Frequently Asked Questions:

 

Hound Business

I'd like to invest in Hound Comics. What is your listing on the stock exchange?

Hound Comics is a privately held company, and is not listed on any stock exchange. Hound Comics will however discuss private investing opportunities. Please contact us to arrange a meeting at Ask@houndcomics.com

Does Hound Comics offer internships?

Hound Comics does offer unpaid internships in conjunction with school programs. However, to be considered for internship, the following information must be received:

1. Information from sponsoring school / program describing the requirements.
2. Current resume if available.
3. Letter indicating the time frame of when you are looking to intern and which department you are interested in (e.g. Editorial, Marketing, Accounting, Production, Product Development, Operations, Licensing, Legal, Administration, etc.)

For all internship related inquiries click here.

Upon receipt of the above documentation, we will review your information and respond accordingly. Due to our hectic schedule, please allow us 7-10 business days to contact you.

Please send all correspondence to:

Hound Comics, Inc.
Attn: Internships
P.O. Box 803
Levittown, New York 11756

Or E-mail:  Interns@houndcomics.com

Does Hound Comics hire artists?

The only artists on staff happen to be owners of the company. Artists and creators are welcome to forward us submissions. **See Submission Requirements

Please send all correspondence to:
Hound Comics, Inc.
Attn: Submissions
P.O. Box 803
Levittown, New York 11756  

May I use any Hound Comics artwork for my web page?

Please print the following form and mail request to:

Attn: Legal Dept
Hound Comics, Inc.
P.O. Box 803
Levittown, New York 11756

Or via E-Mail to Legal@houndcomics.com

Where can I buy Hound Comics?

To purchase Hound Comics products and merchandise please visit our distribution page here.

 

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Permission for Use

Hound Comics, Inc., as publisher, gives its permission to reproduce on an Internet Web Site the material described below (please describe the exact material to be used):

Subject to these terms and conditions:

1. Permission is granted for use of the material specified above, only for the use designated by this permission, and provided that the use is not detrimental or demeaning and does not suggest or imply sponsorship.

2. In any copy of the material, the following copyright notice and credits will appear in easily readable print in the credits of the web page and near the image:

"Published by Hound Comics, Inc." If the Hound Comics logo is used, the following notice will appear in the credits: "The Borderhounds, Brimstone and The Borderhounds, Hound Comics, and the Hound Comics logo are trademarks of Hound Comics, Inc., registered in various categories and countries."

3. This permission is personal and may not be assigned or transferred; it will terminate if not used within one year from the effective date of this agreement.

4. This permission is nonexclusive and for use only in electronic, non-profit format. Hound Comics, Inc., expressly reserves all rights and privileges on behalf of itself and any licensor, and may terminate permission to use at any time.

5. Hound Comics, Inc. will receive notification of the location of the web site in which the material appears, and the date of first appearance. A link to the Hound Comics web site (http://www.houndcomics.com/) must be provided in the web site in which the material appears.

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Publicity Requests

 If you're affiliated with a magazine, newspaper, radio station, television station or some other legitimate news-type organization and are looking for publicity information, e-mail PR@houndcomics.com. Your e-mail will be sent to someone in our PR/Marketing department and he/she will contact you shortly.

**If you are looking to interview or request a quote specifically from Brimstone; please forward your request to PublicRelations@houndcomics.com. Either Rick Eberle or Amy DiLeo will respond to your request shortly. Please do NOT contact us here for autograph requests... they can be purchased for a nominal fee via Brimstone’s Official Website.

 

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Distribution

I'm an overseas publisher and I'd like some info. Who do I contact?

Our international licensing contact is Steve Orsetti or Shana Curti:  Legal@houndcomics.com.

I'm interested in selling Hound Comics products. Whom do I contact?

Hound Comics products are available from the following vendors:

Direct (comics-specialty, non-returnable) market
Our distributor / broker for this market is:

Diamond Comic Distributors
1966 Greenspring Drive, Suite 300
Timonium, Maryland 21093
Jay Spence: (410) 560-7112 Ext: 272

Bookstore (returnable trades, graphic novels, and hardcovers)
Our distributor for this market is:

Source Interlink Companies
27500 Riverview Center Blvd.
Bonita Springs, Florida 34134
Susan Dovi:  (239) 949-4450 (US/Canada)

Newsstand (returnable comic periodical) market:
Our distributor for this market is:

Source Interlink Companies
27500 Riverview Center Blvd.
Bonita Springs, Florida 34134
Susan Dovi:  (239) 949-4450 (US/Canada)

If you feel that your business falls outside these markets, please contact:

Hound Comics Staff at Ask@houndcomics.com

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 Submissions Policy

Hound Comics will only publish creator-owned material! In a nutshell, we want to help you publish YOUR comics – we aren’t looking for you to work on our existing titles. When you look to submit your work to us, we certainly expect it to be something original, not something utilizing existing Borderhound characters. Hound will only accept proposals for a brand new series or stand alone graphic novels.

WE DO NOT ACCEPT writing (that is scripts, plots, etc.) samples! If you are an established professional, there may be a possibility that Hound could provide someone that’d be willing to work on your project; but it would be nearly impossible for us to read through every single script that may find its way into our mailbox. Please… DO NOT SEND your script or your plotline unaccompanied by art -- it will most likely be discarded, unread.

WE DO ACCEPT penciling, inking, lettering, or coloring samples. Our art department will keep all samples on file and may potentially connect you with other creators if and when the occasion presents itself. If your art-only submission is not kept on file, you will not receive a response.

The titles that Hound publishes are all creator owned/creator generated properties and WE DON'T PAY PAGE RATES. Show some initiative! Do some research and some networking and work out a deal with whomever you may end up working with, and we'll do our best to make it as painless as possible. Hound takes a small, flat fee off the books we publish and the remainder will always go to that title’s creative team. Hound is NOT involved in the way that the profit is split up between the creators involved. Not our problem… do not care!

All proposals should contain the following:

1.      A typewritten cover letter with all contact information (name, e-mail address, address, phone and fax numbers) clearly printed on the TOP of the page. You don't need to ramble on or be flowery or tell us how much you love Hound Comics, introduce yourself and get on with it. If you've had published work you could let us know about it (or even include it) but we don't need your resumé.

Presentation is not THAT important -- a pretty binder is not going to make or break a proposal. We don't green light bad projects because they're in a nice binder -- nor do we reject a good project because it's not in a nice binder. If printing colored material off of your computer at home looks poor, get it printed elsewhere -- we want to SEE how it might look on a printed page. Make sure it's printed nicely, sure, but don't worry about the packaging -- if the pages look unprofessional, it WON'T get a green light.

2.      A typed, ONE PAGE, synopsis of the overall STORY. We DO NOT want a single-issue synopsis -- we want a synopsis of the ENTIRE series or story arc. As concisely and as succinctly as you are able, TELL US THE STORY, make us interested. Please avoid hyperbole -- avoid questions as plot points ("What will Barney do when confronted with...?"), etc. We are the PUBLISHER, not the audience. TELL US WHAT HAPPENS! Explain why we (or anyone else) would be interested in this series. KEEP IT SHORT! We get thousands of submissions, cut to the chase -- if you can sell us your book with a single paragraph, do it!

You can tell us whether you see it as a full color or a black and white book, a mini or on-going series, a Prestige book or an Original Graphic Novel. There are times, however, when we may have a better idea what might fly so don't get married to any one format but we'd like to know what you have in mind. Tell us what sets it apart from other comics and who the target audience is ("Everyone" is NOT realistic -- there's no single book on the market today that everybody buys).

3.      Send photocopies of fully INKED and LETTERED pages (any size). DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL ART! We'd like to see AT LEAST five pages that are fully inked and lettered. If you have MORE than five finished pages, swell! Bring 'em on! Five is the MINIMUM we want to see - not a maximum. We want to READ it. If the lettering sucks we may suggest a different letterer for the final comic book. The important thing here is that we can SEE that you know what you're doing, that you understand where to place copy and how to tell a story.

4.      Color is OPTIONAL. If you have a colorist and can provide color pages, great! This means you CAN send in colored pages you just don't HAVE to (although, if you want a color book, it would be advisable). We DO reserve the right to approve colorists as a poor one can ruin a decent book.

5.      Include a cover mock-up -- this lets us know whether or not you understand the market and gives us a good barometer on your design sense. A good logo can be EASILY read from across the room. We DO make people change their logos OFTEN. Don't be fancy or artistic -- be CLEAR. You can send character sketches and or bios, but not in lieu of storytelling pages -- we still need to see five finished pages of sequential storytelling, lettered and inked. DO NOT send script pages -- DO NOT send unlettered pages accompanied by a script and expect us to follow along.

THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

Things often change from proposal to the printed page. If the intended title of your book is awkward or unwieldy, we may suggest changing it. If your logo is an unreadable mess, we may suggest changing it. There are cases where we've designed logos and helped redesign characters and done cover sketches. We WON'T do anything without YOUR approval, of course, but it's not uncommon for us to get pretty involved. Our ultimate goal is to sell your comic book. If you succeed, we succeed. We'll do what we can to help.

The creative team in your pitch is the one we expect to see actually working on your book. It is NOT okay to pitch a book and say it will be written by Alan Moore and drawn by Joe Madureira and then switch to another creative team. If the artist you pitched with leaves the team, go back to the end of the line and start over. This also means that on all ongoing titles, we need to be made aware of and approve ALL changes in the creative team. It's NOT okay to have six pages in issue #1 drawn by some hotshot while some guy off the street draws the rest of it.

DO NOT hand Hound employees submissions at comic book conventions. We have enough stuff to haul around as it is. Your pitch is far MORE likely to get lost, misplaced or discarded if we get it at a show.

BECAUSE WE RECEIVE SUCH A HIGH VOLUME OF SUBMISSIONS, NO PROPOSALS/SUBMISSIONS WILL BE RETURNED. Again, DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL ART TO US -- EVER. Furthermore, we do our best to respond to all submissions. But due to our very high volume, IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE A REPLY WITHIN A MONTH, YOU SHOULD CONSIDER YOUR PROPOSAL REJECTED. We make absolute certain that we get in touch with submitters that we are interested in within a month of receiving them.

Also, if you DO NOT include an e-mail address with your submission, you WILL NOT receive a reply.

DO NOT try to pull a fast one! Don't think that you can get away with saying that you had a book approved at a convention or that a previous publisher gave your book the go ahead. If your book is not up to snuff, you're just making yourself look unprofessional.

Please do not try to "impress" us with all the deals you've lined up or testimonials from your friends or family. We don't care that Stan Lee told you that your stuff looked "neat" when he was cornered in the Men's room -- we are only interested in the comic itself. Your work sells your work -- not praise from others. SHOW US why we should publish your stuff.

Send your submissions to:
Submissions
c/o Hound Comics, Inc.
P.O. Box 803 – Levittown, NY 11756

Or email to:  Submissions@houndcomics.com

We are not looking for any specific genre or type of comic book. We are looking for comics that are well written and well drawn, by people who are dedicated and can meet deadlines.

Finally, since Hound Comics, Inc. owns no intellectual properties, you can be assured, accepted or not, your property will remain yours.

We wish you the best luck and the greatest success,

The Hound Comics Creative Team

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