Comments on: AIT/Planet Lar Struggles?

By: What’s Next for AIT/PlanetLar? Are They Still Publishing Books? » Comics Worth Reading

Sun, 15 May 2011 16:13:54 +0000

[...] also not new, since bloggers like me have been wondering how they’re surviving for the last five years. When I wrote about the company in 2008, the comment then from publisher [...]

By: Wood Pulls Another AIT Title, Puts Online, AIT Rumors Result » Comics Worth Reading

Thu, 31 Jan 2008 03:34:10 +0000

[...] formed their own publisher) True Story Swear to God 2 (creator Tom Beland moved to Image after public disputes with the publisher) * Black Diamond: On Ramp (written by publisher) Smoke & Guns Electric Girl [...]

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 20:54:21 +0000

Every time I hit the bookstore, I only see McFarlane Productions books like Spawn and Sam and Twitch, I'm more likely to see books from Fantagraphics, Drawn and Quarterly, and NBM (who published Lea's Rumble Girls) than I am to see other Image books, though Walking Dead and Paradigm show up sometimes.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:56:15 +0000

Paul: That\'s what Brian Wood thinks, too. Young emailed me wanting me to tell my readers that his company is still the publisher of the True Story book collections for the next two years. (He seemed to think my wording regarding moving the series wasn\'t clear enough that I was talking about \"floppies\", as he called them, so I\'m happy to clarify.) I guess that also means we\'ll see the big book collection Tom\'s talked about wanting to do at Image in three.

By: Ali T. Kokmen

Ali T. Kokmen — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 23:33:23 +0000

Myself, I certainly take Beland at his word in that interview that his desire to create monthly comics was a big motivation for the move; I could certainly understand how Image could have (or at least be perceived to have) more ability to get monthly comics out than AIT.

Actually, I’m a bit amused that bookstore distribution was discussed at all. Unless I’ve missed something, AIT is distributed to the book market by Diamond Book Distributors (DBD). Image, on the other hand, is distributed to the book market by…Diamond Book Distributors. And while Image may allow DBD to do things in the book trade that AIT does or cannot, I gotta believe that there are more similarities than differences between AIT being sold to bookstores by DBD and Image being sold to bookstores by DBD.

By: Paul O'Brien

Paul O'Brien — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 09:53:04 +0000

Larry Young really has drifted off the radar in the last few years. Unfortunately, I rather suspect he was inextricably tied to a moment that has long passed.

By: Lea

Lea — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:57:29 +0000

Funny, one of the reasons I left Image was because they DIDN’T have bookstore sales worked out. (One of many reasons.)