BOOM! STUDIOS

ENTERS INTO DISTRIBUTION AGREEMENT

WITH HAVEN DISTRIBUTORS

Los Angeles, CA - October 5th, 2009- BOOM! Studios is pleased to announce a distribution agreement with Haven Distributors to distribute all second printings of their monthly comics to direct market retailers, this includes not only the core BOOM! Studios line, but also BOOM!’s line of Disney licensed comics published under the BOOM Kids! imprint.


“Retailers have been begging us to get our second prints into their stores at a faster pace for the past year,” said BOOM! Studios CEO Ross Richie. “We’re happy to be able to offer retailers another choice in getting an important part of our product line to their stores and into the hands of their customers.”


The addition of Haven Distributors adds to the growing list of distributors offering BOOM! Studios and BOOM Kids! publications. This past summer, BOOM! Studios announced mass market distribution deals with Simon and Schuster and HarperCollinsCanada, with Simon & Schuster distributing BOOM! Studios and BOOM Kids! line of graphic novels in the United States and HarperCollinsCanada distributing in Canada.

Previous to the addition of Simon & Schuster and HarperCollinsCanada, this past March BOOM! announced a newsstand distribution deal for their BOOM Kids! line through Kable Distribution Services, Inc., best known amongst comic book fans for distributing Archie Comics throughout North America in the United States and Canada.


The entire BOOM! Studios and BOOM Kids! line of publications are offered in the direct market by Diamond Comics Distributors.


Retailers needing more information on how to order from Haven Distributors can call 1-877-HAVEN-50 or sign up on their website here: http://www.havendistro.com/retailers.html

About BOOM! Studios
BOOM! Studios (www.boom-studios.com) is a unique publishing house specializing in high-profile projects across a wide variety of different genres from some of the industry’s biggest talents, including Philip K. Dick’s DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?, The Henson Company’s FARSCAPE, and the original Mark Waid series IRREDEEMABLE. BOOM! recently launched its youth imprint, BOOM Kids!, with Pixar’s THE INCREDIBLES, CARS, and TOY STORY, as well as Disney’s THE MUPPETS. This year, BOOM! Studios celebrates its fourth anniversary.


About Haven Distributors
Haven Distributors (www.havendistro.com) was launched in 2008 with the mission of enabling independent comics to succeed in an ever-changing market place. They provide a wide array of comics and related merchandise at competitive discounts with low minimum orders to direct market retailers. They strive to treat both their customers and suppliers as business partners, providing a range of order fulfillment services from wholesale distribution to web store management.

Disney Buys Marvel for $4 Billion

I'm hardly breaking the story here. The newscaster this morning rattled it off like a footnote but it still jumped out at me and made me scream "What?" out loud at the radio.

The reactions on Twitter have been funny. Punisher's emblem will change to a flower. "This Man, This Muppet". Mickey Mouse telling Bendis that Ultimate Avengers need to be a lot nicer.

I'm more curious about what this will do to the BOOM! license with Disney. And I'm morbidly curious what will the new mascots be at Universal Studios, right down the road there from Disney World.

I'm proud to announce our first Haven Exclusive Variant. Check out Sullengrey Sacrifice #1 by Ape Entertainment.

Moving along

Hi everyone. We haven't had a lot of really groundbreaking news since our opening simply because we've been getting our feet under us, so to speak. I've said many times that I wanted to have a solid foundation under us before we tried to expand too far. The last thing I wanted to was to come out with lots of noise and promises that we couldn't deliver.

This month we have quite a broader range of titles for you to choose from. And we've beefed up our Heavy Metal selection quite a bit due to crazy demand. The biggest news has all been internal stuff, though... the big move to a new warehouse, the new computer.

Once we're settled into the new Skokie warehouse and the database upgrade is complete, we'll have far more interesting announcements for our customers. Sit tight and thanks for staying with us.

RIP Gary Gygax

An icon passed away this morning. Just about anyone who's picked up a 20-sider was influenced by him, even if they didn't know him by name. He was the creator and founder of Dungeons and Dragons, making him essentially the father of role playing games.

It was thanks to the vision of Ernest Gary Gygax that a whole generation of us off-the-mainstream kids found an outlet for our creativity growing up. He was 69 years old.

Cold Cut Under New Management

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 12, 2008
Chicago, IL
Contact: comics @ coldcut.com
1-866-4-COLD-CUT

As you read this, thousands of comics are being packed up and shipped from their old home in Salinas, CA to their new home in Chicago, IL.

Cold Cut Distribution, the leading distributor of independent and small to mid-size press comics in the United States, has sold their company assets to Rogue Wolf Entertainment.

Retailers can still access the online ordering system at www.Coldcut.com, but be advised that Cold Cut will not be able to fulfill new orders while the inventory is still being moved and set up in the new warehouse.

“We expect to be back up to full speed by the end of February,” said Lance Stahlberg, Vice President of Rogue Wolf. “We’ve already begun to reach out to customers and publishers, making sure inventory gaps are kept to a minimum as we rebuild.”

“I’d been looking for someone who could take the company the next level, and Lance and his team are exactly the right people for the job,” said Cold Cut's owner, Mark Thompson. “Having Cold Cut located in Chicago will cut shipping times and costs for most of our customers and suppliers, and makes more sense for the entire industry.”

The new owners will continue to offer the same flat discount rate to retailers, and will seek to extend the same terms to all new accounts with previous Cold Cut customers.

“As a team, we bring twenty-four years experience in the distribution business combined with a first-hand understanding of the needs of independent publishers to the table,” Lance added. “We have the resources to take this company to new heights.”

Keep an eye out for more information in the coming weeks!

ABOUT COLD CUT DISTRIBUTION –
www.ColdCut.com

Cold Cut is the industry's leading reorder distributor for quality independent comics, serving retailers across the country and internationally since 1994. They have consistently lead the way in supporting and promoting independent comics in an ever-changing market place.

ABOUT ROGUE WOLF ENTERTAINMENT –
www.Rogue-Wolf.net

Rogue Wolf Entertainment, Inc was founded in 2006 with the idea of creating comics for comic fans. They currently produce three web-comic titles. With this new addition to their corporate portfolio, their focus will be on helping their fellow creators and valued supporters succeed and hopefully improve the comics industry as a whole in the process.