How/Who/Where to get reviews?

[scott]

How/Who/Where to get smart impactful reviews for a recently completed, self-published, oddball graphic novel? 
I am holding a marker over a packing envelope right now.  Who do I mail this thing to? 
Please tell me before the sharpie fumes knock me out.  Oh, the fumesss. 

[bakertoons]

Bumping because I wanna know myself.

One site I know of is Optical Sloth. They reviewed a bunch of my comics over the years - www.opticalsloth.com/

High Low is another - highlowcomics.blogspot.com/

[floyd]

ive sent comics to both optical sloth and rob Clough probably about a year or more ago and still no dice

[awfulquiet]

There's Four Color Apocalypse, formerly hosted here: fourcolorapocalypse.wordpress.com/

but now all on Patreon (mix of free and subscriber-only stuff): www.patreon.com/fourcolorapocalypse


also it seems like there are a lot of comics review youtube pages these days, moreso than blogs/publications.

[dustinh]

Feb 10, 2023 16:02:51 GMT awfulquiet said:

There's Four Color Apocalypse, formerly hosted here: fourcolorapocalypse.wordpress.com/

but now all on Patreon (mix of free and subscriber-only stuff): www.patreon.com/fourcolorapocalypse


also it seems like there are a lot of comics review youtube pages these days, moreso than blogs/publications.

Four Color Apocalypse is great! 

Has anyone had much luck/interaction with comics Youtube? I know it's a big community, but I'm not sure where to start. 

[scott]

I've done a few interviews and had my stuff mentioned or talked about on youtube a bit. My linktree has the links if you're curious: linktr.ee/scottfinchart

Most recently Carson at Living the Line did a nice overview and an interview.

[Scott Gerard Ruhl]

I sent a copy to TCJ for review. Anyone here ever have any luck with them reviewing your book?

[TomMurphy]

Mar 22, 2023 23:57:04 GMT Scott Gerard Ruhl said:

I sent a copy to TCJ for review. Anyone here ever have any luck with them reviewing your book?

Last autumn I packed off a PDF on spec and was pleasantly surprised to get a review within a few days (as a tiny UK 'publisher' with little or no Transatlantic reach). 

I'm sure I saw Tegan O'Neil write somewhere on her socials or newsletter that she doesn't receive as much stuff as you'd expect, and if you send her something you've got a decent chance of seeing it reviewed

[TomMurphy]

Jan 12, 2022 21:44:48 GMT scott said:

How/Who/Where to get smart impactful reviews for a recently completed, self-published, oddball graphic novel? 
I am holding a marker over a packing envelope right now.  Who do I mail this thing to? 
Please tell me before the sharpie fumes knock me out.  Oh, the fumesss. 

I'd certainly recommend Broken Frontier, although it's now pretty much Andy on his own, so he's limited in the percentage of stuff he can cover.

Disclosure: I was managing editor there a few years ago, but stepped back to concentrate on our own stuff

[Weaverwerx]

Mar 22, 2023 16:50:53 GMT scott said:

I've done a few interviews and had my stuff mentioned or talked about on youtube a bit. My linktree has the links if you're curious: linktr.ee/scottfinchart

Most recently Carson at Living the Line did a nice overview and an interview.

I checked out your linktree; that's very helpful for finding new places to send comix for reviews. 
I also was unfamiliar with your work, so I'm enjoying that too!