Cool Beans World is a, now-defunct, subscription website which published animated or partially animated web comics. It was conceived by Cool Beans Productions

Cool Beans Productions

Cool Beans Productions is a defunct multimedia company that was based in Sheffield. They were known for their web comic design, web publishing and digital animations.-History:The company was founded in 1996 as an offshoot to the localisation company Polylang...

, a design, animation and production company based in Sheffield, England. Contributors included, amongst others, UK-based comic book creators Pat Mills

Pat Mills

Pat Mills, nicknamed 'the godfather of British comics', is a comics writer and editor who, along with John Wagner, revitalised British boys comics in the 1970s, and has remained a leading light in British comics ever since....

, Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley

Simon Bisley is a British comics artist best known for his 1990s work on ABC Warriors, Lobo and Sláine. His style, reliant on paints, acrylics, inks and multiple-mediums, is strongly influenced by Frank Frazetta, Bill Sienkiewicz, Gustav Klimt, Salvador Dalí, Egon Schiele, and Richard Corben...

, John Bolton and Kevin O'Neill

Kevin O'Neill (comics)

Kevin O'Neill is an English comic book illustrator best known as the co-creator of Nemesis the Warlock, Marshal Law , and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen .-Early career:...

, and the author Clive Barker

Clive Barker

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. Serialised content included Scarlet Traces

Scarlet Traces

Scarlet Traces is a comic story of the Steampunk genre, written by Ian Edginton and illustrated by D'Israeli. It was original published online before being serialised in 2002. A sequel, Scarlet Traces: The Great Game, followed in 2006....

 and Marshal Law.

After a high profile publicity campaign including extensive print advertising, the website was launched in 2001. It won Internet Magazine's "Site of the Month" award in October 2001.

When Cool Beans Productions went into administrative receivership in May 2002, Cool Beans World ceased operation. The domain http://www.coolbeansworld.com/ is untenanted at the time of writing.

Comics included: Dark Frankenstein, Marshall Law, Scarlet Traces, Kingdom of the Wicked, The Yattering & Jack, Someplace Strange, Bone'Ed.

CG short films: Saintly, Marshall Law