Marketing Monday: No-Brainer Marketing Efforts
Thanks to Adam Kubert, today’s Marketing Monday column will be delayed until later this evening.* So far, we’ve looked at the five basic steps to developing a simple marketing plan and how they specifically relate to marketing comics. Last week, I put forth five specific marketing efforts, no-brainers that every aspiring publisher should be ready
Comic Book Commentary v2.0 and Other Stuff
Random, somewhat connected thoughts on the site, traffic and future plans… ITEM: Ever since I got back on the blogging horse late last year, traffic has been on a steady upswing, which is very nice. January was our best month since our peak early last summer, and February is tracking quite nicely. Many, many thanks
On Soliciting Reviews, Entitlement and Reaction Sheets
“You get what you get, and you don’t get upset.” –Isaac D. Gonzalez, 6 years old An interesting debate broke out over the weekend at Johanna Draper Carlson’s blog, Comics Worth Reading, in response to a post entitled, Stupid Publisher Tricks: Review Copies and Guilt Trips (and its follow-up, Another Argument Against Review Copies), that
Graphic Poetry: The Poem as Comic Strip
Talk about when two worlds collide?!! (via The Comics Reporter) The Poem as Comic StripGraphic novelists let loose in our archive. Heightened language–one possible or partial definition of poetry–isn’t the first thing one associates with comics. Yet comic book artists take into account the way words appear on the page to a degree poets will
On the Shelves: 6/7/06
Support GOOD Comics! Try something new EVERY month. My weekly look at select comic books being released Thursday, 6/8/06. The full shipping is list available at ComicList. [NOTE: Not all of these titles will actually arrive in all stores. If your LCBS offers a pre-ordering service, be sure to take advantage of it. If not,
Anniversary Time!
Wow! Three years and eight years, respectively. Crazy shit! ACENTOS THIRD ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATIONTuesday, March 28th @ 7:00pmfeaturing TRIO CON CUATRO,plus a Showcase of past features from the series’ three year run,With a special performance by SAHELI Our anniversary fiesta promises to be off all chains possible! Come check out a special presentation of the premier
COMMENT: Men of Tomorrow, Today?
I’ve had Gerard Jones’ enthralling must-read, MEN OF TOMORROW, on my mind a lot the past few days, thanks as much to the Speakeasy fiasco as my general feelings about the comics industry lately. So much of what I see happening with seemingly naive creators getting screwed over by inept publishers with big plans and
NY Comic-Con Journal: Day 2
Crazy. Crowded. Lot of fun. After-party was off the hook, exceeding my expectations. Two panels tomorrow with no sleep. Yikes! Sleep now… Packed to the rafters. PopCultureShock booth and back of Senior Games Editor Howard Brown’s head. ((FREQUENCIES)) and Necromancer writer, Joshua Ortega. Elsinore and Monkey vs. Lemur writer, Ken Lillie-Paetz Nostalgia Rampage! Cool Superman
Google Me
A co-worker/friend of mine is tracking himself through googlerankings.com, trying to get his site listed as the number one search on Google, Yahoo! and MSN for his name. Out of curiousity, I manually searched my full name on each of the search engines to see what my years on the internet have reaped. Google Top
Blog, I have forsaken thee…
Remember when I used to post every day, sometimes multiple times a day? Those were heady times, between the war and the elections and the poetry scene, etc. Nowadays, I don’t think I’m even averaging one post a week. Part of the reason is that comics have pretty much taken over the little bit of