Moonlake Heroes Unite (2019)
 * Moonlake Heroes Unite Again! (2021)
 * The Blood List (Summer 2021)

Tropes
See /Tropes.

ViacomCBS' rumored acquisition of Moonlake Comics
On August 2019, various rumors surfaced that ViacomCBS would buy the rights to Moonlake Comics for $5 million dollars. However, on May 2020, nine months after the rumors surfaced, ViacomCBS confirmed that they have no intentions of buying the comic company, especially due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and the fact the company intended to sell Simon and & Schuster soon, as it would only renew its ongoing deal, ultimately debunking the rumors.

Trivia

 * The comic creates comics targeted for different ages, like children, teens and adults.
 * In 2014, Viacom and CBS Corporation (merged into ViacomCBS in 2019) signed a 5-year deal with Moonlake Comics, being recently renewed in 2019 and currently set to expire in 2024.
 * The deal allows the company to produce film adaptions through Paramount Pictures as well as to produce television adaptions for CBS, MTV, Nickelodeon, and Showtime, with Nickelodeon mainly aiming for animated adaptions and CBS and Showtime aiming for live-action adaptions, while MTV handles more TBD.