![]() In a phone interview with Chun and Visnick, Chun said TKO first focused on the direct market, aka the comics shop market-a network of about 2,000 independent retailers. Moving into movie and TV production, TKO announced a partnership with the production house of Macro with plans to develop and produce a film adaptation of The Banks, a TKO graphic novel published in 2019 and written by Roxane Gay, the acclaimed nonfiction author and comics writer, with art by Ming Doyle. In addition, the house is adding works of illustrated prose short story collections to its publishing program. The house recently hired Marc Visnick as its director of sales, and last summer signed up with PGW for distribution to the book trade. (TKO editor-in-chief Sebastian Girner works out of New York City). ![]() TKO has about 15 staffers mostly based in Los Angeles. The company is now moving to expand into the book trade. Readers can buy the format they prefer or collect the series in every format available. ![]() It offered every format in a bingeable form-all series are available immediately in completed stories in print as either oversized trade paperbacks or traditional comic books in six-issue series, and as digital comics. TKO initially made its titles for sale primarily via its own website. ![]()
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