Flying Buttress Publications Terry Nantier (born 1957) spent his teenage years living in Paris, developing an interest in European comics. he teamed with Chris Beall and Marc Minoustchine (Their tagline, referencing the architectural element of the
flying buttress, was "the support of a new medium.") NBM found success with such series as
Vicente Segrelles's
The Mercenary and
Hugo Pratt's
Corto Maltese. NBM also became known for its reprints of classic newspaper comic strips.
Wash Tubbs and Captain Easy reprinted the entire 1924–43 run of
Roy Crane’s strip in an 18-volume series with biographical and historical commentary by
Bill Blackbeard. With production and design by
Bhob Stewart, this series was published by NBM on a quarterly schedule from 1987 to 1992. In 1991, NBM created the Eurotica
erotic comics imprint, following that in 1995 with the Amerotica line. Leading off the Amerotica titles were
Skin Tight Orbit, volumes 1 and 2, erotic science fiction anthologies written by
Elaine Lee. In 1994, NBM created ComicsLit, its showcase literary imprint, which introduced
ComicsLit Magazine in 1995.
Rick Geary's long-running "Murder" series,
A Treasury of Victorian Murder and
A Treasury of XXth Century Murder, have both been published through ComicsLit. All through the 1990s NBM published translations of
Franco-Belgian comics as well as works by Geary,
Ted Rall, and other American authors. It was not until 1997 that NBM published their first actual comic books—in a magazine format—when they reprinted issues of Pratt's
Corto Maltese in a seven-issue limited series. In 2005, Nantier founded the companion publisher
Papercutz, which is devoted to family-friendly comic books and graphic novels.
Mad Cave Studios acquired Papercutz in 2022. In 2020 NBM began publishing a new American translation of the
Asterix series. ==Distribution==