My Experience as a Comic Book Reviewer - What You Need To Know

If you read any of my articles frequently, you will see I'm a huge comic book fan. I read everything I can get my hands on. In the spirit of that, I decided over a year ago to start writing comic book reviews.

It came to me after writing a series of reviews for a site I would recommend for any comic fan: Scryptic Studios. It was mainly a site pertaining to writers of comic books, but I wrote reviews of how-to-write books, usually of a fiction writing nature. I learned here how to write a basic review, which leads into comic book reviewing.

Little money can be earned writing comic book reviews, but much can be learned. If you're interest at all in writing comic books, then writing reviews will allow you to analyze them in a different manner.

My first comic book review was published on the internet site Silver Bullet Comic Books, which was actually a big event for me. I would get a few hundred more readers there-as Silver Bullet has a loyal fan base-than I would on Scryptic. There was no pay involved, but it went into other things, which I will discuss.

I learned how to write a real comic review on Silver Bullet. Usually you want them to be 400-600 words in length. I would send the site reviews that were too short, and they would be rejected. The editors wanted a clear article of said length. I learned few tricks to doing this, like commenting on illustrations, writing style, and characters, which all make it easier to write a review of length.

So I would toy with everything, which made me study the comic books even more.

I soon branched out and started submitting to smaller comic review sites, like Paperback Reader. I read and reviewed just about everything, from the Akira graphic novel to more super hero tales like Batman, Jeremiah Harm, and Iron Man.

I was contacted by a comic publisher who had read my Silver Bullet reviews. They wanted to send me reviewer comics of many of their new series. It led to me getting over twenty free comics, which would be worth at minimum $60. I wasn't in it for the free comics, but they came nonetheless.

Which leads to my next point: If you want to write comic books become a comic reviewer. There is no better way to get into the field than meeting people, exchanging emails with publishers, and actually seeing on a consistent basis what makes for a good or poor comic.

There is money involved in being a comic book writer. You could even get a job online or in a magazine writing reviews of comic books, but I have tried some with no success. What's important was it led me into the writing field, unpaid as it was at the time.

Being a comic book reviewer for a lifetime may not be a career choice, but it can lead into other avenues like free items and meeting people with talents for writing or illustrating.

Try to write a few comic book reviews-usually you want a new copy of a comic book, one that hasn't been reviewed yet. The editors at Silver Bullet Comic Books and Paperback Reader accept submissions, so give it a try and see where it takes you.