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I also didn't mention Oni Press or Radical or Kickstart or Icon or dozens of other publishers. I didn't mention Fantagraphics or Drawn & Quarterly because I don't really know the terms of their deals, plus they kind of occupy a different space than Image or Boom or IDW or Dark Horse or Vertigo or a bunch of other publishers. You can barely even call them competitors since they target such a different audience than most publishers. Fantagraphics' submission guidelines flat-out say they'll reject any "genre" submission. They're much more of an "arthouse" publisher.

~ Jay

Yeah, either way, it's a podcast about Image Comics by a guy who works for Image Comics. Expect the content to be largely related to Image Comics.

D&Q and Fantagraphics, despite being sources for some fantastic books, seems to cater more to book books than proper comic books.

If you're talking creator owned comic books (≈22 page floppies), there isn't another company out there that touches the catalogue of Image.

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The funny thing about Image is that the number of titles that are not genre fiction from this publisher are in the minority. In fact, there are few comics that are not action/adventure comics. I'm confused. Does Image have a quota for the action/adventure genre and keeps others to a minimum. Or is that mainly the genre they get?


Well, just because companies like Dark Horse aren't creator-owned, doesn't mean they put out low quality. They may take a chunk of the sales, but they do whatever they can to get your book noticed. That's why there are more movies based on DH comics. It's not a horrible system.

Where did I say Dark Horse is low quality? I said that nobody can touch Image Comics' catalogue of creator-owned comics. True statement.

I can count on one hand the number of non-Buffy, non-Star Wars comics from Dark Horse that sell in the top 300 in any given month. I would run out of fingers and toes if I tried that with Image comics (and yes, I have all of my fingers and toes).

What exactly is Dark Horse doing that Image is not in promoting its books?

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Why is that a "funny thing about Image?" The number of non-genre offerings from nearly EVERY comics publisher is in the minority -- except stuff like Drawn & Quarterly and Fantagraphics, which caters to that niche audience.


Image has no quotas of any kind. They just publish titles they think are well-done and will be successful. I don't know what kinds of submissions they receive, but yes -- I'd bet that the majority of them are in the action/adventure genre.

~ Jay