13 Flames Empire is an independent comic book publisher based in Victoria, British Columbia founded by Ira Hunter and Robin Thompson in 1999.
13 Flames Empire's comics target Mature Readers as they contain disturbing, horrifying, obscene, profane, and immoral material; they often have satanic or horror themes.
However, they "are tongue in cheek, Evil Dead kind of funny"; Ira says that he has "a pretty sick and twisted, over-the-top sense of humour.
Ira entered one called Corpus Delecti (The Passion of Zombie Jesus), and surprised everyone by taking first place.
[4] 13 Flames Empire has had booth H02 in the small press section of the San Diego Comic Convention since 2000.