Rick Remender Signs Exclusively With Image Comics For Three Years

Effective immediately, Rick Remender has just signed a three-year exclusive deal with Image Comics. That means all and any new Giant generator titles Remender is writing will be published through Image. The publisher has been the home for Remender’s comic book imprint since 2013.

Here’s what Eric Stephenson, Publisher and Chief Creative Officer at Image Comics, had to say about working with Remender:

“Working with Rick is like speeding down the open road in a convertible with the top down. When he’s behind the wheel of his Giant Generator comics imprint, there is always some new high speed adventure or undiscovered place to visit. All creativity and energy. If that isn’t the Image Comics spirit, I don’t know what is. Looking forward to finding out where he’ll take us next.”

And here’s a quick resumé of his working with Image to date:

“Remender has adamantly championed creator-owned comics and built a portfolio of some of the most rigorously reordered, evergreen titles in Image’s backlist, consistently outpacing the momentum of each series before it. His fan-favorite series Deadly Class with Wes Craig has sold over 1 million copies worldwide, Black Science with Matteo Scalera, and LOW with Greg Tocchini have each sold over half a million copies, Seven to Eternity with Jerome Opeña and Tokyo Ghost with Sean Gordon Murphy are close behind and climbing. Thanks to that longevity and fanbase Remender currently has multiple Image projects in various stages of development in Hollywood with details on the horizon.

… Giant Generator’s popular deluxe hardcover format has garnered a cult following over the years with comics collectors. Tokyo Ghost, Black Science, Seven to Eternity, Deadly Class, and LOW deluxe hardcovers have all had multiple printings to keep up with the demand, with Fear Agent joining the line this winter.”

Remender added:

“We live by one motto ‘If you give it love, it will find friends.’ The beautifully ironic side effect of making a book with love, and the years of investment needed to make it great, is that it will have better odds of attracting top level talent from film and television while also honoring your reader base.

I’ve recently turned down very generous offers to write X-Men and Batman, and while flattered, that would ultimately be a step backwards artistically, and not where my heart is at. Image takes no OWNERSHIP, so my partners and I co-own 100% of our properties. It’s short-term vs long-term thinking. You want to build your own house? Make something that your children will inherit? Image is the only place. This contract is me saying that I bet on myself. I bet on my collaborators. I bet on our characters, stories, and owning what we make. Exclusively. With all we’ve got. Like our lives are on the line.

We approach each book as an opportunity to tell a story we desperately care about telling. By doing the hard work of ensuring a substantive reading experience worthy of fans’ time and investment.”

Of course, long before this he made his name working with Marvel and DC Comics, but that’s all in the past now with the announcement of this exclusive deal. But then he has been exclusively indie for quite some time now.