Besides needing to be aware of major sources for collection development purposes, it's important to understand the "structure" behind comic book series, because many readers will. Publishers, especially for comic book titles, should be an easy field you can use in the catalog to search and retrieve lists of similar items.
Many of these materials are published by a short list of major distributors. If you're not familiar with comic books, you will find very useful information organized about them under the Wikipedia Category for US Comic book publishing companies, especially the DC or Marvel sections. See our Websites post for more examples of Wikipedia pages by genre.
Since many fans will follow characters across many titles within these publishers - and perhaps refer to them as fictional "worlds," like "Superman is in the DC Universe," it's a good idea to have a general understanding, especially for superhero comic books, which characters are published by which groups.
These lists are by no means comprehensive, but they'll give you a good start.
- Major Comic Book Publishers
- DC - http://www.dccomics.com/
- Vertigo - http://www.dccomics.com/vertigo/
- Wildstorm - http://www.dccomics.com/wildstorm/
- Marvel - http://www.marvelcomics.com/
- Image Comics - http://www.imagecomics.com/
- Dark Horse - http://www.darkhorse.com/
- Major Graphic Novel Publishers
- Fantagraphics - http://www.fantagraphics.com/
- Drawn & Quarterly - http://www.drawnandquarterly.com/index.php
- Top Shelf Productions - http://www.topshelfcomix.com/
- Major Manga Publishers -
- TokyoPop - http://www.tokyopop.com/
- Viz Media - http://www.viz.com/
- for more, see the list of Manga Distributors in English on Wikipedia here
- Major Comics/Cartoons Publishers - (many mainstream publishers as well)
- Fantagraphics - http://www.fantagraphics.com/ (they do graphic novels & comics)
- Andrew McMeels - http://www.andrewsmcmeel.com/cartoon_books.html
- Archie Comics - http://www.archiecomics.com/
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