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Alex De Campi's New Kickstarter – One Week, One Reward, Two Graphic Novels

Kickstarter has a new thing. All In 1.

In which people do Kickstarters for one week, with one reward.

And one of those people is Alex De Campi. And she is using it for two graphic novels, the pair for $33. 

175 backers and the books are digital. 732 and one gets printed. 1000 and they both get printed.

The first, Tycho Base, is a 100-page sci-horror book drawn by Stephen Morrow will be finishing the line art, and coloured by Chris O'Halloran. 22 pages are completed to date. That De Campi calls it as "like a werewolf story… on the moon. A small, multinational team of entrepreneurs and scientists use a failed/abandoned moon resort as a base to retrieve a probe with a sample of comet ice… ice that may contain evidence microscopic alien life. Alien life that can lay dormant in the cold for thousands of years, like tiny tardigrades."

"Once one of the scientific team comes into contact with the microscopic aliens due to a lab accident, the team falls apart. Some see her as a monster that must be killed; others see her as a resource to exploit; while a very few see her as a friend who needs to be saved."

While the second, The Adventures of Scarlett Svenson, is a 56-page all-ages sci-adventure story drawn by Paul Tucker that has been completed and just needs lettering. Alex describes it as "about a young girl who helps her family run a lighthouse on an endless prairie, where corn is farmed by giant harvest-cities that sweep over the plains. Miles across, they never stop their motion, and the lighthouses keep them on track. When a boy falls off the edge of one of those cities, Scarlett has to find the boy and save him before a storm sweeps in, bringing with it certain death if you're caught out in the open. And if they avoid the storm, there's always the not-so-friendly alien wildlife that has come to infest the prairie. Now, we all know that all-ages content doesn't mean all ages can read the book. But with Scarlett, we've aimed for a 2nd grade reading level, with simpler vocabulary and larger letters."

Who's in? 40 backers so far. Well, 41 now…

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