Comic Retailers: discover titles, easily create a Pull List and send it to your PRH Self-Service cart

Browsing PRHComics and found a great backlist title to order?  Discovered a title collection and want to stock up on a new series?  Looking to expand your book, manga, merchandise, or kids’ section?  This update makes the entire browsing, discovering, and ordering experience better!  PRHComics.com—your hub to browse backlist titles, discover new series and formats,

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PRH to Distribute for TOKYOPOP – Beginning January 1, 2025

Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS) announced a multi-year sales and distribution agreement with TOKYOPOP, the pioneering publishing company that established the market for manga in North America, introducing the term to the English language in the process. Beginning January 1, 2025, PRHPS will sell and distribute the entire TOKYOPOP frontlist and backlist across all

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May 2024 Catalogs Available for Download!

Happy May! We’re happy to let you know that the May 2024 catalogs (for products shipping in July and beyond) are now available for download on PRHComics: May 2024 PRH Panels catalog May 2024 Marvel Previews catalog May 2024 IDW catalog We’ve highlighted a small sample of our favorite upcoming titles below, but feel free

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PRH to Distribute for Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group – Beginning September 1, 2024

Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS) yesterday announced a multi-year sales and distribution agreement with Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group (WWBG), the publishing company encompassing the diverse fiction imprints of Wattpad Books, W by Wattpad Books, and Frayed Pages x Wattpad Books, plus the electrifying graphic novels of WEBTOON Unscrolled. Beginning September 1, 2024, PRHPS will

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The Definitive Western and East Asian Comics Glossary

There are many terms used in both western and east asian comics that may be unfamiliar to new and longtime readers. Here are those terms defined! WESTERN COMICS GLOSSARY Single Issue – The serial magazine-style format of a comic. Generally, 20-32 pages of a story but sometimes can be more. They are generally numbered in

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PRH to Distribute for Disney Publishing

Disney Publishing Worldwide, Marvel Publishing, and Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS), a division of trade publisher Penguin Random House, announced a multi-year exclusive worldwide sales and distribution agreement for Disney’s newly published and backlist adult and children’s physical books across all mass, trade and independent bookselling sales channels. Distribution commenced April 1, 2023. This

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Dark Horse and PRH Sign Exclusive Deal to Distribute Comic Books

Dark Horse Comics, an industry-leading publisher of comic books, graphic novels, and manga, and Penguin Random House Publisher Services (PRHPS), a division of Penguin Random House, today announced an exclusive worldwide multi-year agreement for the sales and distribution of Dark Horse’s newly published and backlist comic book periodicals, graphic novels, and manga to the Direct

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East Coast Comic Stores Celebrate Free Comic Book Day!

  For those “not in the know,” the biggest comic book celebration of the year occurs annually on Free Comic Book Day.  An alliance of participating comic retailers, publishers and distributors share the cost of handing out (literal) tons of comics, for free, to customers!  This event typically runs on the first Saturday in May,

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IDW Comics Available To Order With The April 2022 PRH Panels Catalog

Penguin Random House is proud to be the exclusive worldwide distributor for IDW Publishing’s newly published and backlist comic book periodicals, trade collections, and graphic novels to the Direct Market comic shops beginning June 1, 2022. The new exclusive distribution agreement complements and expands the current partnership, in which PRHPS sells and distributes IDW’s trade- book

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