Tony Caputo

Tony C. Caputo is an American author, visual artist, entrepreneur, and former publisher.¹

In 1985, Caputo founded NOW Comics and NOW Entertainment Corporation, a multimedia company that published comic books, children's periodicals, trade paperback books, and home videos of such characters as Speed Racer, the Terminator, The Real Ghostbusters, Mr. T & the T-Force, and The Green Hornet.²¹³ At its height in 1990, the company had $5 million in sales, 17 employees and 70 freelancers.⁴

Caputo ran NOW until 1994,⁵ briefly reviving the company from 2003 to 2005.

After leaving the comic book and entertainment business in 1994,⁵ Caputo moved into information technology, first with Ahrens Interactive in 1995, and then with HyperLOCK in 1996.⁶

From 2005 to 2010, Caputo worked for IBM.⁴

In the 2020s, he worked for Hitachi.⁴

While working at NOW, he authored the graphic novel Vespers,³ and wrote an article on the American comic book market,⁷ which included detailed market share reports for the first time.⁸

Caputo's nonfiction books include How To Self-Publish Your Own Comic Book (Watson-Guptill), Visual Storytelling: The Art and the Technique,⁹ Build Your Own Server (McGraw-Hill) and Digital Video Surveillance and Security (Elsevier/Reed). His articles have been published by ICv2.com.¹⁰