Tony Caputo
American author, visual artist, entrepreneur, and former publisher
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Career
In 1985, Caputo founded NOW Comics and NOW Entertainment Corporation, a multimedia company that published comic books, children's periodicals, trade paperback books, and home videos of such characters as Speed Racer, the Terminator, The Real Ghostbusters, Mr. T & the T-Force, and The Green Hornet.[3][2][4] Caputo was active in comics fandom, and he founded NOW Comics with some of the people he had worked with on fanzines.[5] At its height in 1990, the company had $5 million in sales, 17 employees and 70 freelancers.[6]
Caputo ran NOW until 1994,[7] briefly reviving the company from 2003 to 2005.[8]
After leaving the comic book and entertainment business in 1994,[7] Caputo moved into information technology, first with Ahrens Interactive in 1995, and then with HyperLOCK in 1996.[9]
Books and articles
While working at NOW, he authored the graphic novel Vespers,[4] and wrote an article on the American comic book market,[10] which included detailed market share reports for the first time.[11]
Caputo's nonfiction books include How To Self-Publish Your Own Comic Book (Watson-Guptill), Visual Storytelling: The Art and the Technique,[12] Build Your Own Server (McGraw-Hill) and Digital Video Surveillance and Security (Elsevier/Reed). His articles have been published by ICv2.com.[13]