Shanda Fantasy Arts is an Arkansas-based comic publishing company that was founded by Mike and Carole Curtis. It first published the annual Giant Shanda Animal in 1996 and took over publication of Mike Curtis' Shanda The Panda in 1999. As of June 2008, Shanda Fantasy Arts offered all their comics exclusively through web site orders, or through selected comic shops, due in part to increased profitability requirements from Diamond.