https://www.newsarama.com/47056-idw-...ack-crown.html

Sad. I never read any of the titles, but know ppl who thought they were good.

Kinda makes me curious on the business aspect of imprints for non-Big 2 publishers. Black Crown was technically owned by IDW, not Shelly Bond, right? Do they front the money for these titles and low sales led to the closure? The titles weren't basically already completed/paid for by the creators and IDW just prints them for a fee?

This made me realize I'm only really familiar w/ Image's publishing process for creator-submitted work. Not Dark Horse's or IDW's or Vault's etc. Do they all do things differently? Does it matter if a writer submits their work to Dark Horse to go under the main vanilla imprint or under Bergers Books (just as an example)?