BOOM! Studios and Simon & Schuster have signed a sales and distribution agreement, under which S&S will handle sales, distribution, and fulfillment for all new and backlist BOOM! titles to trade and specialty accounts in the US. The agreement takes effect immediately.
Michael Selleck, S&S’s Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing, said “BOOM! Studios has a unique line of graphic novels of wide-ranging appeal. They are an excellent fit with our existing list, and we look forward to helping them expand their presence in traditional bookselling and specialty outlets.”
BOOM!’s CEO Ross Richie said “Simon and Schuster is simply the best. This is a critical step in our plan to build a mass market presence via newsstand and the book channel to represent some of the biggest and best brands in the world, such as our Pixar and Muppets comic books, as well as Farscape, Philip K. Dick’s science fiction classic Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, and upcoming blockbusters like Die Hard.”