Shanghai People's Art Publishing House (1952 - Present) is a state-run Shanghai-based Chinese publishing company closely associated with the Chinese Communist Party. The firm was formed in 1952, when privates Shanghai publishers were reorganized into separate organizations, the East China People's Art Press and New Art Press. The name Shanghai People's Art Publishing House in 1954. A year later, in 1955 the New Art Press as absorbed into the Shanghai People's Art Publishing House. The firm remains active today and publishes regime-supported art and literature. In more recent years, it became known as the birthplace of Chinese comics.