Ki-oon is a French manga publisher founded in October 2003 by Cécile Pournin and Ahmed Agne.
 It's mostly dedicated to releasing heroic fantasy.
 It released its first manga in March 2004, the first volume of "Element Line".
 The name "Ki-oon" comes from an onomatopoeia meaning "having the heart inflated with emotion".
 With an increase in revenue of 80% in 2009, Ki-oon is in 2010 the most important independent publisher of manga in France.
Badlands Unlimited is a New York-based independent publisher founded by the artist Paul Chan (artist) in 2010, and consists of artists Micaela Durand (Director), Ian Cheng (Editor at Large), Parker Bruce, and Ambika Subramaniam.
 The press publishes texts by and with other artists in the form of paperbacks, ebooks, digital group exhibitions, a stone book, and other various media.
 The press also does consulting on projects related to digital publishing for art institutions.
Tony Richards is a dark fantasy or horror author.
 He was born in 1956 in Greenford, England, and educated at University College School, Hampstead, before going on to study law at Middlesex University.
 Although he has written science fiction, mystery, and even mainstream stories, he is principally an author of supernatural, dark fantasy, and horror fiction.
 He has published three full-length novels, five novellas, and more than sixty short stories.
 His work has seen print in most major genre outlets, and he is a frequent contributor to Cemetery Dance Magazine and to anthologies compiled by the British editor Stephen Jones.
 An avid traveller, his fiction is often set in locations he has visited, most notably in his 2004 stand-alone novella Postcards from Terri, where the peripatetic heroine of the title goes to Hong Kong, Japan, Africa, Switzerland, Nicaragua, Istanbul, Budapest, Barcelona, Ottawa, Chicago, New York, Vancouver, and San Francisco during the course of the story.
 It is this quality that prompted the editor, publisher, and critic John Pelan to say of him: "He’s convincing … convincing enough that the locals will read about their city as described by Tony Richards and shudder.
 And that’s what we call a writers’ writer."
 He has twice been nominated, first in 1988 for the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel for "The Harvest Bride", and then in 2008 for the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection for "Going Back".
 He is married to Louise Richards, and lives in London.
 His latest novel, "Dark Rain", is set in the fictional town of Raine’s Landing, Massachusetts, and is intended to be the first of a series of books located there.
 The second such novel, "Night of Demons", is scheduled for publication in 2009.
Lawrence & Gibson is an independent publisher founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2005.
 A 2011 feature in The Dominion Post described it as the capital city's most promising independent publishers.
Science fiction (often shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as futuristic science and technology, space travel, time travel, faster than light travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
 Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a "literature of ideas".
 It usually avoids the supernatural, and unlike the related genre of fantasy, historically, science-fiction stories were intended to have a grounding in science-based fact or theory at the time the story was created, but this connection is now limited to hard science fiction.
Kiddiepunk is a Paris-based, independent publisher founded in 2002 by artist and filmmaker Michael Salerno.
 They specialize in releasing limited edition books and zines, as well as film and video projects.
Necropolitan Press, founded in 1993 by editor and author Jeffrey Thomas, is an independent publisher in the genres of horror, science-fiction, dark fantasy, and "the Unclassifiable."
 Necropolitan Press ceased producing new releases in 2001.
Samors has authored, co-authored and/or published twenty five books about Chicago's neighborhoods, downtown, Michigan Avenue, the Chicago River, Lake Shore Drive, and Chicago's airports, and in addition has written and published nostalgic books about growing up in Chicago in the eras of the 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.
 His book, co-authored with Michael Williams, "The Old Chicago Neighborhood: Remembering Chicago in the 1940s", won the 2003 Independent Publisher Book Award first place award in history, his book "Chicago in the Sixties: Remembering a Time of Change" won the 2007 Independent Publisher Book first place award in history, his book, "Downtown Chicago in Transition", co-authored with Eric Bronsky, won the 2008 Independent Publisher Book second place award for Midwest Region books, and his book, "The Rise of The Magnificent Mile," (co-authored with Eric Bronsky), won the 2009 Independent Publisher Book first place award in the Great Lakes region.
 He co-authored and published three new books in 2008, including "Clark Weber's Rock and Roll Radio", by Clark Weber, "Never Put Ketchup On A Hot Dog", by Bob Schwartz, and "The Rise of the Magnificent Mile", co-authored with Eric Bronsky.
 In 2010, he published and/or co-authored, with Tony Macaluso and Julia S. Bachrach, "Sounds of Chicago's Lakefront: A Celebration of the Grant Park Music Festival, "A Kid From The Windy City," co-authored by Lee B. Stern and Neal Samors, and "Paths Through The Wilderness: American Indian Trail Marker Trees" by Dennis Downes, with Neal Samors.
 Next, he was the publisher and co-author of "Chicago's Lake Shore Drive: Urban America's Most Beautiful Roadway" and served as publisher of "Chicago From The Sky: A Region Transformed" by Lawrence Okrent.
 In 2011, he published and co-authored, "Chicago's Classic Restaurants: Past, Present and Future" with Eric Bronsky and Robert Dauber, in 2013 he published and co-authored "Chicago's River At Work And At Play" with Steven Dahlman, and, in 2015, he published and co-authored "Now Arriving: Traveling To And From Chicago By Air, 90 Years of Flight" with Christopher Lynch.
 Dr. Samors publishes books through his company, Chicago's Books Press, an imprint of Chicago's Neighborhoods, Inc.
 He has a PhD and MALS from Northwestern University, an MA from Northern Illinois University and a BA from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
 In 2010, Dr. Samors was selected as a Prominent Alumnus by the Sullivan High School Alumni Association.
Buku FIXI is a Malaysian independent publisher founded in 2011 by filmmaker Amir Muhammad.
 The company specializes not only in contemporary urban fiction - both in Malay and English - but also Malay translations of foreign titles, and graphic novels.
 Some of these novels have also been adapted into film, bringing the publisher's name further into the Malaysian mainstream.
Brimstone Press was an Australian independent publisher of dark fiction (horror and dark fantasy).
 Brimstone Press was established in 2004 by Angela Challis and Shane Jiraiya Cummings and was based in Western Australia.

Question: Which independent publisher founded in 1993 by Jeffrey Thomas publishes horror, science-fiction, and dark fantasy?
Answer: Necropolitan Press