Friday Archive Dive: Making a Media Kit
Friday, July 23, 2010 at 5:01AM Today's Archive Dive is from May 5, 2010, when we discussed making a media kit to have on hand during comic conventions.
In this month's To-Do list, it is suggested that you prepare a media kit for the summer convention season. What is a media kit, and why do you need one? A media kit is a folder that contains information about you and your comic, along with samples of your work, recent press releases and other promotional material. It is handed to a member of the media to enable (or encourge) them to cover your work in their publication. In short, a media kit is, as the name implies, the building blocks to the story that you want the world to know. In preparing the media kit, you are giving the journalist everything she needs to tell the story that you want to have told. Here are a few things you might like to consider including in yours:
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