Another line for your Distribution Scorecard: start-up Ignition Press will go with Penguin Random House for distribution starting in September. Ignition is a new publisher so getting in with PRH’s stellar line-up is quite a get. Hopeful statements were released:
“Penguin Random House is the gold standard of sales and distribution as is reflected not only by their dominant position in the book trade, but their incredible, curated stable of publisher clients,” says Filip Sablik, Ignition Press co-founder and Publisher. “To have the team at PRHPS enthusiastically embrace Ignition Press is an incredible validation of what we’re building, and we cannot wait to build the franchises of tomorrow that reach a robust worldwide readership together.”
Rachel Goldstein, EVP of Penguin Random House Publisher Services, said, “ The team behind Ignition Press is made up of some of the most talented and respected figures in comics publishing. With their impressive slate of creator-driven projects and a clear vision for the future, Ignition is poised to become an important and influential voice in the next chapter of independent comics. We’re proud to partner with them from day one.”
Ignition also announced its second title, following Murder Podcast, Voyeur by Leah Williams and David Baldeón, also coming in September. The title was announced in the Ignition Press newsletter, which, we’re told, you should subscribe to for future announcements, previews and more. More info from Williams:
Tell us a little bit about the project you’re working on with us: I’m really excited for people to read VOYEUR. It’s what I think of as a kind of opening salvo for comic book readers to experience my actual writing voice for the first time. It will be recognizable to long-time readers of mine; people who’ve learned to see the “me” between the lines of superhero stuff, but VOYEUR will still surprise readers new and old nonetheless. I’m deeply proud of the work we’re doing with this book. My collaborators and co-conspirators are brilliant, and I’m profoundly fortunate to have this experience working with Ignition Press.
FINALLY, Ignition has also announced an actual podcast to tie in with Cullen Bunn’s upcoming but as yet unannounced horror series for Ignition. And it’s called The Cullenoscopy.
There is a trailer.
And the first episode dropped with co-host Rebekah McKendry.
Ignition Press sends out PR in an extremely difficult text-as-pictures format (is this all the rage in PR circles? Because if it is, I’m quitting) so I can’t cut-n-paste any more forward looking statements, but I think the pictures above tell the story.
CORRECTION: Although he is doing a podcast that might be about murder, Cullen Bunn is not the author of Murder Podcast, as an earlier version of this story stated. That book is by Jeremy Haun, Mike Tisserand (The Dragon Prince, Diary of a Wimpy Kid), Nick Filardi and AndWorld Design.
