S&S to Distribute Image Comics
Image Comics has inked an exclusive North American distribution deal with Simon & Schuster, effective with January 2024 on-sale titles, for book market distribution. Previously exclusive to Diamond Book Distributors, Image Comics will join graphic novel publishers Viz Media and Boom Studios on the Simon & Schuster distribution client list.
Image Comics will continue its relationship with Diamond Book Distributors, which will continue to distribute Image titles in the U.K. and international markets. But the move comes in the wake of numerous big-name clients leaving Diamond for other distributors in some, if not all, markets.
"For the past 20 years we have been able to establish a foothold for our trade paperbacks and graphic novels in the book market thanks in no small part to the support and efforts of Diamond Book Distributors,” said Image Comics publisher Eric Stephenson. “Over time, our needs and backlist of titles have grown and our increasing footprint in the marketplace has us excited to take this next step with Simon & Schuster to build a more robust infrastructure for our titles there.”
