Headpress is a London based book publisher. It was founded in Manchester, England, in 1990 by David Flint, David Kerekes and David Slater in order to release, in Great Britain, Der Todesking by German director Jörg Buttgereit. With revenue generated from video sales of Der Todesking (a limited edition of 500 copies complete with a cheap postcard), Headpress the magazine was set up.
Headpress began book publishing in 1992 with a collection of comic strips entitled Killer Komix. This was followed in 1995 by Critical Vision, a collection of new essays and updated articles from early out-of-print editions of Headpress magazine. Headpress as of the late 2000s has published over fifty titles, although of the three founding members, only Kerekes remains.
The first in a series of films was released in 2010 under the collective banner of Headpress TV. These short films comprise interviews with some of the Headpress authors and artists over the years, as well as many of the subjects featured in the books and Headpress anthologies.
