Bramble Vine Comics

Here are some photos of the promotional material I created for the various comic book conventions I'll be attending to try and sell my books. The first convention will be the Small Press Expo (SPX) in Bethesda next month. I have everything ready at this point.

The paper flyers were pretty easy. I just got a couple of my single page comics, added a little blurb and my site's URL at the bottom and then printed them out on colored copy paper on my home printer. I used a paper cutter to cut them down to hand-out size.

The postcards came out very slick. They have a glossy coating on stiff card stock, just like any other postcard you may have seen. I had 100 printed up of each of the two designs you see in the photos and it was pretty cheap. I used iPrint.com for those.

The pins came out way better than I thought. These are glossy on the front and regular metal clip pins on the back. They look very professional and the place that printed them up, rockbuttons.com, did a fantastic job. I ordered a batch of 250 from them with the two images you see in the photos. I then went out to Hobby Lobby and picked up a bag of small zip-lock bags and stuffed in the pins. I then printed out several sheets of the label on regular red copy paper and stapled them onto the bags. I think the packaged presentation really adds a lot to the look of the pins as collectible items. These I'll sell for $0.50 each at the conventions.

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