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hosted newsletter from Haven Distributors
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JUNE 2008 |
Visit us at www.havendistro.com and www.rogue-wolf.net!
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Welcome to the Rogue Wolf Entertainment / Haven Distro newsletter! |
Read on for all the latest updates on Haven Distributors’ products, news, and sales.
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HAVEN DISTRO UPDATE |
Okay so maybe thinking that the newsletter would get out early during convention season wasn't such a great idea. Ironically, things like this newsletter get bumped down the priority list because business really started to ramp up this month. We've been running seven days a week to keep orders flowing.
I want to introduce some folks that brought in to help manage purchasing, marketing, and sales. First we signed Tony Shenton to be our new sales rep. He's been reaching out to more retailers and has already shown promising results. So promising that we've had to step up our game to meet the sudden demand.
Lys Fulda of the Sphinx Group has been our marketing consultant for awhile now, and has now added on the role of purchasing coordinator for a number of our larger suppliers. Brant Fowler is also adding to his job role with supplier relations and marketing efforts. He will be your new point of contact for new publisher submissions, small press updates, and for solicitations and cover art for the shopping cart and catalog. Choosing Solicits and Submissions in the contact form should now go to him.
Wizard World was great for us, too. I got to put some faces to names of our legacy suppliers, bring back some familiar faces, and welcome some new ones. We are excited to soon be carrying Eagle One Media animated comic DVDs and Ape Entertainment books plus many more. Keep an eye on our new releases and spotlight publishers in the coming months.
Speaking of conventions... the shop's going to be closed up from July 22-27 for San Diego. So get in your orders before then.
If you're attending the con, look for us in the old Cold Cut booth, 1901 in the IP Pavilion. We'll also be hosting Mike Kingston with his Markosia title, Headlocked and Terry Cronin with Students of the Unusual.
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Graphic Novels/Trade Paperbacks |
| FINDH01 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder Sin-Eater HC (MR) |
$29.95 |
| FINDT01 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 1: Sin-Eater part 1 (MR) |
$15.95 |
| FINDT02 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 2: Sin-Eater part 2 (MR) |
$19.95 |
| FINDT03 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 3: King of the Cats (MR) |
$13.95 |
| FINDT04 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 4: Talisman (MR) |
$13.95 |
| FINDT05 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 5: Dream Sequence (MR) |
$20.95 |
| FINDT06 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 6: Mystery Date (MR) |
$17.95 |
| FINDT07 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 7: The Rescuers (MR) |
$16.95 |
| FINDT08 |
(Light Speed Press) |
Finder TPB vol 8: Five Crazy Women (MR) |
$15.95 |
| TARWT05 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose TPB vol 5 (Adult) |
$24.99 |
| TARWT06 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose TPB vol 6 (Adult) |
$24.99 |
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Comic Books |
| DRES003 |
(Dabel Brothers Publishing) |
The Dresden Files #3 (of 4) - Welcome to the Jungle |
$3.99 |
| GRFT028 |
(Zenescope Entertainment) |
Grimm Fairy Tales #28 |
$2.99 |
| TFWL001 |
(Zenescope Entertainment) |
Tales From Wonderland: The Queen of Hearts |
$2.99 |
| TFWL002 |
(Zenescope Entertainment) |
Tales From Wonderland: The Mad Hatter |
$3.99 |
| TFWL003 |
(Zenescope Entertainment) |
Tales From Wonderland: Alice |
$3.99 |
| TARW040 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #40 (MR) |
$2.95 |
| TARW042 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #42 (MR) |
$2.95 |
| TARW043 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #43 (MR) |
$2.95 |
| TARW044 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #44 (MR) |
$2.95 |
| TARW045 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #45 (MR) |
$2.95 |
| TARW046 |
(Broadsword Comics) |
Tarot: Witch of the Black Rose #46 (MR) |
$2.95 |
| PIPR003 |
(Zenescope Entertainment) |
The Piper #3 |
$2.99 |
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PUBLISHER SPOTLIGHT |
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Continuing our spotlight on publishers, this month we bring you Dabel Brothers Publishing, the company famous for adapting popular novels to the graphic format.
Dabel Brothers Publishing, LLC, is a publishing company best known for its dedication to bringing many of the best and most popular novels in the world of fantasy to the comic book medium. With a passion for authenticity and a firm respect for the original text, Dabel Brothers Publishing works hard to ensure that their adaptations build upon and enhance the worlds of popular works in a manner that longtime fans and new readers alike can enjoy.
The company was founded in 2000 by Ernst, Les, David and Pascal Dabel, four brothers with a passion for creating high-quality fantasy, science fiction, horror and adventure comics with a literary feel. The Dabel Brothers first became known for their stunning adaptation of George R. R. Martin's The Hedge Knight in 2003. Since then, they have produced over a dozen different titles that have adapted novels by major, bestselling authors, including Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist, Robert Jordan, Tad Williams, Richard A. Knaak and Robert Silverberg. The Dabel Brothers also produced the first six issues of Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter, which they published through Marvel Comics. The hardcover graphic novel collecting these issues went on to become the bestselling graphic novel of 2007 with only a single month's worth of sales.
  
From 2008-2009, the Dabel Brothers will produce and publish several more comic book adaptations of novels by major bestselling authors, including Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, Jim Butcher's The Dresden Files, Patricia Brigg's Mercedes Thompson and Sherrilyn Kenyon's Dark-Hunter. They will also publish a brand new stories set in the George R, R, Martin's Wild Cards universe, The Dresden Files universe written by Jim Butcher himself. As well as an as a prequel to the Patricia Briggs Mercedes Thompson series entitled Mercedes Thompson : Homecoming.
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INDEPENDENT COMIC NEWS |
Robert Jordan's Bestselling Wheel of Time Series joins the Dabel Brothers Line-up!
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Dabel Brothers Publishing announced today that they will adapt Robert Jordan's bestselling Wheel of Time series, which has sold more than 14 million copies in North America alone, into comic book format. The first issue is scheduled to release in December 2008.
The Wheel of Time began in 1990 with the publication of The Eye of the World; ten more volumes have followed. The most recent four books of the series have reached #1 on the New York Times hardcover bestseller list. It is the story of a world – both our past, and our future – in which the battle between the Light and the Shadow must be fought every day; and of the people, both ordinary and extraordinary, who must fight that battle. Jordan wrote eleven volumes of the series and one prequel; he was unable to complete the twelfth and final volume before his death in 2007. That volume, A Memory of Light, will be completed by Brandon Sanderson, a writer chosen by Jordan's widow and editor, Harriet McDougal, and published by Tor Books in 2009.
The Dabel Brothers published a comic adaptation of Jordan's A New Spring in March 2005. In conjunction with that project, Robert Jordan provided them with extensive notes for use in further possible publications, including character descriptions and other visuals.
"I'm delighted to be working with the Dabel Brothers! Their work is splendid. Robert Jordan liked it enormously," says Harriet McDougal.
Graphic-novel collected editions of the individual comics will be distributed by Del Rey, an imprint of Ballantine Books at the Random House Publishing Group. The deal was negotiated by Jordan's agent, Nat Sobel.
Robert Jordan was born in 1948 in Charleston, South Carolina. He taught himself to read when he was four with the incidental aid of a twelve-years-older brother, and was tackling Mark Twain and Jules Verne by five. He was a graduate of The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, with a degree in physics. He served two tours in Vietnam with the U.S. Army; among his decorations are the Distinguished Flying Cross with bronze oak leaf cluster, the Bronze Star with "V" and bronze oak leaf cluster, and two Vietnamese Gallantry Crosses with Palm. A history buff, he also wrote dance and theater criticism. He enjoyed the outdoor sports of hunting, fishing and sailing, and the indoor sports of poker, chess, pool, and pipe collecting. He began writing in 1977 and continued until his death on September 16, 2007.
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Wizard World Chicago Zenescope Style
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Wizard World Chicago was last weekend and Zenescope unveiled two brand new Exclusive issues! The fun happened at booth #1242, where creators Joe Brusha, Ralph Tedesco, Daniel Leister and Nei Ruffino appeared all weekend long!
GRIMM FAIRY TALES #28
The Ugly Duckling
Limited to 500 copies
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TALES FROM WONDERLAND:
Alice
Limited to 750 copies
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Friday June 27th @ 3 pm
The Wizard School Room: #8
ZENESCOPE PRESENTS: CREATING YOUR COMIC
The Wizard School Room: 8
Zenescope’s Ralph Tedesco and Joe Brusha and Zenescope artist Daniel Leister were there to offer advice to anyone who ever wanted to create or publish their own comic book series. From idea to story development, Ralph and Joe offered tips and answered the questions you wanted answered.
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SLG To Publish Its BIGGEST Graphic Novel Ever!
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Setsuko is your ordinary Japanese freshman in high school. During the day you can find her studying half-heartedly for exams, going to class, socializing with her peers, battling off giant killer robots, preventing global conspiracies from running rampant, eating lunch, destroying alien invaders, doing homework, annihilating restless spirits of the dead, and other mundane things. Oh yeah, she also manages to babysit sometimes at a very reasonable rate of $10 per hour.
Using only his pop culture knowledge of Japan (having never visited the place before) creator Andy Ristaino (Life of a Fetus) brings us his own unique perspective of the land of the rising sun through Setsuko's daily adventures in SLG Publishing's special oversized printing of The Babysitter. But why attempt to recreate an entire country that he hasn't visited? "It seemed like a good idea to make the comic about living in Japan based solely on my pop culture knowledge that I've gathered from a lifetime of studying far too much manga and anime," Ristaino says.
The book's unique art style, inspired Will Eisner and Ristaino's own studies of claustrophobic art, is intended to parody and deconstruct established manga conventions. Where manga tends to be small in size, easily read, with clean art lines, The Babysitter represents the complete opposite in its mammoth presentation, dizzying art panels, and bold style. "I wanted to create a book that you couldn't just skip ahead and read the last panel to find out what happens… something you had to translate, concentrate on…like one of those magic eye puzzles," says Ristaino.
The Babysitter Collection (ISBN 9781593621346) arrives in stores this August at 112 pages and measures at a colossal 9.5 x 15 inches. The volume collects issues #1-3 of The Babysitter and is packed with special features including concept art and a brand new full length color story. It will be available in bookstores, comic stores and at SLG Publishing's website, www.slgcomic.com
SLG Publishing is a San Jose, CA based publisher of comic books, graphic novels and related merchandise. Established in 1986 some of SLG's more notable comics and creators have included Johnny the Homicidal Maniac Jhonen Vasquez, Lenore Roman Dirge, Milk & Cheese Evan Dorkin and Zombies Calling Faith Erin Hicks.
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Change in direction for dabelbrothers.com
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 Things change. In everything from comics to life that is a fact.
Fact with this website, is it had to change. The Internet is getting more and more advanced, and the and fact is that so are the hackers and bots of the world. This website over the months had bee attacked by spam, phishing attacks, and adult content spammed across the forums. Last week it hit critical mass as the site was corrupted by 100s of files hitting the site at once.
A decision was made to deep six the old site, and start fresh. The Dabel Brothers are very much concerned with the user experience, and are deeply saddened if the fans are hurt or offended. This step was taken to be sure that a 100% safe environment was built and could be maintained.
It's also a good opportunity to refine and hone the site, to make it easier to navigate and easier to get the information that fans want and need. Look for more additions and fine tuning over the weeks and months ahead.
And thanks for being the best fans in comics.
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RETAILER TIPS: ADVERTISING - GIVE IT TIME TO WORK |
All too often, we hear "I advertised in that book once.. it didn't work." Advertising is about repetition to get your message through to it's audience.
There is no guaranteed number of times advertising will get your message across either so you need to create a message that works as well as a way to gauge response.
Make sure your advertising message has a special code word or coupon in it so you can see how many people respond to your ad!
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