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Comic Book Conventions as a Promotion Tool

Friday, December 19th, 2008

Pt. 4 of Dan Head’s Expert Village series about self-publishing comics. In this installment he touches on your promotional game plan; taking more than just your comics to the public.  For those of you that want to skip ahead, visit him on Expert Village.

Let me know what you think by leaving a comment, I will do my best to bring your more information & opinions from others that have experience in self-publishing comics and graphic novels.

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About the author:

Dan Head is a veteran writer and small press comic publisher. He wrote and self-published his first graphic novel, Bronx Angel: Politics By Another Method, in 2005. It has since been picked up for a second printing by the Repercussion Comics Group. Dan has also worked professionally for Platinum Studios, has written and edited for the popular episodic webcomic Awesome Storm Justice 41, has finished writing and started production on a second graphic novel called Green Mountain Gunslinger, and has established himself as a noted columnist and comic reviewer at Paperbackreader.Com, where he is a full partner. Dan is currently at work on his first prose novel and runs the weekly Writing Exercises on the Awesome Storm Justice-41 forum.

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In the beginning…

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

This is not my first foray into comics, I have been a fan of comics since the age of 6. I have been enjoying them off and on for about 22 years. I have been creating them off and on since the age of 12. At 16, I once had my artwork reviewed by a local man that worked for Marvel Comics back in the 70’s and 80’s, he was impressed and told me if I kept t it I would have no problem getting in the door to Marvel.

Like the tool I am, I stopped drawing. I even stopped reading them.

Fast forward about a decade and after flirting with the idea a few times, here I am, taking the craft serious once again but not knowing where to get started or what exactly I want to do with this renewed passion.

A pal of mine suggested I make a blog and discuss the things related to developing my project, the subject matter and anything else I can think of to attract others to help me and hopefully to get help for themselves.

So here it is, INSIDE INKWEST, a blog about creativity, where it goes from here is up to us.

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