Studio XD is a producer of comics. It was originally founded in summer of 1999 by Derek Liu (Lanzer), Long Vo

Long Vo

Long Vo is freelance Illustrator and Creative/Art Director.He is most notably known as one of the 3 original founders of Gaia Online, an English-language, anime-themed social networking and forums-based website...

 (VO), Josh Gainsbrugh (L0cke) and Charles Park (CP) when they joined forces to develop and produce ECHO, a comic series to be published by Image Comics

Image Comics

Image Comics is a United States comic book publisher. It was founded in 1992 by high-profile illustrators as a venue where creators could publish their material without giving up the copyrights to the characters they created, as creator-owned properties. It was immediately successful, and remains...

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Studio XD is best known for illustrating the X-Men: Evolution

X-Men: Evolution

X-Men: Evolution is an American animated television series about the Marvel Comics superhero team the X-Men. In this incarnation many of the characters are teenagers rather than adults...

comics

Comics

Comics denotes a hybrid medium having verbal side of its vocabulary tightly tied to its visual side in order to convey narrative or information only, the latter in case of non-fiction comics, seeking synergy by using both visual and verbal side in...

, but they also illustrate many other comics including Robotech

Robotech

Robotech is an 85-episode science fiction anime adaptation produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production Co., Ltd. and first released in the United States in 1985...

and Last Shot.

Derek Liu, Long Vo, Josh Gainsbrugh are also known as the founders of the website Gaia Online

Gaia Online

Gaia Online is an English-language, anime-themed social networking and forums-based website. Gaiaonline was founded in 2003. but the name was changed to GaiaOnline.com in 2003 from go-gaia by its owner, Gaia Interactive...

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