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.

History
In 198?, TBD

Comic strips

 * The Badly-Damaged Face Paints (1990-2021, 1991-2021 under the Moonlake Comics branding)
 * Doggone It, You Chicken! (1993-present)
 * Vampires Next Door (1996-present)
 * Luchador Café (1997-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)
 * The Athenaeum Wizardry (1996-present)
 * Night Creek (1997-present)
 * Legacy of the Valkyrie (1999-present)
 * The Badly-Damaged Face Paints (1999-present)
 * Ferd the Zombie Horse: The Supernatural Adventures (2000-present)
 * The Children of Superheroes (2000-present)
 * Project Prism (2001-present)
 * Olympus, USA (2001-present)
 * My Secret Life as a Vampire (2002-present)
 * Agent Wolf (2003-present)
 * Shanna: Bringer of the Apocalypse (2004-present)
 * Spies in the Future (2004-2008)
 * Ginny and the Odd Girls (2005-present)
 * Five Lives (2005-present)
 * Killing It (2005-present)
 * Lily the World Wanderer (2005-present)
 * The Powerful Heracles (2007-present)
 * Ghost Walkers (2009-present)
 * Blots (2011-present)
 * Branchnut 101 (2012-present)
 * Ares, The God of Tormenting (2013-present)
 * Shift (2014-present)
 * Andrew Jackson: Monster Slayer (2015-present)
 * The Cat President (2016-present)
 * Brittney the Witch! (2017-present)
 * Markus and Angela: Treasure Hunters (2019-present)
 * The Blood List (2021)

Comic book miniseries

 * The Immortal Ninja (2011)
 * The Flooded Earth (2012)
 * Daniel Frost and the Elemental Gun (2015)
 * Moonlake Heroes Unite (2019)
 * Moonlake Heroes Unite Again! (2021)
 * Adventures of Fiddlesticks (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 & Schuster soon to focus exclusively on film, television and streaming, 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.
 * The company has a policy that would have two issues release each month.
 * The reason behind this is due to it being more efficient to publish issues and keep readers invested.
 * Despite that, that policy is confirmed that it would not affect the comics with story arcs or the miniseries comics, with the former having 3 issues a month while the latter only having one issue a month.
 * Ares, The God of Tormenting is currently the only comic book series not to be affected, since the series, at times, can have a story arc.
 * 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 aims for a mix of live-action and animated.
 * During one interview, the Moonlake Comics company all use the Macintosh and iMac computers due to them being easier to use and can have them multi-task at once compared to Windows.