Conflicting Stories About FM’s Health

I was contacted by a respected comics publisher about two weeks ago who told me that the distributor FM International, who at that moment had recently lost IDW as a client, was not returning phone calls and not paying bills.

I spoke to or exchanged e-mails with approximately eight to ten clients of FM International, none of whom had experienced any interruption in service and none of whom had problems getting FM International staff on the phone. I was able to reach FM once of the couple of times that I tried. Without a second client able to confirm, I filed the FM material away under a longer feature I wanted to do about the problems with lack of confidence in a distributor.

At any rate, I wanted to note that the rumor, for whatever reason, is back in play. That's testimony from someone making initial inquiries on behalf of a shop they're helping plan in Norway, willing to go on the record about his conversation with an FM representative last week. This person was told they were planning on closing and was re-directed to Cold Cut and Diamond. They do not remember which person at FM spoke to them.

This should come to a head pretty quickly.
 
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