Lochlanach Comics (Grand Union)

Lochlanach Comics, is a comic book publishing company located out of Birka, Tjust and is the Ascomanni Union's largest comic book publisher; and is also one of the largest and most popular publishers in the world. Founded in 1903 by local Birka native Aron Johansson and a friend he had met in university by the name of Klas Wang. Johansson was an aspiring artist and was credited for his unique drawings that could blend both a cartoonish style and a very olden serious artwork. Wang was already in his third year of university wanting to be an author to publish one of his books. Though Wang's book was well received by his professors, they noted that he was very heavy in the book with detail of the background and the characters, instead of working on more dialogue and progressing the plot of said stories. As they reached the end of the year, when Johansson was having trouble coming up with a muse, he read a section of his roommates' book, and began drawing and detailing the first chapter scene by scene. Eventually, Wang found out his roommate was using his book to find inspiration for his drawings; though instead of being furious of his roommate and friend stealing his work, he saw something that could help blend his talent for writing and his friend's unique style of drawing together.

Start of Something Great
Eventually Wang and Johansson got to work on rewriting and drawing Wang's novel he wished to publish. Though Johansson had an idea to help see if people actually wanted to buy his book, so they planned on releasing the first chapter of the book as it's own separate issue, and would sell them to the students and professors on campus. They sold roughly 63,000 issues of the first chapter alone, out of the possible 110,000 students on campus. Johansson and Wang eventually released a full version of their book with roughly 71,000 of the students buying the full book. Wang and Johansson made enough money to actually pay for their entire tuition and more to save for the rest of their life. This may have been a one time issue had a Jutland native had not seen the potential in the artist and author. Ola Clausen famous owner of Jutland Printing, the Ascomanni Union's largest publisher of books, cartoons, and newspapers; had flown both Wang and Johansson out to Jellings and offered them a contract to publish the chapters of their book into special issues to help expose the book to a much larger audience and improve Jutland Printing's falling readership and revenue. Wang and Johansson eventually struck a deal to provide them with a majority of the profits from the profit of the issues and full creative control of any future issues they would write.

Current Running Issues
Current running issues as of 2015, and by rank of popularity
 * 1) Ascomanni Legends (1903-)
 * 2) The Almighty Thor (1903-)
 * 3) Loki, The Trickster God (1947-)
 * 4) Odin Allfather (1921-)
 * 5) Queen of Valkyries Freya (1965-)
 * 6) Fenrir Unbound (1979-)
 * 7) Tyr & Ullr, Glorious Law Givers (1932-)
 * 8) Underworld Goddess Hel (1954-)
 * 9) Father of Frost, Ymir (1988-)
 * 10) Champions of the Pantheon (1923-)
 * 11) King of Gods Ares (1988-)
 * 12) God of all Oceans, Poseidon (1927-)
 * 13) Apollo & Hermes (1990-)
 * 14) Hades, Underworld Chronicles (1961-)
 * 15) Goddesses of Olympus (1992-)
 * 16) * Queen of Gods Aphrodite
 * 17) * Huntress Artemis
 * 18) * Counselor Athena
 * 19) Heroes of Sand (1948-)
 * 20) Anubis, Death Walker (1948-)
 * 21) Weaver of Fate, Neith (1975-)
 * 22) Broken God Osiris (1956-)
 * 23) Elementals (1981-)
 * 24) * Earth Guardian Geb
 * 25) * Sky Guardian Isis
 * 26) * Fire Guardian Ra
 * 27) * Water Guardian Sobek
 * 28) Beastials, Anhur & Bastet (1983-)
 * 29) Tales of the East (1968-)
 * 30) Journey of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong (1968-)
 * 31) Guan Yu, Saint of War (1974-)
 * 32) Rama and Avatars (1983-)
 * 33) Defenders of Mortals (2000-)
 * 34) * God of Rivers, He Bo
 * 35) * Earth's Greatest Guardian, Hou Yi
 * 36) * The Third Lotus Prince, Ne Zha
 * 37) Purifying Flame, Agni (1997-)
 * 38) Kali, Highness of Destruction (1990-)
 * 39) Setting Sun (1988-)
 * 40) Sun Set Soldiers (1988-)
 * 41) * God of Rain, Tlaloc
 * 42) * Howler Ozomatli
 * 43) * Moon Queen, Awilix
 * 44) * Hidden Jaguar Sun, Xbalanque

Current defunct issues as of 2015
 * God of War Ares (1948-1988)
 * King of Gods Zeus (1923-1988)
 * Apollo (1955-1990)
 * Hermes (1955-1990)
 * King of the Underworld Hades (1936-1961)
 * Aphrodite, Goddess of Beauty (1959-1980)
 * Tales of the Hunt, Artemis (1960- 1988)
 * Athena, Wisdom for All (1952-1991)