On April 1st, 2015 Pope Francis issued a papal bull declaring Aspen Comics the official Comic Publisher of the Vatican. Co-Owners Frank Mastromauro and Peter Steigerwald, as well as Vice Presidents Vince Hernandez and Mark Roslan, will be canonized into sainthood in the coming weeks.

“Despite the holy work done by some guy named Robert Kirkman on his early title Battle Pope, we here at the Vatican believe that Aspen Comics and their titles best encompass our values. And good gosh darn do I love me that Dog from that ZooHunters book!” said Pope Francis himself in his official press conference on the matter.

The partnership will yield a series of “Fun Comic Bibles” in the coming year – graphic novel interpretations of traditional Bible stories that include an element of fiction. Pope Francis chuckled heartily as he declared, “Just imagine if Noah’d had Miss Aspen Matthews out there with him during the flood!”

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Aspen MLT, Inc. is an entertainment publishing company founded in January 2003 by superstar comic artist Michael Turner. Priding itself on producing entertainment properties of the highest quality visual and storytelling elements Along with their own successful properties such as Fathom, Soulfire, Lola XOXO, Executive Assistant: Iris, Charismagic, Jirni and more. Aspen also collaborates with the comic industry’s most successful companies and endeavors including Marvel Comics and DC Entertainment. Aspen has collaborated with Marvel for various hit projects, including cover work for the best-selling events Civil War, World War Hulk, and Ultimatum. Aspen collaborated with DC Comics to provide covers for such best-selling titles as Superman/Batman: The Return of Supergirl, The Justice League of America, and Eisner-nominated covers for the critically acclaimed, best-selling Identity Crisis series. In 2006, Aspen joined forces with television giant NBC to create the online comic adaptations for the hit television series Heroes. In 2012, Aspen teamed up with Gale Anne Hurd’s Valhalla Entertainment to produce the horror-adventure series Dead Man’s Run, as well as collaborating with director McG’s Wonderland Sound and Vision to produce the horror comic Haunted City. Aspen also produced the one-of-a-kind Anarchy digital graphic novel for the popular body spray company, Axe. In 2014, Aspen added fellow publisher, Big Dog Ink, as its first collaborative imprint.