Diamond Comic Distributors is being broken down into nothing and has enraged everyone with plans to liquidate consigned inventory without paying the owners of said inventory (lawsuits have resulted). That has put a lot of indie publishers in a rough spot as they aren't always meaty enough to interest PRH or Lunar. Massive is a publisher at Lunar that has a sub-distribution option for indies, which is one option. A new distributor with an indie focus and some decent-sized (but still pretty independent-level) clients has emerged. As was previously announced, Phillip Russertt has taken Philbo Publishing and expanded to Philbo Distribution.
Philbo Distro--as I like to call it for short--has an online catalog for July that has an FOC (final order cutoff) of September 1st to receive product in October. Notable indies such as Zenescope, Fairsuqare, Antarctic Press, Devil's Due, and Advent are represented, along with smaller publishers I'm not as familiar with, but whose books look fun. Considering Diamond will most likely have completely folded by the end of this year, having three solid distributors of monthly comics (and Universal is entering the scene, but with more of a trade paperback focus) sounds pretty good to me. I wish Philbo Distro great success!
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