here's a story that some of you may enjoy. a few months ago a friend of mine was visiting and i wanted to show him my comics so i printed the first 20 of them out which included the website address at the bottom of each of them. he liked them and had a good laugh. i now had 20 pages of the comic in hardcopy and had no idea what to do with them. then it hit me. i can spam the spammers. every week i get about 2 credit card applications in the mail. these include a postage paid envelope. so now what i do when i get credit card spam is take a page of my comic, fold it up and put it in the pre paid envelope and mail it back. i find spamming the spammers to be fun. and the best thing about this is you might just get some fans at the application processing office.

for those of you who read this whole post what is the funniest way that you've promoted your comic?

I scratched my url into someone's car with a rock.

Jeebus Kristen, are you kidding? o.o

*stalkstalk*

Jeez, I just act like an advertisement whore.

All I do is pummel people until they go my web-comic.

I've had a few crazy ideas as to how to promote my comic. But I haven't carried through with them. But I will soon!! >:)

You could leave notes on the magnetic art things and etch-a-sketches in Wal-Mart. (I usually use those things to teach children new vocabulary... >:) ) That would only get your comic to a limited age range -- and, um, to other people like me leaving notes on them, of course.

I'm just waiting for someone to write their Web site's URL on the roof of their car and then get into a high/low-speed police chase in Los Angeles for free publicity on every station in L.A., CNN, and (for the first person who does it) all the national news broadcasts.

i place businesscards on random places around the world with just the url

"I kill people and use their blood to write the url on the wall and use their waste for ink" - testimony of a publicity-craving webcomic maker, personality 23

"Oh, publicity? I just wear the url on my skin areas. I wear nothing else" - a nudist webcomic maker sharing his success story

"Momma, what is that man doing with his butt up high in the sky?" "Oh Dear, he is just waving the morse code for his URL" - recorded video owned by Dad

"DARN IT! What is this? Everytime I type 'adults' on address bar it went straight into this rubbish comic pages!" - Quality Control Manager to IT Manager

I don't really promote my comic very often. I mean if someone comments on my artwork I might say I have a comic but otherwise, I just put modest links to it on my webpages and figure it'll do the rest.

I only put a banner in my sig cause all the cool kids were doin' it. :D

bongotezz
here's a story that some of you may enjoy. a few months ago a friend of mine was visiting and i wanted to show him my comics so i printed the first 20 of them out which included the website address at the bottom of each of them. he liked them and had a good laugh. i now had 20 pages of the comic in hardcopy and had no idea what to do with them. then it hit me. i can spam the spammers. every week i get about 2 credit card applications in the mail. these include a postage paid envelope. so now what i do when i get credit card spam is take a page of my comic, fold it up and put it in the pre paid envelope and mail it back. i find spamming the spammers to be fun. and the best thing about this is you might just get some fans at the application processing office.

That's genius.

bongotezz
here's a story that some of you may enjoy. a few months ago a friend of mine was visiting and i wanted to show him my comics so i printed the first 20 of them out which included the website address at the bottom of each of them. he liked them and had a good laugh. i now had 20 pages of the comic in hardcopy and had no idea what to do with them. then it hit me. i can spam the spammers. every week i get about 2 credit card applications in the mail. these include a postage paid envelope. so now what i do when i get credit card spam is take a page of my comic, fold it up and put it in the pre paid envelope and mail it back. i find spamming the spammers to be fun. and the best thing about this is you might just get some fans at the application processing office.

for those of you who read this whole post what is the funniest way that you've promoted your comic?

That is fantastic.

Make t-shirts with the cartoon characters and URL highly visible and give them to people you know who live paycheck-to-paycheck. Not exactly free advertising, but you know they'll wear it without prejudice, because they appreciate any article of clothing they don't have to pay for. It's kind of like having a mobile billboard.

I tend to doodle characters on napkins in restraunts while I'm waiting for my food, or for my companions to finish eating theirs. If the art isn't bad and I can throw in a one-liner, there's a decent chance I'll also include the url and leave it behind. So there are a few local (and a few wide-ranging) burger joints, chinese dinners, and buffets where the workers are aware of my characters' good (and bad) opinions of their menu choices, among other things.

Er... Maybe that's not really *funny,* per-se, but the napkins are one-line gag-strips, so that's why I'm throwing it out on this forum as 'funny' advertising. :P

I used to make tiny mini-zines: One sheet of paper folded into a little 16 page comic about the size of a business card. These are realy cheap to make (two xeroxes per zine) so it's fun to give them away and leave them places. Im going to make a bunch of these for my zine as soon as the semester is over.

Cause after the semester is over it's easier to trick people into a "fold and staple" party.