Hey folks,
I've been running a site that is dedicated to reviewing webcomics/comics. There are hardly if any webcomic review sites and this is certainly a way for folks out there to know about your comic, rather than just viewing a picture.
There is a donate feature installed if you are feeling 'civil'. If you want a standard review, that is free of charge. If you want a premium review, that will cost you a mere $3 which gives you an in-depth review with numerous pictures of your comic. You can get the 'big cat' feature which costs $5 which is an in-depth review, plus an interview with the artist and writer with an extra insight into the comic.
If you are interested in any of the services, contact me at havehope86@yahoo.com

peace,

This sounds very interesting, would you mind posting a link to your site?

Sure,
This is the link: www.webcomicworld.blogspot.com

A professional review would be interesting. Could you please give a quick rundown of why I would want you to review my comic, as opposed to someone who tells me my comic sucks for free?

And thanks for the link, I'll check it out.

Feel free to review penis.

i dont have money i can waste but i like the revew idea

review my sexy comic.

I would have thought that, from a journalistic standpoint, there are significant problems with creators *paying* the critics for an in-depth review. Does this sort of thing happen often?

theleast
I would have thought that, from a journalistic standpoint, there are significant problems with creators *paying* the critics for an in-depth review. Does this sort of thing happen often?

Of course! How do you think Hollywood became considered full of brilliance? Quality?

More often than not, you actually need to pay to get your stuff reviewed. That's how it normally works. Unless your book/comic/album just gets reviewed due to fame, you normally need to pay.

darkedgecomics
More often than not, you actually need to pay to get your stuff reviewed. That's how it normally works. Unless your book/comic/album just gets reviewed due to fame, you normally need to pay.

Thanks, that makes sense. And so, you'd get your comic professionally reviewed because you want to get your comic up to the next level, right?

So what comics have you done this with? Are there any successful writers who can vouch for your services? I notice you post a blurb of the comic up on yoru blog. What is the traffic of your blog, and is it frequented by anyone recognizable in the industry?

theleast
I would have thought that, from a journalistic standpoint, there are significant problems with creators *paying* the critics for an in-depth review. Does this sort of thing happen often?

Yeah, I thought about this too. Obviously anyone willing to pay for a review should have a good comic, but there might be those who just want an ego boost. Imagine having to do an in-depth review about a crappy comic? Obviously the review would have to be bad, but then you'd have to get the money first, because if you review someone and say that their comic is bad they're probably going to get their feelings hurt and are not going to want to pay you.

Can you review my comic Messed Up?? please?

ccs1989

theleast
I would have thought that, from a journalistic standpoint, there are significant problems with creators *paying* the critics for an in-depth review. Does this sort of thing happen often?

Yeah, I thought about this too. Obviously anyone willing to pay for a review should have a good comic, but there might be those who just want an ego boost. Imagine having to do an in-depth review about a crappy comic? Obviously the review would have to be bad, but then you'd have to get the money first, because if you review someone and say that their comic is bad they're probably going to get their feelings hurt and are not going to want to pay you.

Maybe I should go into business. I'll tell you your comic is gold and put it on my blog for 2.90. That's a .10 savings over the other guys!

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ccs1989
Yeah, I thought about this too. Obviously anyone willing to pay for a review should have a good comic, but there might be those who just want an ego boost. Imagine having to do an in-depth review about a crappy comic? Obviously the review would have to be bad, but then you'd have to get the money first, because if you review someone and say that their comic is bad they're probably going to get their feelings hurt and are not going to want to pay you.

I've written for some gaming (both Mac and PC) publications in the past and I've had to review some rather sub-standard titles, but they never *payed* for a review. All they had to do was send us a free copy of the game and that was enough for us to give it a fair hearing - the length/depth of the review depended on the significance of the product rather than the publisher's marketing budget.

If this is indeed common practice in the comics industry, then I think it's something worth discouraging wherever possible (though there's every chance I'll have to eat my words at some point in the future when I'm trying to spread word about my own comics).

Hey man can ya check out my comic for reveiw please?

Oh, there are quite a bunch of webcomic reviewers out there, most of them aren't very well-known though.

Anyway, I like constructive reviews, but I wish to get more pages up before I submit my comic for any reviews. That and I haven't exactly been updating much lately.

You've got a good deal of content on the site so far, but I would caution people to wait until this particular site startes getting a good deal of traffic before they pay for a review.
As it is I'm not really impressed with the quality of the reviews. You need to be a lot more descriptive. Just saying "it's funny" or "it's cute" or "it's interesting" doesn't tell the audience much. WHY is it these things? Elaborate!

Ya,
Css1989, when I do the standar free review, it is really a run-down of whether to check the comic and why. This is not an in-depth review, so there is no elaboration. Due to the extremely high volume of guys that want their free review and with other stuff I have to do with my life, it's hard to go in-depth in so many reviews.
But this blog is still in its beginning stage and I hope it becomes the central place for all webcomic guys!

peace,

Huh. Charging for reviews. Now there's something I would never have thought of.

At any rate, you can sign me up for a standard one. The link's in my sig.

Your comic is awesome. Yes, you. *Your* comic is a stroke of genius, and is awesome, and you can quote me on that.

$4.50 please.

(mod: please stop baiting other users.)

feel free to review mine:
http://drunkduck.com/A_Call_to_Destiny__NC_17
There's no such thing as bad press.

Most interesting. Has anyone actually payed you yet? In any case, I would love a review of Greetings and Salutations, if you can fit it in your schedule.

Greetings and Salutations

mapaghimagsik
Your comic is awesome. Yes, you. *Your* comic is a stroke of genius, and is awesome, and you can quote me on that.

$4.50 please.

Checks in the mail.

Why on earth would anyone pay for a comic review?
Nevermind it isn't even in print, it's on a website. A website, i may add, that i've never heard of.
Must be popular.
How many hits does this site get in a day/week/month? Is it worth it?
Powered by blogspot, which is a free blogging site, this guy has no overhead. 5 bucks for 10 minutes of time. That's $30 bucks an hour. Niiiice.

But hey, i guess people have money to blow and are willing to pay a one time small fee for a one time, not every in depth review.

draxenn
Why on earth would anyone pay for a comic review?
Nevermind it isn't even in print, it's on a website. A website, i may add, that i've never heard of.
Must be popular.
How many hits does this site get in a day/week/month? Is it worth it?
Powered by blogspot, which is a free blogging site, this guy has no overhead. 5 bucks for 10 minutes of time. That's $30 bucks an hour. Niiiice.

But hey, i guess people have money to blow and are willing to pay a one time small fee for a one time, not every in depth review.

No need to get hostile, now. :) The tone I get from your post is that he's a scam artist and anyone who takes him up on his services is gullible and/or stupid, which I really don't think is fair at all.

It's a fairly new enterprise, he only made the post here a week or two ago (and we don't know if he was charging before then), so it's not likely he'll have had many paying customers yet. No one who starts anything on the internet is likely to have much traffic in the first few months of its life. As a webcomic author you ought to know that better than anyone. :) And as you've pointed out, there's no overhead to him, so why shouldn't he give it a shot? He isn't losing anything. People who don't pay him for it aren't losing anything, either... so there's nothing to get so aggressive about.

We don't know what kind of traffic he gets, and we don't really know how long it takes him to do a paid review, but 10 minutes seems like an ungenerous estimate. It takes me ten minutes to check my PQs in the morning. If the ones he has on the site are the 'basic' review, that seems like an hour of time at least. Maybe he could put examples up of each kind of review, so people get an idea of the length/depth they'd be paying for. Even if he has to do one example of each for free (maybe all on the same comic so it's easier to see the differences).

He's said already that the short reviews are the ones people haven't paid for - you'll note there are a lot of people who certainly want whatever free publicity/feedback they can get (note several of the replies in this thread), and I think a quite short review is fair. They're getting something for nothing (unless you count the 30 seconds it took them to type "hey check out my comic!" as something). It's quite difficult in the webcomic world to get any kind of attention, review, or critique, at any depth. It's completely possible that some people may be willing to pay for it. I don't think there's anything wrong with someone trying to offer that service. Each person will have to make a decision about whether it would be worth it to them, and if they'd want whatever reply they got, but the whole thing seems fair enough to me.

Let's not forget that in order to review a comic, you have to read at least some of it. If he charges $5 to Write a review on a 200+ page comic, that is more than fair for the time (there are some webcomics you couldn't pay me to read.) That being said, I won't be paying for a review, or even requesting a free one. It looks like there is plenty of work to do as it is for me to throw in my own comic.

Yeah Skoolmunkee, that's the basic point.

To do a standard free review does take me about 5-10 minutes. I read through a fair bit of their comic and then review it. But for a premium review, that is a whole other kettle of fish. This kind of review involves me reading the ENTIRE comic or at least two-thirds of it if it is extremely long. Then I'd have to look in detail at the whole site for any other extra features they have and how well they work and are presented. Then, I'd write a more in-depth review going into detail at the strengths and weaknesses of the comic. That is some serious effort that deserves some little cash. Also, I live in the U.K. so you have to think about the exchange rate.
The main thing I want to achieve is a place that webcomic guys can go and see exactly what webcomics are good out there. There are no places out there and little comments from other users won't really help you in your webcomic.

peace,

Remember guys, stay tuned into the central discussion destination for webcomic.
www.webcomicworld.blogspot.com