The Papercutz
PRINCIPALS
Executive Team:
Terry Nantier, CEO, founder of a leading
indie graphic novel publishing co.,
Jim Salicrup, Editor-in-Chief, formerly editor at Marvel
and founder of the Topps Comics line

Inspired by the success of the graphic novel in Europe, where he lived as a teenager, Terry Nantier decided to import this concept to the U.S. in the seventies when comics were stagnating here. He launched graphic novels in 1976 while studying for his bachelor's in communications at Syracuse University's Newhouse School of Public Communications. This pioneering concept was very slow to gain acceptance at first. After receiving his MBA from NYU Stern, Nantier was hired into the gruelingly competitive environment of product management at Colgate-Palmolive. He left Colgate when his company finally started taking off significantly past the mid-eighties, allowing him to devote himself full-time to it. He has since become a leading player in indie comics publishing and in what has become known as ''literary comics" aimed at the 18-34 age range. He is on the board of advisors of the New York Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art.

Jim Salicrup started at fifteen under Stan Lee at Marvel Comics, making his way up the ranks, eventually becoming editor of their flagship Spider-Man line of comic books where he relaunched the character in a bold new look that proved extremely popular, selling over two million copies, launching the career of Todd McFarlane (Spawn), as well as setting the tone for the eventual movies. Hired away by Topps, he founded their comic book line based on licensed properties, showing a great nose by snatching X-Files, Xena, and Hercules way before they became great hits. He pre-serialized X-Files in TV Guide in the early 90s, and is familiar with ways of making comic book characters visible OUTSIDE the comic book market place. He is on the board of trustees of the New York Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art (MOCCA).


(caricatures by Steve Brodner)