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Dusk Comics Is Superior To Kickstarter

David Doub writes,

Currently Dusk Comics is doing a Kickstarter to raise funds to finish work on the 3rd Volume of our flagship title Dusk. This is our first foray into the crowdsourcing. We've been around for 5 years now and we have seen plenty of different platforms and options come out to get one's comics promoting and/or made and it would be honestly a full time job if we chased after every single new methodology. I know the seductive allure of finding that one process, that one step that just catapults you to success, sadly though that is the exception to the rule that you hear about that hit big. The hard truth is, the truth that hasn't changed and isn't going to anytime soon is, that it's hard work that is going to make your book a success. All the rest, all the Kickstarters, all the digital comics, all the other tools are just that, tools. What I fear is that the tools are now gathering more attention that the content that the tools are meant to deliver. This is backwards, because the tools are totally useless without the content for it to utilize.

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So when Bleeding Cool offered the chance to do another article on my Kickstarter with just a little over a week left to go, I resolved myself to not talk about more on the process of Kickstarter. There are plenty of articles about Kickstarter. Hell, there is a cottage industry built around Kickstarter, so there is very little I can say about Kickstarter that could help further. Besides it's not my job to promote or advertise Kickstarter. Actually it's the other way around. It's Kickstarter's job to promote and advertise Dusk Comics.

And what can I talk about better than anyone else? Why Dusk Comics!

Dusk foremost is a comic I love to write and read so it's good to have a little foundation of who I am to understand where I am coming from. At my core, I am afraid and I crave control, even the illusion of control. So of course my life has handed me some major tragedies to remind me that there is no such thing as control and you have to learn to adapt.

How do Vampires and their mythos fit into this?

Vampires are very much about losing control, about giving into your dark and baser nature. Every day we are assaulted by desires and impulses that are wrong in a civilized culture. So we deny them, we push those taboo wants down. With the fictional Vampire though, they are dead and they are damned, so they have nothing to lose, they are free to wallow in their forbidden wishes. But the vampire does it with panache and style. Anyone can just take what they want by force but it takes skill and talent to seduce something against its will. That is also part of the Vampire story, dance with the flame, getting close to illicit, daring to take a taste but not drowning yourself in it.

So in the 90s as a Marvel Zombie growing up through the awkward teenager years, it wasn't all the new Chromium Covers and all the "Edgy" books from publishers like Image and Chaos at the time that I gravitated toward. I fell in love with all the indy black and white books about vampires and other dark supernatural happenings for small publishers like Millennium Publications, Cry for Dawn Productions, and Rebel Studios.

As I've gotten older and as Young Adult and Romance has taken roost into the dark realm of Horror and Vampires, I still have that need and drive to make messily complicated stories about flawed beasts trying to find salivation or even just a moment's respite in the dark worlds they are forced to inhabit.

That is how I am able to make a bold statement that Dusk is better than Kickstarter. Kickstarter is just a device to generate money to get a business or product starter. Dusk is a fevered dream, born for all my suffering and experience, and humbly presented to you so that it may entertain and distract from the humdrum of the mundane drone of everyday life. Come escape into the shadows that is Dusk.

Art below is by Sean Carner – http://dirkmaximus.com/

Letters by Joamette Gil – http://joamettegil.com/

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Rich JohnstonAbout Rich Johnston

Founder of Bleeding Cool. The longest-serving digital news reporter in the world, since 1992. Author of The Flying Friar, Holed Up, The Avengefuls, Doctor Who: Room With A Deja Vu, The Many Murders Of Miss Cranbourne, Chase Variant. Lives in South-West London, works from Blacks on Dean Street, shops at Piranha Comics. Father of two. Political cartoonist.
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