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Boom! Drops The Kickstarter Shoe To Fund Tanpopo Collection

Published Mon, 03 Oct 2011 17:31:07 -0500

Last month, Bleeding Cool told you how France's biggest comics publisher was turning to a social networking fundraising system like Kickstarter to fund projects it might have considered uncommercial otherwise.

This was considered quite shocking by some publishers who viewed this as an admission of incompetence, or lack of publishing will, that publishers should put their money where their mouth is, or what's the point of even being a publisher?

While books like Womanthology are coming through IDW, and Kickstarter projects are being pursued through Image, it's not the publisher itself that are instigating the fundraising efforts.

That changes today.

Boom! Studios have announced that they are pursuing a Kickstarter approach with Camilla d'Errico to fund the publication of hardcover collections of her Tanpopo comic. Earlier issues were self published and the comic is being serliased online for free through MTV Geek.

The next question is.. will this catch on? And which will be the first of the Premier Publishers to blink first?

Here's the promo copy;

The story follows a young girl named Tanpopo who is attached to a strange machine which gives her the entire knowledge of the world, however, she is unable to feel human emotions. Crying out for the chance to feel love, the devilish shape-shifting Kuro hears Tanpopo's plea, and agrees to free her from the machine, and to show her real love, in exchange for her soul.

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