Here is the short version: I want to expand my audience and I’d like you to help. I will give this piece of original art away next week to SOMEone who does SOMEthing, which I will reveal to you in just a few column inches.
To anyone who links to this blog post, or retweets my tweet linking to this post, I will stick your name in a hat and draw a name out next Tuesday, February 9. Let’s say at noon. That’s pretty much it. Most of the time my blog will sense links to it and list them as “trackbacks;” but it’s probably better to let me know, either in the comments section below, or by email at dusty[at]dharbin[dot]com.
One entry per person; I won’t be upset if you retweet every once in a while, but it won’t earn you additional “chances.” It might earn you the opprobrium of your various Twitter audiences, so be careful with that. Let’s not spam anyone, especially with MY GOOD NAME!
The art itself is from a couple of years ago; it’s the original drawing I did while planning the–apparently difficult to understand–strip I posted this week. I will say that, while I obviously like the new version better, this one still looks pretty good, much less mortifying to me than I thought it would be. It’s about 12.5″ x 7, ink on bristol, and looks sharp.
Okay get on out there and make me famous! And thank you in advance for your kind help!
UPDATE! Lots of response to this; I’ve decided to extend the cut-off to Wednesday February 10 at 4pm EST, AND, if my follower count hits 750 on Twitter by then, I’ll give away THREE pieces of art instead of one. So get out there and pimp me suckaz!
Yep, happy to help out. Please enjoy the tiny attentions of all 13 of my followers.
Tweeted and blogged! The blog's still a bit new, so it's not the biggest hit magnet in the world yet, but there's one more bit of Google fodder for you. Good luck, man!
http://www.colliercomics.com/wordpress/?p=736
Thanks Henry! Thanks Wedge! Although I'm less interested in Google rankings than actual real readers. But if one leads to the other, who am I to complain?
Done! May your readership expand exponentially, good sir.
retwitted… please keep them coming
Re-tweeted! I'd post it on FB too if it wasn't being screwy.
It IS being screwy, isn't it? Someone wants to pay me money too, and I can't reply to their message!
I tweetoged and bloteged. Yep. Sho nuff did. http://spaghettijunk.blogspot.com/2010/02/dharbin…
Facebook is celebrating it's 6th birthday by not working. Can't blame it really. I always try to not work on my birthday.
Re-tweeted, oh yes I did.
Hey Dusty. I put a link up on Facebook. Hope it helps and best of luck!
J.
[...] a bit of the old ultra-self-promotion and offering up an original bit of his art as a prize for spreading his good name on Twitter. We like Dustin, we like Twitter, we like comic art. Frankly I don’t see how this can go [...]
retweeted (@fredfrances).
Thanks Fred! Weird that it didn't show up in my little @mentions column. Also thanks Jason! And Emma! And everybody!
linked
Linked (http://kleefeldoncomics.blogspot.com/2010/02/dustin-harbin-is-giving-away-original.html) and indirectly Tweeted (http://twitter.com/skleefeld/status/8808706958) Hope it leads to your fame and fortune!
posted.
Cool illo, stip and contest.
I retweeted for ya!
[...] probably a bad idea to take a week off my strip while in the middle of trying to build my audience with a goofy promotion. I couldn’t think of anything to make a strip ABOUT though, and was in the middle of trying [...]
@vid_production has retweeted. Good luck with it all
@thatdanmiller retweeted
yamasmotors re-tweeted and I gave you a shameless plug on Cooper's blog: http://chucka-nuts.blogspot.com/
Good luck taking over the world bud.
James thank you! But what is "yamasmotors?" Is that part of a spell you're casting? On ME?? Come on James–manners.
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