Icon Comics

Icon Comics is an imprint of Marvel Comics for creator-owned titles, designed to keep select "A-list" creators producing for Marvel rather than seeing them take creator-owned work to other publishers.
History.
It was launched in 2004 with Michael Avon Oeming and Brian Michael Bendis' superhero/detective series "Powers" and David Mack's "Kabuki" moving to the imprint, both from Image Comics. In June 2005 the imprint's third title J. Michael Straczynski's "Dream Police" was launched, followed in September by "The Book of Lost Souls", also from Straczynski. "Criminal" by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips is an ongoing crime comic also published by Icon.
Mark Millar has described the deal with Icon in relation to his "Kick-Ass" series:
Titles.
Following the move of Brian Michael Bendis (as well as all of his comics) to DC Comics in 2017, the Icon imprint has been dormant.