Welcome to the Rogue Wolf Entertainment / Haven Distro newsletter!

Read on for all the latest updates on Haven Distributors’ products, news, and sales.

Hey guys.  Hope everyone had a great FCBD.

Sorry we missed April's newsletter, but we were so focused on getting our first issue of COMICS! ready that it completely slipped by us.  I think everyone who sees it will agree that it was worth the extra time put in.  In case you missed the new look and details about this new book, check out our website.

http://havendistro.com/catalog.html

It's at the printers now and will arrive in stores over the course of May.  If you have placed an order or even set up a new account with Haven since last year, you are on the mailing list to get one free.  If you want more for your customers, they are available for wholesale through our store.  If you want to make sure that you get one, let us know.

We are also going to be offering the catalog for FREE online.  We'll have the pages saved on our website in PDF, CBZ, and in a web-comic reader for easy reading online if you don't want to download 20 meg.  So for any publishers considering advertising, you'll get even more exposure for your products in the catalog, between print circulation and web traffic.  Keep an eye on the site for it.

Sonic and Futurama are both in, with reorders for both already placed. Thanks to everyone for their enthusiastic response on those.

Beyond the staple books that keep us all in business, part of my mission with this company is to raise awareness of a whole slew of high quality publishers that you may have never heard of before, or maybe you heard of but you never really took a serious look at.

I'm looking over this newsletter and I find myself amazed by the quality that independent companies are turning out these days.  When you hear your customers lamenting the sad state of their once favorite comic book universes as they are sucked further down into crossover event hell... tell them about the mind blowing books being turned out by companies like Com.X, Transfuzion, Bloodfire, Red 5, Markosia, Ape Entertainment...

Turns out I picked a fantastic time to get into this business.

Lance

www.transfuzion.biz

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Transfuzion News

Sullengray: Sacrifice EXCLUSIVE LIMITED EDITION COVER!

SAN DIEGO- Ape Entertainment (APE) in cooperation with Haven distribution has announced an exclusive, limited edition cover for Ape Entertainment’s next mini-series, Sullengrey: Sacrifice, starting in September 2009.

“We are happy to be offering this exclusive cover on Sullengrey’s new first issue through Haven Distribution. It’s a simple way for us to treat fans to something special and give our retail partners additional ways to sell our product.” explains Ape Entertainment Co-Publisher, David Hedgecock.

Sullengrey is the story of the town of Autumn’s Grove and the cast of characters that live (and often die) there. In Sullengrey: Sacrifice, our favorite cast of characters return with new friends and new foes and new levels of horrific excitement. Salam Jones comes home to find her boyfriend eviscerated and a little girl and her missing dog are the only keys to the nightmare lurking under her roof! Also, the promoter of the spookiest club in Autumn’s Grove learns that living in a town that ignores its fears is always a dangerous proposition!
Drew Rausch (Cthulhu Tales, The Dark Goodbye, Haunted Mansion) and Jocelyn Gajeway present a chilling coming-of-age story perfect for true horror fans.
 

Sullengrey: Sacrifice #1 will be in stores beginning in September of 2009. All four issues of the mini-series are complete and print ready. Sullengrey: Sacrifice will be distributed through all standard distribution channels but retailers are encouraged to contact Haven Distribution for details on the limited edition cover.

ABOUT APE ENTERTAINMENT:
Founded in 2003, Ape Entertainment is the brainchild of comic’s devotees David Hedgecock, Mike Hall and Brent Erwin and home to such popular titles as GO-GO GORILLA AND THE JUNGLE CREW, SULLENGREY, SUPER HUMAN RESOURCES, BLACK COAT, TEDDY SCARES and the Eisner nominated ATHENA VOLTAIRE.  Ape Entertainment is devoted to the production of high-quality original graphic novels, comic books, and illustrated fiction.

Visit Ape Entertainment online at http://www.ApeComics.com .

Small Press Idol 2009 IS Going On Now!

Round 2 has ended! It was a huge, wild ride, and it's only going to be bigger in Round 3 - which is the SEQUENTIAL PRIMER round.

Contestants will all turn in 3 pages of their 12 page story, and you will be able to download it, read it, see if you want to read more of it, and vote to support it.

It is traditionally the round that really makes or breaks projects, that gets the most attention from the public, and otherwise, will clearly bring the cream to the top.

We will see who gets a #0 issue and compete in Round 4, we will see who gets a cover slot in Mysterious Visions, and, who will be a back up feature.

Posting begins May 18th!!!

As for the prizes, so far here's what's at stake:

Small Press Idol 2009

Grand Prize (Currently $700!)

• 4 issue publishing commitment

• $200 Cash Bonus (more if more sponsors join)

• Plus 1/2 of the sign up fees!!

*Andrew Dawe-collins has pledged that no matter what the pool reaches,

he will add whatever it takes to make it be the next rounded up hundred.

The pool made it to $620, so he is contributing $80 - please everyone

thank him for his fun and interest