About Us
About Thunder Comics
Thunder Comics is a content engine and financier that creates comic franchises with top talent from both the film/entertainment and comic book industries. We provide a platform for the brightest creative minds to share their unencumbered visions with the world.
Our Philosophy
“WE BELIEVE STORIES ARE REAL ESTATE.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS THE NEXT GOLD RUSH.
CREATORS SHOULD SHARE IN OWNERSHIP OF THEIR CREATIONS.”
Partners/Founders
Don was the co-creator and Executive Producer of History Channel’s drama series KNIGHTFALL and producer of critically-acclaimed films THE FOUNDER starring Michael Keaton, and KILL THE MESSENGER starring two-time Academy-Award nominated actor Jeremy Renner. Handfield recently scripted an adaptation of the graphic novel UNIKORN for Armory Films (Mudbound, Peanut Butter Falcon) with Debbie Berman (editor of Black Panther, Captain Marvel, and Spider-Man: Homecoming) attached to direct. Handfield is a partner and board member of top-indie comic label Scout Comics and his original comic series THE RIFT was optioned by Steven Spielberg and produced as the season finale for the Apple + reboot of Amazing Stories. Handfield is a fellow of the WGA Showrunner Training Program, the Film Independent’s Director’s Lab, and was named one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine.
Christopher Lemole and Tim Zajaros are the co-founders of the prolific film finance and production company, Armory Films, nurturing distinctive stories into groundbreaking films since 2013. Their projects include THE PEANUT BUTTER FALCON, starring Shia LaBeouf and Dakota Johnson which received the Narrative Spotlight Audience Award out of its SXSW premiere, 4-time Academy Award-nominated Netflix feature MUDBOUND, starring Carey Mulligan and Garrett Hedlund, Joe Penna’s ARCTIC, starring Mads Mikkelsen, and Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair’s horror/thriller MOM AND DAD, which received rave reviews when it premiered in the Midnight Madness section at the Toronto International Film Festival.
