Tag: The comic Industry

Promoting Artist, Artist Awareness

The way the internet is today, it is hard for small entrepreneur and it is no different for artist. If you are a traditional artist who paint acrylic, oil, watercolor, or mix media; if you do not have money you cannot get into an Art Gallery. Gallery around the USA are high class clubs who draw sunflowers.

If you are comic book writer and you want Diamond Comic Distribution to publish your work in stores, then Diamond will only pay you $0.25 per comic sold which does not faction your print cost. No one want to work for pennies that is not fair.

And it is very hard selling your original work at comic con and anime con because people at these event want to buy fan art. Many artist get stuck spending so much time and money on created fan art that they cannot do the kind of work they would like to do. Art is a way of expressing one point of view so when an artist is stuck at creating work that they don’t want to create, than it turn into any other job and not working for what you love. And this is not just small artist, there are artist who work for Marvel that are stuck drawing heroes when they would like to explore other subject matter.

We need a new way of marketing artist, so I will invited Artist to reach out to me so I can promote them on my blog. This will provide more support and more people will be able to found them. Zazu Zine + Comix publishing is also will be promoting location artist to Virginia with video interview. The video below is an interview of two Artist from Galaxy Con 2019 in Richmond, VA. Zazu is focus on Virginia because Zazu is location in Richmond, VA.

However, for these who are not location, you can contact me on this blog and we can work out a digital interview and promote your art on this blog. The reason why I am doing this is because we need more artist awareness. There are many people who would like to know about new artist and new content.

Artist from Video:

  1. Ed Pokoj, Instagram @edpokojillustrator
  2. Kevin Spain, Instagram @kevinindieart

Reference links:

  1. www.zazuzine.com
  2. www.mariahargis.com
  3. https://richmond.galaxycon.com/

New Blog on WordPress Call “Little Elf in Big Pond of Drama, The Comic Industry.”

I have created a new blog on WordPress to reach more people on a different platform. It have been hard to get the work out about my website and my blog on here. So I thought I would start to build my name on other platform until I have a large follower base on there so I could direct them to website.

Before it or not but I am reaching more people on WordPress than Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube. It took forever to get people to reach to my post on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube. And I found out why that was the case, Google and Facebook both have been painting my name is a bad light. Facebook have classification me as a public figure and have post my followers count on the search engine Google and got the count wrong. And they did not stop there, Facebook post another link to my Facebook page with the follower count lower than the one before. Here is a snapshot of it.

I have wrote about this on my blog so if you would like the whole story, than check it out: DuckDuckGo vs Google, Part I.

I have not giving up on this blog instead I will be updating a lot of the post on here with videos to go with them. And I will posting more video content on here. I will used this place as a center place for all my platforms I am on. Because of the environmental of the internet, I will be branching out to more platform to get my message out there.

I do two new social media platforms I am on:

  1. VERO as my self Maria Hargis

  2. MINDS as sakiLeo

If you was wondering about the username Saki Leo that I use a lot for that. I used to play a lot of dating sims on my phone and I like using the name Saki Tanaka as my character name. So I adopt the Saki from that and the Leo is because I am Leo, born in August.