Since 1998 Comic Bits Online has offered small pressers free and unbiased reviews of their books to a world wide audience of thousands per day.
Most it seems are still complaining no one takes their books seriously but offers to review their books...ignored as they continue to moan.
I have also just had the fourth (it might be fifth but I couldn't care less) slap down from a local zine event.; Applied as soon as the event was announced but "Oh so many applied -sorry" (yeah, cliques and mates).
Someone suggested "maybe its because you publish super hero books? How fecking ignorant can you be? I DO NOT "just publish super hero" books as anyone who ever visited the online store or checked out the CBO posts should know I publish across all genres as well as books on wildlife and history (real books with lots of words).
So after all of these years here is my new policy:
NO MORE SMALL PRESS REVIEWS UNLESS THERE IS SOMETHING EXCEPTIONAL ABOUT THEM.
Quite honestly the small press as well as what are left of comics -including events- in this country have been taken over by people with no real interest in the genres. It is all a closed old pals or cliques.
UK comic events lost my support over this and so, too, has the "small press". The Zine Zone blog is being closed as of today.
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