El Capitan Books is an American

United States

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 comic book

Comic book

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 and graphic novel

Graphic novel

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 publisher, which exclusively publishes the work of its founder, David Lapham

David Lapham

David Lapham is an Eisner Award winning American comic book writer, artist, and cartoonist, best known for his work on his groundbreaking independent comic book Stray Bullets.-Biography:...

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El Capitan's first release was Stray Bullets

Stray Bullets

Stray Bullets is an independent American comic book series published in black and white by El Capitan Books. It is written and drawn by David Lapham....

#1 in 1995, and the company is still best known for publishing this comic book series which continues today.

Other series which it has released include Murder Me Dead #1-9 (2000–2001) and The Parallax Man

The Parallax Man

The Parallax Man is a six issue American independent colour comic book which was originally solicited for publication by El Capitan Books in Autumn 2005...

(2005).

The company is also well known for its collections of Stray Bullets' stories (Innocence of Nihilism, Somewhere Out West, Other People, and Dark Days) in large European-style hardcover editions (and more recently in small US comic size softcover editions).