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Comic Book Distribution
Basic distribution information for comic book publishers, and those who are considering self-publishing their comics.

Comic Book Publishers
About.com's Guide to comic book collecting has an extensive list of comic book publishers with web sites.

Comics-Pro FAQ
A collection of questions seen regularly on the comics-pro mailing list.

Comic Sites Alliance
Web directory of comic and animation sites.

Diamond Comic Distributors
The largest distributor of English language comic books.

The How-To Guide to Comics
Links about how to cartoon, self-publish or both.

Indy Magazine
An online guide to independent comics

Media Resource Guide
Essential media contacts for comic book publishers.

Mini-Comics.com
A site dedicated to the independent comic book pubishing community. Included is a database of small publishers, a chat room, message boards, and news.

Publishing Your Own Comic
Adam Swan offers a basic primer for publishing your own comic books.

Self-Publishing Your Own Comic
A series of four essays designed to assist artists, writers and editors who want to self publish their comics.

Small Publishers Co-Op
A group of small publishers pooling print runs to save money.

So, You Want to Publish a Comic Book
Information about comic book distribution from the Comic Book Clearinghouse.

Xeric Foundation
The Xeric Foundation assists comic book creators with some of the costs in self-publishing their work.

No laughing matter
Once camp, kitsch and cartoonish, comic books have come of age. Indeed, argues David Thompson, they put the adolescent preoccupations of contemporary art to shame

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