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{{Short description|Defunct American publishing company}}
{{Infobox publisher
| name = Tekno Comix
| founded          = 1993
| founder          = [[Laurie Silvers]]<br />[[Mitchell Rubenstein]]
| status           = Defunct, [[1997 in comics|1997]]
| image            = 
| headquarters     = [[Boca Raton, Florida]]
| country          = [[United States]]
| keypeople        = 
| parent           = [[Big Entertainment]]
| publications     = [[Comic books]]
| divisions        = 
| imprints         = 
| url              = 
}}
'''Tekno Comix''' was an American publishing company that produced [[comic book]]s from 1995 to 1997.

==History==
The company was founded by [[Laurie Silvers]] and [[Mitchell Rubenstein]] as a division of their publicly traded company, [[Big Entertainment]].<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Tekno-Comix Debuts First Titles|magazine=[[Electronic Gaming Monthly]]|issue=63|publisher=[[Ziff Davis]]|date=October 1994|page=232}}</ref> Tekno Comix publications featured characters and situations created by celebrity authors and others,<ref>"Newswatch: Miscellaneous News: Big Entertainment Hires Gaiman, Nimoy, Spillane, and Others," ''The Comics Journal'' #167 (April 1994), p. 30.</ref> but were primarily scripted and illustrated by freelance comics creators.

The company debuted its first comics in 1995, but promotional pamphlets and t-shirts exist from 1993 and 1994.<ref>{{cite press release |author=<!--Not stated--> |title=Big Entertainment Presents Tekno Comix |location=Boca Raton, FL |date=1993}}</ref>

The Tekno Comix brand was discontinued in 1996, though books featuring the same characters continued were published with Big Entertainment branding into 1997. Big Entertainment continues as [[Hollywood Media Corp]], which controls Tekno Comix intellectual property.<ref>[https://archive.today/20120903185749/http://www.hollywood.com/about_us/info/id/468707 Hollywood Media Corp. (NASDAQ: HOLL) - Corporate Profile at Hollywood.com<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>

==Titles==
* ''Beach High'', #1 (1997), under Big Entertainment imprint
* [[Gene Roddenberry]]'s ''Lost Universe'', # 1–7 (1995)
* Gene Roddenberry's ''Xander in Lost Universe'', #0–8 (1995–1996)
* [[Isaac Asimov]]'s ''I-Bots''
**v1, #1–7 (1995–1996)
**v2, #1–9 (1996–1997), under Big Entertainment imprint
* [[John Jakes]]' ''Mullkon Empire'', #1–6 (1995–1996)
* [[Leonard Nimoy]]'s ''[[Primortals]]''
**v1, #1–15 (1995)
**''Origins'', #1–2 (1995)
**v2, #1–8 (1996), under Big Entertainment imprint
* [[Mickey Spillane]]'s ''[[Mike Danger]]''
**v1, #1–11 (1995–1996)
**v2, #1–10 (1996–1997), under Big Entertainment imprint
* [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Lady Justice (comics)|Lady Justice]]''
**v1, #1–11 (1995–1996)
**v2, #1–9 (1996–1997), under Big Entertainment imprint
* Neil Gaiman's ''[[Mr. Hero the Newmatic Man]]''
**v1, #1–17 (1995–1996)
**v2, #1 (1996), under Big Entertainment imprint
* Neil Gaiman's ''Phage: Shadow Death'', #1–6 (1996), under Big Entertainment imprint
* Neil Gaiman's ''Teknophage''
**v1, #1–10 (1995–1996)
**''Teknophage versus Zeerus'', #1 (1996), under Big Entertainment imprint
* Neil Gaiman's ''Wheel of Worlds'', #0–1 (1995–1996)
* [[Tad Williams]]' ''Mirror World: Rain'', #0–1 (1997), under Big Entertainment imprint
* ''Tekno Comix Handbook'', #1 (1996)
* ''Neuro Jack'', #1 (1996), under Big Entertainment imprint

==Notes==
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==References==
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