Budget: A portion of $4,300.00 marketing and publicity budget.
Galleys: PDF galleys are available.
National Advertising: Prominent, year-round advertising in The
Comics Reporter, one of the most visited comics-focused
websites.
National Print/Online Media Campaign: We work tirelessly to market
and promote our titles; we have a large media and opinion maker
contact list, to which we send our press releases and select review
copies. We also have a smaller selection of reviewers who receive
hard copies of our titles. This has resulted in reviews, interviews
and coverage in a variety of media outlets including Avoid the
Future, Boing Boing,The Chicago Tribune, Comic Book Resources, The
Comics Beat, The Comics Journal, The Comics Reporter, The Globe and
Mail, Newsarama, Paste Magazine, Publishers Weekly, Quill and
Quire, The National Post, The New York Times, TIME Magazine, VICE
Magazine, The Washington Post and many more.
Online/Social Media Campaign: We have a strong presence on the
internet with our recently redesigned website (koyamapress.com with
over 3,000 unique visits per month), Facebook
(facebook.com/KoyamaPress with 3,400 likes), Twitter (@AnnieKoyama
with over 6,000 followers), Flickr (flickr.com/photos/koyamapress),
and Tumblr (koyamapress.tumblr.com with over 5,460 followers)
pages.
Promotion on the Author's Website: Alex Schubert has a substantial
online following demonstrated by his Twitter (@ZINEPOLICE) and
tumblr (zinepolice.tumblr.com/). Schubert has several online comics
serialized through his website,VICE Magazine and through the
popular online comics anthology whatthingsdo.com. He also sparked a
meme with his #cybergang hashtag.
General Tour Info: Koyama Press and Alex Schubert will be launching
Blobby Boys 2 at the Toronto Comic Arts Festival (TCAF) a week long
celebration of comics and graphic novels and their creators, which
culminates in a two-day exhibition and vendor fair featuring
hundreds of comics creators from around the world. This year's
festival takes place May 8-10.
Publicity and Promotion in Conjunction with the Author's Speaking
Engagements: Koyama Press has a number of branded items including
tote bags, notebooks, buttons, postcards, stickers, and activity
books that accompany artists at shows and events. These include
items utilizing the art from the book itself.
Alex Schubert was born in Mascoutah, IL and is based in Los Angeles, CA. His tumblr-based blog Zine Police features excerpts from his sketchbooks and zines including The Dudes and Blobby Boys, which MTV praised as "one of the funniest dumbest bestest webcomics we've come across in a minute." In 2014, the first collection of Blobby Boys was awarded a Silver Medal in the Long Form and Comic Strip category of The Society of Illustrators first Comic and Cartoon Art Annual.
"[Schubert] makes you think, he makes you laugh, and he makes you remember the please-don't-die artistry of comics." -- Taylor Wojick, Amadeus Magazine "[Schubert's] foul-mouthed, geometric Blobby Boys and their motley crew of co-stars are irresistible." -- Rob Kirby, The Comics Journal "Drawn not a whit more complexly than Ernie Bushmiller's Nancy, though with more angles than curves, as well as in even, solid colors, they're pretty amusing, particularly for fans of punk humor." -- Ray Olson, Booklist Online "Alex Schubert's collection of bold, bizarre comics is short, sharp and shocking -- not unlike a quick stabbing." -- Jake Austen, Chicago Tribune "The Blobby world could pass off as a sterile, sun-bleached magnet set, but hiding around each sharp corner is something purely rude and wholly entertaining." -- Zack Kotzer, Newsarama "Everything about this comic is appealingly minimal -- the sparse panels, block coloring, limited narration and dialogue -- and it all works together well. Schubert's economy makes the gags about surfing robots and cunning art critics that much better because he never forces the words and art to do more than they need to: the deadpan laffs come naturally." -- Ken Parille, The Comics Journal "There's an almost Axe Cop-like, written-by-a-child feel to the story, only with some adult cynicism mixed in. Schubert's bold, machine-precise image-making, in which every character and object looks like something that could be a logo for something, is hard to describe, but easy to appreciate." -- J. Caleb Mozzocco, Comic Book Resources
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