Asylum Publications
*Special thanks to Paul Burke and Asylum Publications for this*
We are raffling off 3 autographed copies of ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys‘ signed by author and co-founder Paul Burke!
*3 winners will be selected at random. Enter now for your chance to win!*
https://detroitbookfest.com/enter-to-win/
The raffle will run from Monday, October 14 to Sunday, October 20.
Asylum Publications
Asylum Publications is a new publishing company located in Metro Detroit. Owned by serial entrepreneur Paul Burke, Asylum is slated to publish 100 titles by Summer 2020.
One of their most recent offerings is a beautifully rendered book called ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys‘.
Paul Burke worked closely with Todd McFarlane to co-develop McFarlane Toys and he has created a book about the unusual and ever-interesting twists & turns in bringing this multi-million-dollar toy company to life.
At the time, Paul was Co-founder / co-CEO / Vice Chairman of TMP International, which McFarlane Toys was a division of and, fun fact, they also had a partial ownership stake in the Edmonton Oilers NHL hockey team.
Image courtesy of Spawn
McFarlane Toys started in 1994 as Todd’s Toys, after they detached from Mattel and became independent. They quickly became the world’s 4th largest toy company and the largest US action figure company in Japan.
McFarlane Toys originally made Spawn action figures based on Todd’s comic book series called Spawn. After those were wildly successful, they started producing other general horror, movie and sports figures.
Span logo courtesy of Spawn
Fun Fact:
The Spawn comic book series just received a Guinness World Record for issue 301, making it the Longest Running Creator-Owned Comic Book in history.
‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys’ is a fascinating book which you will enjoy immensely.
Biography of Paul Burke
Paul Burke (left) and Jack Faragasso (right) at Jack’s apartment in Manhattan NYC
Paul Burke is a well-known behind the scenes serial entrepreneur and financier whom typically does business on behalf of creators and artists.
Paul currently lives in Metro Detroit but has lived and traveled all over the world for business.
He has been a businessman for five decades and was involved in the management of rock band KISS in the 1970’s and even went on to found his own music publishing company, Stabur East Music / Can-Am Music, Inc.
In 1983 he got out of management and into publishing when he founded Stabur Graphics / Stabur Press publishing companies.
Stabur worked with some of the top cartoonists in the world and published several high-quality books, art prints, specialty books, books for Disney, Rocky Horror Picture Show, etc, until eventually merging with Caliber Comics, a company owned by his pal Gary Reed.
Among many other endeavors, Paul co-founded and was chairman of an automotive design and fabrication company, Blue Fusion, which became the 44th Global Tier One supplier to Ford Motor Company.
He re-organized a security mapping and documentation company for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
And he formed a company to advise private equity firms, EverGreen Capital Management and The Gores Group.
Stabur Home Video ‘Comic Book Greats’ (image courtesy of Stabur)
Over the years, Paul has interfaced with an impressive cross-section of pop-culture titans ranging from Stan Lee to Mad Magazine (Jack Davis and Bill Elder) to Bob Guccione (Penthouse) and others.
Paul Burke and Stan Lee even co-produced a 13-episode video series called ‘Comic Book Greats‘ from 1991-1992 for Stabur Home Video.
Paul also co-developed Deadworld Zombie Soda with Gary Reed. It started as a fun novelty joke, but sales unexpectedly took off and it became internationally popular.
Deadworld Zombie Soda (image courtesy of Deadworld)
Paul is currently involved with Asylum Publications, Source Point Press, Binary Press, and more.
Asylum Publications is scheduled to bring a number of books to market in all facets of pop culture, including publishing the fine art of 91-year-old Jack Faragasso, renowned New York artist and educator, in a follow-up to his ‘Early Photographs of Bettie Page’ book.
Asylum is working to make people aware of this great artist who has devoted his life to art, through a series of books and prints.
Dedd Fredd holding bottle of Asylum Zombie Soda (image courtesy of Asylum)
Asylum Publications
https://www.asylumpublications.com/
Source Point Press
Binary Press
https://www.facebook.com/binary.press/
McFarlane Toys
*Special thanks to Paul Burke and Asylum Publications for this*
We are raffling off 3 autographed copies of ‘The Early Years of McFarlane Toys‘ signed by author and co-founder Paul Burke!
*3 winners will be selected at random. Enter now for your chance to win!*
https://detroitbookfest.com/enter-to-win/
The raffle will run from Monday, October 14 to Sunday, October 20.
Stabur Home Video ‘Comic Book Greats’ (image courtesy of Stabur)
Asylum Zombie Soda (image courtesy of Asylum)
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