Kymera Press

Kymera Press
Founder(s):	D. Lynn Smith, Maggie Field
Established:	2013
Country:	United States
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Kymera Press, Inc. is a woman-owned comics publishing company based out of Las Vegas, Nevada, whose mission is to promote women artists and creators in comics and to publish women-friendly comics.

History

The company was founded by writer D. Lynn Smith when her former agent, Maggie Field, suggested she turn her unproduced television pilot script, Gates of Midnight, into a comic book. After spending two years delving into the independent comics scene and researching comics as both a medium and an industry, Smith decided that not only did she want to publish her own comic, she also wanted to provide an outlet for other talented women being overlooked by the comics industry at large.

Titles

All series lettered by Saida Temofonte

• Gates of Midnight (written by D. Lynn Smith, art by Amelia Woo, colored by Mirana Reveier) follows combat medic veteran Raven Moon as she investigates her father's death and discovers a mysterious side of New York City, a dark world where monsters and ancient gods come and go.
• Pet Noir (written by Pati Nagle, pencilled by Anna Giovannini, inked by Laurie Foster, and colored by Liezl Buenaventura), adapted from Nagle's novel of the same name, stars a cybernetic cat secret agent named Leon as he navigates the seamy underbelly of Gamma Station, where he is indentured until he works off the cost of his creation.
• Mary Shelley Presents (written by Nancy Holder, art by Amelia Woo, colored by Sandra Molina) adapts Victorian-era horror short stories by women. Issue 1 is Elizabeth Gaskell's "The Old Nurse’s Story".
• Dragons by the Yard (written by Kelly Swails, pencilled by Paola Amormino, inked by Laurie Foster, colored by Sandra Molina) is the story of Anna, a woman who handcrafts all things dragon and sells them at the Rose Bowl Swap Meet in Pasadena, California. But her favorites, her babies, are her crystal dragons--beautiful little stuffed dragons with semi-precious crystals sewn into them. When Anna meets a strange woman at the swap meet who sells her some extraordinary fabric, she gets more than she bargained for.
• Ivory Ghosts (written by Caitlin O'Connell, pencilled by Debora Carita, inked by Laurie Foster, colored by Liezl Buenaventura), based on O'Connell's novel of the same name, is a thriller set against the illegal ivory poaching trade in Africa. Debuts at C2E2 2018.