OVS - The Long Weekend

Well, it's been a long two weeks of work, having taken on extra hours to pay for the next comic as well as trying to get the last of Omnivistascope 4 finished in my remaining spare time. I'm not quite there yet, I have work today and then the rest of the weekend to put the comic together.

There's still a lot to do, and already tired, I have to be careful not to make any mistakes at this stage. A moment's carelessness will stay in print forever!

Also toiling away, or relaxing post-toil, are the artistic genii who translate my mind gibberings into readable comic pages. My thoughts are with them at this trying time.

It's undoubtedly the best issue to date, I've made some real progress on the writing front with some of the latest material and there is some frankly astonishing art in there as well.

However I've increasingly come to learn that the making of a comic is only half the battle. Promotion, marketing your comic is just as important, if not more so. For someone who wants to remain independent and do comics for the sake of wanting to do comics, it feels wrong that I should have to resort to advertising and self-promotion. Shouldn't the comic sell itself?

But that's not how the world works. Nobody will buy your comic/book/film/novelty egg cup unless they know it exists and they have enough information to decide whether it will be for them. So I'll be struggling, post comic release, with that foul abomination from the most loathsome pits of hell - marketing. I feel ill just thinking about it. Any suggestions on a postcard, please.

The fridge is full of red bull and I'm preparing my mind for the titanic struggle ahead as I wrangle stories, corral files, herd letters and hopefully dispatch Omnivistascope issue 4 to the waiting printers on Monday morning.

Time for me to go to work.

The blog may not be updated for the next few days, unless I get bored or need a break!