AudioComics Company
| Industry | Sound design |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 |
| Website | audiocomicscompany |
AudioComics Company is an audio production company that adapts comic books, graphic novels, and original works. It was founded in 2010, and expanded under the producers William Dufris, Lance Roger Axt, and Elaine Lee. Their productions have earned critical acclaim and awards in the United States and abroad, and have been cited as a "game changer" in the field of audio drama.
The company produces full-cast audio adventures, based on licensed properties and original works from the world of comic books, graphic novels, and genre fiction, and distributes them by MP3, digital download, and CDs. The company has its origins in Play it by Ear Productions, an audio theatre company run by producer/writer/actor Lance Roger Axt to adapt original plays for radio and digital mediums. Producer/actor William Dufris, known as the voice of the cartoon character Bob The Builder, co-founded AudioComics Company with Axt in 2010 initially to adapt comics and graphic novels as audio productions, with full voice casts, sound effects, and musical scores.
Their first production in 2010 was an adaption of the science fiction spoof Starstruck, a stage play written by its director and star Elaine Lee and designed by illustrator Michael Wm. Kaluta. Lee wrote the new audio adaption, and participated in the voice cast along with her son, actor Brennan Lee Mulligan. After the success of this project, Lee joined Dufris and Axt as a co-producer in their successive productions.
Since 2010, the AudioComics Company has adapted comics projects like Starstruck,Titanium Rain,Molly Danger,Perhapanauts, and Locke & Key. They expanded to production of new stories of Pulp magazine characters like The Domino Lady in 2012; actor Karen Stilwell reprised this role in the 2013 adaption of Moonstone Comics' "Battle For LA", a team-up story starring other public domain heroes like The Black Bat, The Phantom Detective, Airboy, and Secret Agent X. They continued into new pulp fiction starring detective Honey West, adapted by Elaine Lee from a Moonstone Comics series she had created with artist Ronn Sutton. The company branched into original genre fiction with adaptations of Tom Kirkbride's young adult book Gamadin and Jeffery Deaver's thriller The Starling Project.
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