RanXerox

Ranxerox (also styled RanXerox) is an Italian science fiction graphic novel series by writer Stefano Tamburini and artist Tanino Liberatore, two Italian comics creators who had worked on such magazines as Cannibale and Frigidaire. Conceived as a bizarre antihero, Ranxerox is a mechanical creature made from Xerox photocopier parts.

At first (1978, in Italian, in Cannibale) the name was "Rank Xerox", identical to that of a joint venture between the Xerox Corporation of the U.S. and The Rank Organisation of the U.K., the latter of which manufactures and markets Xerox equipment in Europe. Due to a threatened lawsuit by Rank Xerox for using their trademarked name, Tamburini changed it to "RanXerox/Ranxerox" (1980, also in Italian, in Frigidaire). The name "Ranx" has also been used in some cases. The first time Ranxerox was published in English is in the July 1983 issue of Heavy Metal. Then came many more issues of Heavy Metal, and novels, featuring Ranxerox (such as Ranxerox in America).