Lunar Distribution (direct market starting September 2023[1])
Diamond Comic Distributors / Diamond Book Distributors (books until January 2024[2] and direct market sub-distributor through Lunar Distribution starting September 2023; direct market until September 2023[1])
Simon & Schuster (books starting January 2024[3])
Key people
Todd McFarlane (President)
Jim Valentino (Vice President)
Marc Silvestri (CEO)
Robert Kirkman (COO)
Erik Larsen (CFO)
Eric Stephenson (Publisher, CCO)
Publication types
Comic books, graphic novels
Fiction genres
Superhero
Horror
Fantasy
Science fiction
Action
Adventure
Crime
Comedy
Imprints
Highbrow Entertainment
ShadowLine
Skybound Entertainment
Todd McFarlane Productions
Top Cow Productions
Official website
Official website
Image Comics is an American comic book publisher and is the third largest direct market comic book and graphic novel publisher in the industry by market share.[4]
It was founded in 1992 by several high-profile illustrators as a venue for creator-owned properties, in which comics creators could publish material of their own creation without giving up the copyrights to those properties. Normally this is not the case in the work-for-hire-dominated American comics industry, where the legal author is a publisher, such as Marvel Comics or DC Comics, and the creator is an employee of that publisher. Its output was originally dominated by superhero and fantasy titles from the studios of the founding Image partners, but now includes comics in many genres by numerous independent creators.
Its best-known publications include Spawn, The Maxx, Savage Dragon, Witchblade, Bone, The Walking Dead, Invincible, Saga, Jupiter's Legacy, Kick-Ass, Radiant Black and Stray Dogs.
^ abAlverson, Brigid (May 24, 2023). "Image Goes Exclusive with Lunar for Direct Market Distribution". ICv2. Retrieved May 24, 2023.
^"Our Publishers". Archived from the original on September 11, 2017. Retrieved September 10, 2017. "IMAGE SIGNS EXCLUSIVE BOOK DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH S&S". Retrieved August 6, 2023.
^"IMAGE SIGNS EXCLUSIVE BOOK DISTRIBUTION DEAL WITH S&S". Retrieved August 6, 2023.
^Alverson, Brigid (October 16, 2023). "Comic Store Market Shares – Q3 2023". icv2.com. Retrieved October 31, 2023.
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