Broken Frontier is a magazine-style website which focuses on comics, particularly small press and self-published work. They do a lot of comics reviews, promotion and news features on that subject. I plan to send my comics here for review to help with promotion when they are ready. Before that, I wanted to look into their process for requesting reviews, and found that they have a really in depth page that answers the question 'How do I get coverage for my self-published comic?'
Below is some key points which I found useful:
"For review requests, digital or hard copies. If you want to send hard copies to a particular staff member, please contact us for details. Due to the international whereabouts of our staff, we don’t list a public mailing address. Since we receive multiple review requests daily, we cannot cover all requests. We do, however, share requests that fit within our coverage area across the team and cover as much material as possible."How to pitch that e-mail request:
So to sum up. This is what we always suggest when e-mailing Broken Frontier for small press coverage.
(i) A couple of short sentences about the comic’s style, themes, subject matter and why it may be of interest to the reviewer given previous coverage.
(ii) A couple of sample pages.
(iii) A link to your site/store.
(i) A couple of short sentences about the comic’s style, themes, subject matter and why it may be of interest to the reviewer given previous coverage.
(ii) A couple of sample pages.
(iii) A link to your site/store.
Always offer a choice of physical or digital copy for review if possible"