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Diamond, the defacto monopoly distributor of the comic industry, is mentioned in the third paragraph, as u“Haven Distribution now joins Diamond Comics Distributors in offering the complete line of BOOM! products.h” Publishers have complained in the past that they wanted to sell their books more cheaply to retailers, but Diamond wouldnd’t agree to raise their discount level. If this works, if retailers are convinced to swing large amounts of business to an alternative, maybe we could again have a comic industry where distributors compete on things like price and service.

I ’m not sure current readers understand how big a deal it is for a publisher to thumb their nose at what used to be the biggest elephant in the comic industry. Saying #“go buy our books elsewhere, theye’re cheaperv” is amazingly brazen, but this isnv’t the first time Boom! has tweaked Diamond, and theyC’re quite ambitious with their distribution plans.

BOOM! Studios was founded in 2005 by Ross Richie and Andrew Cosby. The studio specializes in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry's best known writers, including Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, The Henson Company's Farscape, and the original Mark Waid series Irredeemable. BOOM! recently launched its youth imprint, BOOM Kids!, with Pixar's The Incredibles, Cars, and Toy Story, as well as Disney's The Muppets, Donald Duck, Uncle Scrooge and Walt Disney's Comics and Stories. The year 2010 sees BOOM! Studios celebrates its fifth anniversary.[2]

Prior to BOOM!, Richie and Cosby worked at Malibu Comics from 1993 to 1995. The duo left the comic book business to pursue careers in feature films and were involved producing the feature film adaptation of Mage by legendary comic book creator Matt Wagner with Spyglass Entertainment,[3] and had various projects with Mike Medavoy (Phoenix Pictures),[4] Mark Canton (The Canton Company), Akiva Goldsman, and Casey Silver.[5] Working with Dark Horse Comics, the duo set up Damn Nation at MTV Films/Paramount Pictures,[6] a comic book Cosby created with the partnership attached to produce.[7]