Diamond Book Distributors has inked an exclusive agreement with Ardden Entertainment to distribute Ardden’s graphic novels and products to bookstores, mass-market retailers, libraries and other outlets worldwide.

 

Founded in 2007 by Brendan Deneen and Richard Ems, Ardden Entertainment has successfully revived the Flash Gordon and Casper properties in new series of comics and graphic novels. In 2010 Ardden announced it had signed an agreement to bring back the short-lived Atlas/Seaboard comics of the 1970s (see “Atlas Returns”). The  first wave of the resusitated Atlas titles is slated to be released in the direct market in March. 2011.