Join Comic Artists Direct

Gary Scott Beatty
gary@comicartistsdirect.com.

If you are a professional comic book artist (having been paid for your work) and have a body of printed work in your possession to offer for sale (several different printed comics that show you are a well published professional), we have the best place on the web for your online portfolio - Comic Artists Direct.

The basic advertising principle of our site is that several producing artists under one descriptive URL like "comicartistsdirect.com" can pull in more customers on the web than artists alone. Articles and interviews give customers more to do at the site than look at pretty pictures, although we have those too!

Each artist's individual pages include an article or more on the artist or his work, information on ordering original artwork, books and other product, and non-competitive links. The emphasis is on information, entertainment and product sales. Monthly updates keep the pages current.

One of the strengths of our site is the organization of information. It is always easy to find your way back to the main page or the artist's main page. Subpages are divided into manageable, logical sections. Graphics are chosen for appropriateness to navigation and download time. The look is "magazine," not "fanzine."

The site is promoted through flyers at cons, Comic Buyers Guide classified listings, and some eBay listings for the CAD artwork-for-sale section. You joining our site would trigger a news release program to comic-related publications (and other publications of your choice) and immediate listing with the major internet search engines. With this limited advertising budget, we have consistently pulled in 50 hits per day for over four years.

As with the other artists, your site can include:

- Your artwork for sale

- Articles about current and past projects

- Information on ordering your products

- Articles about working with different people in the industry

- "How Do They Do It?" article(s) about your own procedures

- Personal appearance listing

- Gallery of your artwork

- Prices and guidelines for fans ordering commissions from you

- Pictures you may have showing you at cons, with industry pros, etc.

- Links to Amazon.com, if your books are sold there.

Interested? email me your name, full address, phone number and a list of your credits. I will email back to you the terms and conditions of maintaining your web space. We encourage you to comparision shop to see that our terms are very reasonable for this kind of quality.

Gary Scott Beatty - gary@comicartistsdirect.com.

Thanks for considering Comic Artists Direct!