In order to increase our language skills, my mother used to order me and my sister to read English newspaper on Sundays. She probably never forced us to read it rest of the week days because our lunches were packed in the same newspaper rest of the week. There was high probability that we will read; even a single line; while unwrapping them or eating them. Mum will always be Mum, Cutely Clever!
Mostly the packing of our lunches were done with the paper having short stories, crosswords, chess move and COMICS. Cutely Clever Na! Mum will always be Mum!
Recently I visited to a Pizza Restaurant and found the crossword and fill color kind of Pamphlet. My friend started and solving it while waiting for the order to be served. It reminds me of my childhood. When I used to do the same, like solving cross, thinking chess move (which I never able to solve in my entire school life) while eating my school lunch.
A pathetic joke cracked by a friend of mine changes the whole screenplay and I was back in restaurant mentally. When we started puling his leg over his joke.
He surrendered saying "Its not mine! I read it over a comic on FB".
Screenplay Changed! I was again in my childhood reading comics and sometime editing them with our script. Technically, on the same visuals we used to script crazy and rubbish comments.
"Who's gonna pay the bill"? I am back again ,"Only School Lunches were FREE!" I sighed.
In night I logged in to FB and saw a news feed that YOMICS has been launched by Uday Chopra.
I felt like, Comics are Back!
Over time, a number of formats, from the comic book to the webcomic, have become closely associated with the form. Comics have been presented within a wide number of publishing and typographical formats, from the very short panel cartoon or comic strip to the more lengthy graphic novel.
Graphic Art as an industry has not seen much prominence in the world and even much less here in Pakistan, yet I look around my self, I can't help but notice that Comics by Arslan had played a key role in promotion (publicity, in case he is not being paid for it) of Drama Serial Hamsafar.
A person like me who has not watch the drama before, at-least give it a look. From marketing view point team Hamsafar with, direct or indirect, help of Comics by Arslan was able to promote their product.
In Bollywood YRJ Films has promoted Dhoom Film Series, Ek tha tiger through Yomics. And possibly going to promote nearly all the movies under YRJ Films umbrella via Yomics onwards
Super Man, Bat Man, Iron Man in Hollywood has been born by Comic Artists. Thousand of Marketing, Advertising & Branding Campaigns and hundreds of others businesses are still alive due to these comics Artists. DC Comics & Marvel Comics are couple of example.
Social, Political and Economical Cartoons are daily publish in hundreds of language around the world. So this entertainment thing is serious.
With huge success comes huge responsibility!
Artist should feel his/her responsibility. Hate, Blasphemous, Anti-Religious and Violent should always be avoided in any circumstances.
It is good to see that now artist are getting experiencing bigger and better platform to showcase their talent. Marketing and Advertising Profeesional have identified a new way to promote their goods and services. Apart from that, Many people are adoting comics and graphical art as a hobby and off-beat career.
A panel on Indy Marketing 101 has told few things to know about making comics and market them.
The first is to be aggressive. You need to figure out the difference between being aggressive and being a douche. Most comic artists are not being aggressive enough when marketing their comic. The most interesting comics are often picked over the hippest comics.
I also believe that out of the box thinking is something very enjoyable and entertaining about Graphic Art. If you are introducing your self as a comic artist it is better to start with playing it safe.
Other advice for comic artists in terms of marketing:
Mostly the packing of our lunches were done with the paper having short stories, crosswords, chess move and COMICS. Cutely Clever Na! Mum will always be Mum!
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Recently I visited to a Pizza Restaurant and found the crossword and fill color kind of Pamphlet. My friend started and solving it while waiting for the order to be served. It reminds me of my childhood. When I used to do the same, like solving cross, thinking chess move (which I never able to solve in my entire school life) while eating my school lunch.
A pathetic joke cracked by a friend of mine changes the whole screenplay and I was back in restaurant mentally. When we started puling his leg over his joke.
He surrendered saying "Its not mine! I read it over a comic on FB".
Screenplay Changed! I was again in my childhood reading comics and sometime editing them with our script. Technically, on the same visuals we used to script crazy and rubbish comments.
"Who's gonna pay the bill"? I am back again ,"Only School Lunches were FREE!" I sighed.
In night I logged in to FB and saw a news feed that YOMICS has been launched by Uday Chopra.
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| Yomics.com |
I felt like, Comics are Back!
Over time, a number of formats, from the comic book to the webcomic, have become closely associated with the form. Comics have been presented within a wide number of publishing and typographical formats, from the very short panel cartoon or comic strip to the more lengthy graphic novel.
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| Yomics.com |
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| ComicsbyArslan.com |
A person like me who has not watch the drama before, at-least give it a look. From marketing view point team Hamsafar with, direct or indirect, help of Comics by Arslan was able to promote their product.
In Bollywood YRJ Films has promoted Dhoom Film Series, Ek tha tiger through Yomics. And possibly going to promote nearly all the movies under YRJ Films umbrella via Yomics onwards
 |
| Google Images |
Social, Political and Economical Cartoons are daily publish in hundreds of language around the world. So this entertainment thing is serious.
With huge success comes huge responsibility!
Artist should feel his/her responsibility. Hate, Blasphemous, Anti-Religious and Violent should always be avoided in any circumstances.
It is good to see that now artist are getting experiencing bigger and better platform to showcase their talent. Marketing and Advertising Profeesional have identified a new way to promote their goods and services. Apart from that, Many people are adoting comics and graphical art as a hobby and off-beat career.
 |
| Google Images |
A panel on Indy Marketing 101 has told few things to know about making comics and market them.
The first is to be aggressive. You need to figure out the difference between being aggressive and being a douche. Most comic artists are not being aggressive enough when marketing their comic. The most interesting comics are often picked over the hippest comics.
I also believe that out of the box thinking is something very enjoyable and entertaining about Graphic Art. If you are introducing your self as a comic artist it is better to start with playing it safe.
Other advice for comic artists in terms of marketing:
- Don’t send out the same press release. Change it up so that you’re not repeating yourself. Otherwise, you seem desperate and often annoy the comic press people you’re trying to get interested in your work.
- Add images of your work with press releases in small files. If its 500MB, chances are that it won’t be seen.
- Publish often so that you keep an online readership interested.
- If you aggressively market your comic for six months and don’t hear any response back, try something new. Change up your comic a little bit. It might yield successful re
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