While on a recent trip to Spain, Matt Kindt, the creator of such independent comics as Mind MGMT and Dept. H, was admiring the works Pablo Picasso in the artist’s museum in Barcelona. One thing he noticed was the progression of the artist, who began in realism and saw his style evolve to cubism and beyond.

“To me, I saw someone that was bored of doing the same thing the same way,” said Kindt, who is also known as co-writer of the Keanu Reeves comic BRZRKR, which became the biggest-selling indie comic this century. “I’m trying to find new ways to stay engaged in comics.”

With that ethos powering the electricity in his artist’s brain, the Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated Kindt has partnered with Oni Press, the indie powerhouse publisher behind the Scott Pilgrim graphic novels, for new publishing and media partnership that will see the acclaimed creator bring his Flux House publishing imprint to Oni for an array of new series beginning in summer 2026.

“Imprints, especially in the world of independent comics, are really hard to justify,” said Oni’s president and publisher Hunter Gorinson. “In order to make them relevant and fresh, you have to put in a tremendous amount of energy to keep these things up, while servicing the bigger master brand. But Matt has enough ideas to power 1,000 comic books companies into the sun so if anything, what we’re trying to do with Flux House is make it bigger, bolder, weirder than it’s been reflected in its current incarnation on comic book stands.”

The deal not only promises new comics but, according to Kindt and Gorinson, the two parties have brokered a large-scale acquisition of media rights for more than 20 properties in the Flux House library.

Among those titles are 3 Story: The Secret History of the Giant Man, BANG! (co-created with Wilfredo Torres), Hairball (co-created with Tyler Jenkins), If You Find This, I’m Already Dead (co-created with Dan McDaid), Spy Superb (co-created with Sharlene Kindt), and over a dozen or two more.

Development of the Flux House library, which will span film, television, animation, video games, podcast audio, and more, will be led internally by Oni with Kindt serving as a producer alongside Gorinson, Jeremy Colfer, and David Steward II, the chairman of the Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group and CEO of Polarity, Oni’s parent company.

“I wanted to put all of our books where they would be safe and wanted someone who would be a good steward of the books,” Kindt said of the media rights deal. “Every artist I work with, we love making comics. And this provides us the freedom to keep doing what we’re doing.”

“Spanning comics publishing, film and television, gaming, licensing, and more, this newly minted partnership is unprecedented in scope and scale across Oni’s nearly 30-year history,” said Steward in a statement.

Flux House was previously ensconced at Dark Horse. Kindt worked with Gorinson through several companies, including Boom! and upstart Bad Idea, admiring the executive’s passion for the tumultuous comic industry. Gorinson recruited Kindt for Oni’s 2024 relaunch of the iconic EC Comics horror brand, which saw the writer-illustrator contribute to titles including Epitaphs from the Abyss, Catacomb of Torment, and Cruel Universe. The relaunch became a best-seller and garnered an Eisner and a Ringo Award nomination.

For Oni, Kindt will have two books out the gate, beginning in mid-2026. First up will me Mind MGMT: New and Improved, a new ongoing title he is writing and illustrating and which launches in June.

The original series ran from 2012 to 2015 via Dark Horse and was a heady and experimental mix of spies, rogue agents, and psychic powers. Kindt had no intention no returning to that world but noted, “Sometimes the idea comes, and you have no choice.”

Then, come August, will debut a 12-issue mini-series titled Fort Psycho, described as a Mission: Impossible meets Lost in which a disgraced strike team finds itself on a tropical island paradise stocked with trained killers, secret betrayals, and the long-buried truth about the mission that brought them there. Brian Hurtt, the co-creator and artist behind Western fantasy The Sixth Gun, and with whom Kindt shares his St. Louis area studio space, is drawing that book.

“I know it sounds hyperbolic, but it is kind of like a Watchmen-level book where you’re taking the archetypes of a G.I Joe or Mission: Impossible and deconstructing them in a new and inventive way that is built like a Swiss watch building towards a giant finale,” enthused Gorinson.

Said Kindt, “Every book I’m working on I think is the best book I’ve ever done, but that one may, for real, be the best book.”

A third book, Flux House Presents, is also being planned for late 2026.

For Kindt, this new chapter is an attempt to keep his artistic side engaged and to find new ways to get his books to readers in an industry that is going through changes.

For Oni, it’s a chance to make a mark with unique comics in a media landscape fraught with sameness.

“We at Oni want to put comics in the center of what we’re doing,” says Gorinson. “Despite the dimensions of Flux House and our broader deal with Matt and his creators, we are not some sort of transmedia operation. If we can’t make great comics and make the comics stand on their own, why are we running a comic book company?”

Oni and Kindt are repped by WME. Kindt is additionally repped by Matt Sugarman of Weintraub Tobin and Charlie Olsen of InkWell Management.

Check out the covers for the two books below.