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Rae Media is joining Massive Indies through Lunar Distribution for their May 2026 solicits and solicitations, debuting with Tisena #1 by TJ Sterling and the Xong Bros, Krishna Banerjee and Balram Banerjee, with a cover by the legendary David Mack Tisena is an expansion within Rae Media's Okemus universe, focusing on Tisena, one of the[...]

Comic book seller and publisher  Shawn Hudachko posts to social media "MERC WILL BE BACK IN STORES! LEGENDS WILL BE BACK IN STORES! We just renewed our distribution agreement with Lunar for Merc Publishing and Legends Publishing Thank you to the team at Lunar for your patience and for renewing your belief in what we[...]

At the ComicsPRO comic book retailer event this past week (catch up with all our coverage here), Lunar Distribution co-owner Christine Merkler showed off all the publishers that had joined Lunar Distribution since last year, when the Diamond bankruptcy was all kicking off But also mentioning two that weren't on the display yet She began[...]

Owen Johnson, Director of Sales at Rebellion Publishing, took to the stand at the ComicsPRO event this weekend to discuss the return of the British sci-fi weekly comic book 2000AD to North America, available through Lunar Distribution And for the first time, weekly, because it is now partially printed in North America. And you can catch[...]

A limited run of the British sci-fi weekly comic book 2000AD will now be printed in North America and made available, weekly, for the first time in the US, through Lunar Distribution, and priced at eight dollars each The UK price is £7.50, or around $6, but this is intended for US retailers to be[...]

At the ComicsPRO comic industry retailer event being held in Glendale, California, yesterday, two prominent folks talked about the issue with comic books and street dates right now: Christine Merkler co-owner of Lunar Distribution and David Gabriel, SVP of Marvel Comics You can follow along with more announcements with this ComicsPRO handy tag right now. Previously, when Diamond[...]

Rebellion Publishing has announced at the ComicsPRO retailer event that the sci-fi weekly comics anthology 2000 AD, created by Pat Mills and John Wagner in 1977, will be returning to US comic book stores, and what's more, for the first time, they will be making it available to US comics stores on a weekly basis,[...]

Currently listed as part of Massive Indies in the Lunar Distribution catalogue, Panick titles will still be available through Lunar but are now subdistributed by Rocketship's Lunar listing, which also has access to bookstores via Simon & Schuster This is intended to expand the reach of Panick's "creator-driven" comics, which are revealed below This switch[...]

Avery Hill Publishing and Lunar Distribution logos Okay, so this is a thing The fall of Diamond Comic Distributors into bankruptcy, buyout and managed decline hit, amongst others, British comic book publishers who used Diamond UK to reach US comic book stores, with no other option Of late, we have seen Lunar Distribution begin to distribute[...]

Dark Horizons and Thellus begin in Heavy Metal Magazine's April 2026 solicits and solicitations

Another day, another shake-up for direct market distribution… Oni Press, publisher of Scott Pilgrim, Rick And Morty, EC Comics, Adventure Time, Murder Drones, Sixth Gun and Gender Queer is quitting both Lunar Distribution for the direct market and Simon & Schuster for bookstores, and putting all its exclusive distribution eggs in one basket, with Penguin[...]

Will the 2000AD weekly title be far behind? And to make the occasion, it's on the front of the Lunar Distribution Next Phase digital magazine for the month… And telling us "Galactic Greetings, Retailers! Judge Dredd Megazine Is Now Available At Lunar! This 100 Page Monthly Magazine Has All- New Comics Featuring Characters Like Dredd And[...]

Bleeding Cool reports that they have signed with Massive Indies to be distributed by Lunar Distribution and will also make their bookstore market debut this year as one of the growing list of publishers under IPG's new graphic novel initiative IPG's graphic novel list for bookstores and the direct market includes not only Battle Quest[...]

One of the expressed concerns about Lunar Distribution becoming the major comic book distributor in the USA is that they are the same company as the biggest comics retailers in the USA, DCBS and InstockTrades And so, not only can they access the data of all their competitors, but they can also secure the best[...]

When Lunar Distribution was set up by DC Comics and DCBS to replace Diamond Comic Distributors, which distributed DC Comics, then Image, then most everyone else, Lunar made a big impact on comic book retailers by having what was seen as over-the-top packing materials, with all comics wrapped in bubble wrap, a big difference from[...]

All that went away, and while Rebellion Publishing was soliciting their graphic novels, which are printed in North America through Lunar Distribution, Lunar didn't seem at the time able to cope with a weekly comic coming from the UK. Christine Merkler, co-owner of Lunar Distribution, spoke with David Harper of Sketchd on the Off Panel Podcast, and it came up[...]

Christine Merkler co-owns one of the largest comic book-focused distributors in the USA, Lunar Distribution, and the world's largest comic book store, DCBS She and her partner, Cameron Merkler, have had quite the year, which began when Diamond Comic Distributors announced their Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Which left Christine's jaw dropped, but not for the reason you might[...]

The Lab Press, fresh from getting one of the final Diamond Previews catalogue covers, have now brought all their graphic novels, with Bill Skeinkiewcz covers, to Lunar Distribution for their January 2026 solicits and solicitations, with Essentials, Creatures & Corridors, Super Science and The Hunger. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 50%; } #gallery-1 img { border:[...]

Lunar Distribution won't distribute the individual issues of the series or Judge Dredd Megazine And lots of stores have stopped ordering from Diamond Comic Distributors full stop, as it is no longer worth their while Which may be why they are getting a little more inventive with their collections, such as the work of Rob[...]

Antarctic Press November 2025 solicits and solicitations launch Kendra by Ben Dunn and Joe Wolfe, and originally known as Blue Sonja until lawyers got involved, through Lunar solicitations courtesy of Massive Indies for the first time and so have gotten a negative space cover for Kendra #1. #gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 100%; } #gallery-1[...]

The Lunar Distribution San Diego Comic-Con Mixer, as described in the Huge Bleeding Cool San Diego Comic-Con Party List (and unmentioned by anyone else) was described as a "Free event available to a maximum of 2 representatives per active comic book store in good standing at Lunar Food and drinks will be provided 8-minute walk[...]

Universal have a structure and system more similar to that of Diamond Comic Distruibutors, so retailers who miss that at Lunar Distribution, might find it at Universal. But I've also gotten word that Universal will match the generous DC Comics discount that Lunar Distribution already offers to comic book stores If, as a comic shop, you[...]

A few days ago, Bleeding Cool reported that Dynamite Entertainment would no longer be exclusive with Diamond Comic Distributors, but would be available from Lunar Distribution as well Now they have taken the extra step, and as a result of Diamond no longer paying for the comics and merchandise they are ordering from Dynamite and[...]

We encourage all retailers who previously ordered books through Diamond to shift their orders to one of our other distribution partners, including Lunar, W.W Norton and Ingram books in the U.S., and Turnaround in the UK Anyone with any questions about how to best obtain our books is encouraged to email Colin Blanchette at colin@fantagraphics.com." Fantagraphics[...]

Well, as it stands, there are currently five major bodies representing the most comic book publishers: Diamond, Penguin Random House, Lunar, Lunar Via Massive Indies, and Philbo Distribution Universal Distribution is on its way If I have missed any, let me know, and I'll do an edit. Distributor logos 10 Ton Press – Diamond 1984 Publishing – Diamond 3D[...]

First, the last big holdout at Diamond, Dynamite is to be distributed by Lunar Distribution Second, Diamond has cancelled the print version of their Previews catalogue Third, the people behind Comixology are creating a Comixology killer and have signed up Marvel and DC And now the news, being broken by Bleeding Cool at this hour,[...]

As of right now, that has changed. Nick Barrucci, owner of Dynamite Entertainment, the largest comics publisher owned by one individual, says "As things have changed in the comics market, we've come to an agreement with Lunar Distribution for our Dynamite titles beginning with this coming Monday's June 23rd FOC and July 9th and 16th in[...]

Without this, publishers like Uncivilized and Living the Line, who rely on timely cash flow to release ambitious, artist-driven work, cannot continue at their current pace." The original, incorrect article runs below: Uncivilized Books is a boutique comics publishing house based in Minneapolis, founded by cartoonist Tom Kaczynski in 200 and which was an early sign-up[...]

Earlier this year, in the wake of Diamond Comic Distribution entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and Lunarf Distribution unable to suddenly deal with the influx of new publishers looking for an alternative, Massive Publishing, which already had a deal with Lunar, came up with a plan Operating as a subdistributing publisher, to get other publishers into[...]

Image Comics has now issued a notice to comic book retailers that "Copies of THE MOON IS FOLLOWING US TP VOL 01 (Lunar code: 0225IM444) contain a misprint due to missing pages Please destroy all copies A reprint is in process." If you bought a copy, you might want to return it to the store[...]