Catalan Communications
| Founded | April 1983 |
|---|---|
| Founders | Bernd Metz, Herb Spiers, and Josep Toutain |
| Defunct | 1991 |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Headquarters location | 43 East 19th Street New York City |
| Key people | Bernd Metz Tom Leighton Elizabeth Bell |
| Publication types | Comics, trade paperbacks |
| Imprints | ComCat |
Catalan Communications was a New York City publishing company that existed from 1983 to 1991. Operated by Bernd Metz, Catalan Communications mainly focused on English-language translations of European graphic novels. These were presented as high-quality trade paperbacks, or comic albums — a European book format that American comic book readers were not yet accustomed to. Both the physical dimensions and the mature content were unfamiliar to U.S. audiences, who often referred to the format dismissively as "Euro-comics."
Metz became one of the first American publishers to introduce U.S. readership to European-style comics on a larger scale than the niche-market efforts undertaken by HM Communications – publisher of the groundbreaking Heavy Metal magazine – in the preceding decade.